Deincarceration California Style:  As has been noted many times on this blog, most serious and violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders.  Since the mid-1990s, a proven formula for reducing crime was adopted both locally and nationally with great success.  The ingredients were targeted proactive policing and progressive sentencing.   Over the past decade, in response to claims by academics, activists, and liberal politicians that these policies targeted minorities and condemned otherwise upstanding citizens to decades in prison for minor offenses, several big cities and some states adopted reforms backing off policing and reducing sentences for habitual criminals.  California has been a leader in this movement, adopting four major sentencing reduction laws and numerous local policies limiting policing over the past eight years.  The most recent of these is Proposition 57, adopted in 2016 after a multi-million dollar publicity campaign convinced voters that it would only allow for early parole for well-behaved inmates convicted of non-violent crimes.  Almost immediately, district attorneys reported that a car thief, wife beater, or drug dealer eligible for early parole under this law could have prior convictions for rape or even murder.  Governor Brown, who helped finance the initiative along with George Soros, claimed that this was flat wrong.  Last week, NBC Los Angeles reported that the Governor was the one who was flat wrong, noting that numerous inmates with priors for crimes like murder and violent assault have been granted parole under Proposition 57.  Prosecutor Michele Hanisee, President of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys (ADDA) for Los Angeles, told reporters that the public was duped by the proposition's supporters.  "It's very clear they intended to release violent offenders by re-describing them, despite their crimes, as nonviolent offenders."   Both the news story and the ADDA blog cite examples of the kinds of criminals now considered non-violent and eligible for early parole.