San Bernardino sees Uptick in Homicides: San Bernardino, Calif., has had seven homicides in nine days, a pattern police Chief Jarrod Burguan says is "more than numbers." Doug Saunders of the San Bernardino County Sun reports that the city has logged 24 homicides so far this year, all of which have either been drug- or gang-related. Last year, there was only a total of 44 homicides for the entire year, including the 14 who were killed in the terrorist shooting at the Inland Regional Center on Dec. 2. San Bernardino police officials believe the "underlying causes trace to the passage" of AB 109 and Proposition 47. AB 109 was implemented in 2011 by Gov. Jerry Brown in an effort to reduce prison overcrowding by diverting several inmates from state prisons to county jails, resulting in early releases. Prop. 47, passed by voters in 2014, lessened the sentences of several felony property and drug offenses.
Obama admin Fails to Screen Social Media of Refugees: Despite promises made following last year's terrorist attack in San Bernardino, the Obama administration is not effectively screening the social media profiles of all Syrian refugees. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that the government is 8,370 refugees short of its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees, with just over five months left in the fiscal year, sparking concern that the administration will reduce screening even more to accelerate the process. In order to meet the president's intended target, 75 applications would have to be approved every workday for the remainder of the fiscal year -- nearly seven times the average so far. Last year, one of the San Bernardino attackers was found to be an immigrant who had posted her desire to wage jihad on media. Though her post was not public, the president acknowledged that social media messages should be screened. While Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez insisted months ago that it was increasing its monitoring, another USCIS official confirmed Tuesday that "the agency has not reached that point."
Prop. 47 Shows More Failure than Success: Local governments in California are searching for solutions to Proposition 47, described by most law enforcement officers as "the biggest public safety disaster in the last several decades." Lauren King of the Woodland Daily Democrat reports that state voters passed the measure in 2014 reducing "nonserious and nonviolent property and drug crimes" from felonies to misdemeanors and allowing previous convicts of such crimes to apply for reduced sentences. In the first half of 2015, compared to 2014, California had the greatest increase in property crime, according to a report released by the Public Policy Institute of California, compiled from the FBI's crime statistics. Specifically, San Francisco property crime jumped 66% while Sacramento became number one in the nation for violent crime. Overall, the state claimed six of the nations top 10 cities with the biggest increases in crime after Prop. 47's passage. Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig says one of the measure's greatest flaws is its failure to mandate drug rehabilitation. He acknowledges that there may be "a few success stories" to come out of the measure, but far more people have become victims because of it.
Obama admin Fails to Screen Social Media of Refugees: Despite promises made following last year's terrorist attack in San Bernardino, the Obama administration is not effectively screening the social media profiles of all Syrian refugees. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that the government is 8,370 refugees short of its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees, with just over five months left in the fiscal year, sparking concern that the administration will reduce screening even more to accelerate the process. In order to meet the president's intended target, 75 applications would have to be approved every workday for the remainder of the fiscal year -- nearly seven times the average so far. Last year, one of the San Bernardino attackers was found to be an immigrant who had posted her desire to wage jihad on media. Though her post was not public, the president acknowledged that social media messages should be screened. While Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez insisted months ago that it was increasing its monitoring, another USCIS official confirmed Tuesday that "the agency has not reached that point."
Prop. 47 Shows More Failure than Success: Local governments in California are searching for solutions to Proposition 47, described by most law enforcement officers as "the biggest public safety disaster in the last several decades." Lauren King of the Woodland Daily Democrat reports that state voters passed the measure in 2014 reducing "nonserious and nonviolent property and drug crimes" from felonies to misdemeanors and allowing previous convicts of such crimes to apply for reduced sentences. In the first half of 2015, compared to 2014, California had the greatest increase in property crime, according to a report released by the Public Policy Institute of California, compiled from the FBI's crime statistics. Specifically, San Francisco property crime jumped 66% while Sacramento became number one in the nation for violent crime. Overall, the state claimed six of the nations top 10 cities with the biggest increases in crime after Prop. 47's passage. Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig says one of the measure's greatest flaws is its failure to mandate drug rehabilitation. He acknowledges that there may be "a few success stories" to come out of the measure, but far more people have become victims because of it.
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