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| October
1, 2004 |
| It
was ten
years ago
that the
voters of
California
passed the
Three
Strikes Law.
The basic
idea behind
Three
Strikes was
to get the
repeat
criminals
off the
streets so
they could
not continue
committing
crimes...read
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| October
14, 2004 |
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| With
polls showing
Californians
overwhelmingly
supporting the
common-sense
“three
strikes” reforms
of Proposition 66,
opponents are
desperately
ratcheting up
their phony fear...read
more |
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| Sunday
October 10, 2004 |
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| Ten
years after California
enacted the "three
strikes" law to
crack down hard on
repeat offenders, the
state's crime rate has
fallen nearly by half.
This is a clear example
of a law that is
working, and the
"reformers"
pushing Proposition 66
are messing with
success, right...read
more |
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| October
5, 2004 |
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| L.A.
Times Editorial: "Vote
for Three-Strikes Reform...read
more |
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| Monday
September 19, 2004 |
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| Eleven
years ago, a 12-year-old Petaluma
girl was kidnapped from her own
bedroom, dragged into the nearby
woods and murdered. When it was
learned that Polly Klaas' killer was
a lifelong criminal on parole, the
anger people felt over the crime
turned into outrage at a system that
had allowed her killer, Richard
Allen Davis, to be released from
prison over and over again...read
more |
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| Sunday
September 19, 2004 |
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| TEN
YEARS is an appropriate time span to
assess the effectiveness of a law. The
"three strikes" sentencing law,
passed by voters in 1994, is proving
costly to taxpayers and unfair in its
administration of justice...read
more |
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| Sunday
September, 19, 2004 |
| When
California voters passed the Three Strikes
initiative a decade ago, they were fed up
with high crime rates. As often happens
with initiatives, they overreacted...read
more |
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