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How few crimes are ever solved by the police and prosecuted by the DA. |
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How little prison time convicted criminals really serve for felony crimes in California and around the |
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Whether career criminals really suffer from low self-esteem. |
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How the criminal justice system really works. |
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Illegal aliens convicted in this country of child molestation, and other serious felonies, are often released |
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from our prisons and jails back into our communities instead of being deported. |
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About 630,000 illegal aliens enter our nation's jails and prisons each year for crimes committed in this |
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country. |
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For thirteen years in California (1965-1978), the state paid the counties $4,000 for each convicted felon |
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who was not sentenced to state prison. |
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About one-third of those arrested for felony crimes in Los Angeles County are not prosecuted by the DA. |
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Between 1960 and 2002, there were an estimated 200,000 unsolved murders in this country, and |
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the number of unsolved murders, nationally, grows by about 6,000 each year. |
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In the first ten years of the Three-Strikes law (1994–2004), California’s crime rate fell 45%, the steepest |
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decline in crime rates in the nation for that period. |
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More people have been murdered in this country between 1960 and 2003 than all the Americans killed in |
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World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq |
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combined. |
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If a Mexican national, illegally in the U.S., commits murder in the U.S. and flees to Mexico, the Mexican |
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government has, for many years, refused to send him back to the U.S. to face trial if the accused murderer |
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could face either the death penalty or life in prison. |
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About 90% of all defendants charged with felony crimes in Los Angeles County plead guilty, and only |
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about 2% of defendants ask for a jury trial. |
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In California, a conviction for soliciting someone's murder is not a strike under the Three Strikes law, |
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because this crime is not designated as either a "serious" or "violent" felony. |
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There will always be “plea bargaining” in big cities regardless of what any candidate for district attorney |
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promises the public. |
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That because of affirmative action quotas, the Los Angeles Police Department hired a person to be a |
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police officer who they knew had been arrested five times for felony crimes, and had been convicted of |
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attempted burglary. The city later paid $1.7 million to people victimized by this officer. |
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