Pubdate: Wed, 04 Feb 2015
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2015 Los Angeles Times
Contact:  http://www.latimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n067/a08.html
Author: Ken Treadway

DRUGS AND JAILS

Re "Prop. 47 is working, but jury still out," Column, Jan. 31

Proposition 47 does not shield people who commit serious crimes. Drug 
addicts are not automatically exonerated if they beat someone, use a 
gun or commit rape.

Proposition 47 addresses those who might be incarcerated just for 
drug use. Violent criminals are not off the hook.

If police in Santa Clarita are using this flimsy logic not to do 
their job and go after real criminals in a neighborhood that 
residents say is under siege by meth addicts, then we do have a real 
problem, but not the one Banks describes. Are those officers, using 
that same logic, also afraid of going after meth dealers as well?

When I don't keep up my lawn, I'll tell my homeowners association 
it's because of Proposition 47.

Ken Treadway

Temecula
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