CA Poll Finds Crime and Homelessness Top Concerns:  A recent poll of registered California voters reports that 79% believe that homelessness and criminal behavior are major concerns that state politicians should address. 73% reported that street crime has become a serious problem and 60% say they no longer feel safe today.  The wide ranging poll conducted in late September by the California Chamber of Commerce also asked respondents for their views on job creation, the economy, housing, and quality of life issues in the Golden State.  Over the past eight years the state has rolled out aggressive criminal justice reforms, with voter support for ballot measures decreasing sentences such as Propositions 47 and 57.  The recent poll indicates that the public now believes that there is more crime in their communities and that it is threatening their safety.  A report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau tends to support this concern finding that five of the nation's ten metropolitan areas with the highest rate of auto thefts were in California.  No other state had more than one. 

Mexican Nationals Charged in Officer's Murder:  Two citizens of Mexico have been arrested and charged in last Wednesday's murder of El Dorado County Sheriffs Deputy Brian Ishmael.  Lloyd Billingsley of the California Globe reports that Deputy Ishmael was responding to a call regarding theft at a marijuana grow when the suspects opened fire, killing him.  Carlos Vazquez-Orozco, 20 and Romiro Bravo Morales, 22, were taken into custody for the shooting.  A third man, the owner of what turned out to be an illegal marijuana farm, was also arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter.  Due to California's sanctuary state law (SB54), the El Dorado County Sheriff suggested that the immigration status of the two shooters was not available to his office, but ICE officials told the Globe that the legal status of the suspects would be determined.  The murdered deputy, 37, leaves a wife and three daughters behind.  

UPDATE:  KCRA reports that the two Mexicans charged with killing Deputy Ishmael are illegal aliens.