Antonio Villaraigosa on Crime

	Antonio Villaraigosa on Crime

Reduced violent crime by 50%; increased size of LAPD

To mark his time as mayor, his staff put together a 60-page book, titled "Straight from the Heart of L.A." that details his accomplishments over the past eight years. Among the accomplishments:

reducing violent crime by 50%
reducing gang crime by 43%
expanding the LAPD to 10,000 officers.

Source: Huffington Post on 2014 California Governor race , Jun 23, 2013

Reduce prison population & deal with recidivism

Over the last six years, we have made incredible progress in public safety. We must balance our budgets, and protect our people. We should start a discussion and drive an effort toward a sound solution that addresses our long-term prison population problem, and our short-term need to keep our streets safe. We can solve this issue together. We need a plan in CA to ease our prison population. We need a strategy to deal with recidivism. We need to examine our sentencing laws to be sure they work. Source: 2011 L.A. Mayoral press release #015590 , Oct 3, 2011

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