Government,
Criminal
Jun. 13, 2017
Longer sentences make us more secure
Ill-conceived measures to lower the prison population at the expense of public safety should be recognized for what they are -- misleading titles, false claims and outright lies -- and voted down.
Eric Siddall
Deputy District Attorney
Los Angeles District Attorney's Office
211 W Temple St Fl 11
Los Angeles , CA 90012-4455
Eric is vice president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, the collective bargaining agent representing nearly 800 deputy district attorneys who work for the County of Los Angeles. The opinions expressed here are the author's own and do not reflect the views of his employer or any other organization.
LAW & ORDER
Sacramento politicians have been busy the past few years passing ill-conceived measures to lower the prison population at the expense of public safety. These measures have been accompanied by misleading titles, false claims, and, as most recently documented by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, outright lies.
A major premise behind these reforms is the notion that long prison sentences for violent criminals do not ...
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