As local law-enforcement leaders, we're alarmed about these bills in Sacramento - Yahoo News

As Riverside County's top law-enforcement officials, we want to warn the public about proposed state laws that would endanger our communities.

And we need your help to stop them.

In recent years, the California Legislature has enacted a wide range of laws impacting criminal justice which have ushered in a regrettable period of lawlessness, homelessness, and a general degradation of public safety.

These laws have allowed violent criminals back on the streets, hindered investigations and prosecutions of gang members, and have effectively decriminalized acts that now plague our neighborhoods, businesses, and daily news feeds.

The 2022 California legislative session began Jan. 3. The slate of criminal justice laws being considered can be described as nothing less than pro-criminal and anti-public-safety, including one that would allow “safe zones” in some cities where hard narcotics could be used legally.

Other measures recently proposed, though not passed by the Legislature, would have decriminalized date-rape drugs, provided sanctuary state status to convicted child molesters and established $0 bail.

These are but a few pieces of conscience-shocking legislation our current lawmakers have proposed and, in some cases, are still considering.

The group I lead, the Association of Riverside County Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs, is made up of the 18 city police chiefs, chief probation officer, sheriff, undersheriff and district attorney.

For decades, we have quietly collaborated with our federal, state and local partners on programs to keep the residents of Riverside County safe. But now that the direct threat to public safety increasingly comes from the passage of dangerous state laws, we are obligated to warn you about them and ask for your assistance.

On our newly published web site ARCCOPS.com, in a section entitled “Public Safety Ratings for Our Elected Officials,” we analyze and grade the voting records of state legislators from Riverside County with regard to public safety bills.

source: https://news.yahoo.com/local-law-enforcement-leaders-were-230108920.html

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