You might think that the leftists who run California would be worried about the rapid decline of that state, but no: they are doing all they can to accelerate it.
In the Wall Street Journal, Heather Mac Donald outlines California's latest descent into racialist madness: What would happen if lawmakers reinvented the criminal-justice system to target "Systemic racism" instead of crime? California is about to find out.
Thanks to a 2020 law called the California Racial Justice Act, every felon serving time in the state's prisons and jails can now retroactively challenge his conviction and sentencing on the ground of systemic bias.
Heather has some of the numbers for California: In Los Angeles, blacks are 21 times as likely as whites to commit a violent crime, 36 times as likely to commit a robbery, and 57 times as likely to commit a homicide, according to police department data.
The Racial Justice Act is turning California' criminal justice system into a farce: When a felon in San Francisco contested his arrest and prosecution for having a loaded handgun in his car, a "Race expert" testified that the arresting officer's use of the phrase "High crime area" demonstrated "Bias against people of color." The trial judge disagreed, but an appeals court reversed and allowed the felon's claim to proceed.
The black comparison group in the case was made up of 30 black defendants who had also committed gang murder in Contra Costa County from 2015 to 2022 and who had also received life without parole.
If, for some reason, you still live in California, you should get out while you can.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/california-is-about-to-get-even-worse.php
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