Become a Crime Scene Investigator: Crime Survivors Are Organizing. They Want Criminal Justice Reform, Too.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Crime Survivors Are Organizing. They Want Criminal Justice Reform, Too.

Change has come to the criminal justice system in America’s most populous state. California’s arrest rate last year dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, the result of a voter-approved initiative to reclassify several nonviolent felonies as misdemeanors. Funds saved by the drop in arrests are being shifted to other priorities like victim services and mental health treatment. Meanwhile, state residents with criminal records are currently benefitting from the largest opportunity in U.S. history to remove certain felonies from their records. Supporting these policy changes is a first-of-its-kind statewide network of crime victims, including survivors of violent crimes, …
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The 1990s version of Hillary Clinton had a very different idea of criminal justice reform than does the 2016 version of Hillary Clinton.

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