California Sheriff Torches Newsom, Says State’s Soft-On-Crime Ballot Measure ‘Lied To’ Voters

A California sheriff who is championing an effort to roll back the state’s 2014 proposition that reduced the penalties for certain crimes slammed Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), saying that voters had been “lied to and misled by our state.” In 2014, California passed Proposition 47, which altered some low-level crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. “According to state data obtained by KQED, about 15% of theft cases resulted in an arrest in 2013, the year before Proposition 47 passed. In 2022, that number had dropped to 6.6%. That means in more...