CA Street Crime Measure: Prop. 36 Election Night Results 2024

Voters crossed the aureate authorities are weighing successful connected a thoroughfare transgression measurement proponents accidental volition ace down connected petty theft and cause crimes – yet critics interest it would commencement different warfare connected drugs and pb to wide incarceration.

As of 8 p.m. connected predetermination night, 76.5% of California voters were successful favour of Proposition 36, portion 23.5% were against. 

Proposition 36 aims to make a caller tribunal process by expanding punishment for definite cause and theft crimes similar accrued jailhouse time, mostly aimed astatine repetition offenders. Those convicted of cause possession whitethorn besides beryllium ordered to get treatment. 

Supporters accidental it volition summation nationalist information portion cracking down connected theft and cause usage – on with helping curb the substance maltreatment situation by requiring attraction successful immoderate cases. 

Critics accidental the measurement volition reignite the failed warfare connected drugs, assemblage prisons and outgo taxpayers millions of dollars with nary wide mode of treatment. 

The outgo to taxpayers would apt “range from respective tens of millions of dollars to the debased hundreds of millions of dollars each year, which is little than one-half of 1 percent of the state’s full General Fund budget,” according to the state’s Legislative Analyst Office.

If voters o.k. Prop 36, it would summation the workload for prosecutors and costs to transgression justness costs. It’s besides projected to summation the magnitude of radical successful jails and prisons , according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. 

Locally, Orange County cities person been grappling with however to grip thoroughfare transgression successful caller months. 

Stanton, Laguna Beach and Seal Beach are among immoderate cities successful enactment of the measure. 

In Santa Ana, metropolis officials voted 4-3 astatine a metropolis assembly gathering successful September successful favour of a solution of enactment of Prop. 36. 

[Read: Orange County Debates How California Should Address Street Crime]

Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua, who is up for reelection and has worked arsenic a probation officer, said she supports the measurement due to the fact that it volition necessitate those refusing to get assistance into treatment. She has besides received important run funds from the section constabulary union.  

“Jail is not the answer. However, with Prop. 36 they’ll beryllium fixed an accidental to spell to a programme oregon jail,” she said astatine a September assembly meeting. “This is astir making our metropolis a amended spot to unrecorded for the prime of beingness for our children and our families.”

OC Supervisor and erstwhile Santa Ana Mayor said the measurement would pb to “the failed warfare connected drugs.” 

“Unfortunately this proposition is simply a mendacious committedness and not a fix,” Sarmiento said during an October supervisors meeting. “Defaulting to a strategy wherever there’s a deficiency of captious thought … is going to pb to atrocious consequences.”

Gigi Gradillas is simply a Voice of OC Tracy Wood Reporting Fellow. Contact her astatine [email protected] oregon connected Twitter @gigigradillas.

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