2024 CA Senate race: on Crime


Steve Garvey: The best way to deter crime is to enforce our laws

We need to return to common-sense policies that hold criminals accountable, protect our victims, and places the safety of our families before politics. Our police departments need to be funded, our communities need to be engaged, and we must do all we can to make sure our neighborhoods and schools are safe. Make no mistake, the best way to deter crime is to enforce our laws, and I will lead the charge to make sure our laws are followed.
Source: 2024 California Senate campaign website SteveGarvey.com Jan 2, 2024

Steve Garvey: Ensure that those locked up are not immediately freed

Praising the Golden State's "hardworking police and sheriffs" who are "committed to serving the people and providing peace," Garvey said there must be more done to ensure that those who are getting locked up are not immediately freed. "They're putting their lives on the line, taking these criminals to the jails and getting them registered and doing the paperwork and looking out the window and seeing them walk through the parking lot because the DAs have let them go," Garvey said.
Source: FOX News on 2024 California Senate race Dec 31, 2023

Laphonza Butler: $80 million in federal funds for CA crime victims

Senator Butler boasted that she had "secured wins for California," and cited as one of her achievements $1.3 billion for the federal fund to help crime victims. While that figure is accurate, Butler failed to say the funding is a steep drop from funding the previous year and the year prior to that. And her claim--which suggested all the money would go to California--was perhaps misleading. The $1.3 billion will go to help crime victims across the country. California will receive only some of those funds--possibly between $80 and $100 million, according to state Office of Emergency Services estimates.

In that bill, Congress allocated $1.3 billion for the federal Victims of Crime Fund in this fiscal year. The amount was somewhat of a win for advocates since it was $153 million above President Joe Biden's request--but it was less than the fund's $2.6 billion in 2022 and $1.9 billion last year. The drop came because the fund gets its money from penalties for federal criminal convictions.

Source: Sacramento Bee on 2024 California Senate race Apr 1, 2024

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Candidates and political leaders on Crime:
Candidates for President & Vice-President:
V.P.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.(I-CA)
Chase Oliver(L-GA)
Dr.Jill Stein(D-MA)
Former Pres.Donald Trump(R-FL)
Sen.J.D.Vance(R-OH)
Gov.Tim Walz(D-MN)
Dr.Cornel West(I-NJ) 		2024 presidential primary contenders:
Pres.Joe_Biden(D-DE)
N.D.Gov.Doug Burgum(R)
N.J.Gov.Chris_Christie(R)
Fla.Gov.Ron_DeSantis(R)
S.C.Gov.Nikki_Haley(R)
Ark.Gov.Asa_Hutchinson(R)
Former V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
U.S.Rep.Dean_Phillips(D-MN)
Vivek_Ramaswamy(R-OH)
S.C.Sen.Tim_Scott(R)
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