SACRAMENTO – (INT) – Riverside County State Senator Jeff Stone says the slaying of a veteran Whittier Police officer by a paroled gang member underlines the danger “created by the passage of misleading Propositions and bad Legislation that have allowed dangerous criminals back onto the streets of California”.

Stone noted that since the passage of Proposition 47 by voters in 2014 and the signing of AB 109 in 2011, violent crime has been on the rise in California, up 12 percent in 2015.

Whittier Police Chief Jeff Piper said, 'We need to wake up. Enough is enough. You're passing these propositions; you're creating these laws that are raising crime.'

Senator Stone added that passage of Proposition 57 last November will only make things worse.

AB 109 allowed for the release from local jails of some non-violent offenders to ease jail overcrowding.

When those serving a prison sentence for a "realignment" crime are released, they are to be supervised by county probation officers under a new scheme called Post-release Community Supervision (PRCS) instead of by state parole agents.

Under jail realignment, thousands of county jail inmates were released early.

Story Date: February 26, 2017