Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris has remained silent about whether she will vote in favor of a ballot measure focused on cracking down on drug and property crimes in California, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Harris campaign has declined to comment on how she will vote on Proposition 36, a tough-on-crime ballot initiative aimed at drug and theft offenses that would scale back Proposition 47, according to the LA Times. The state’s Proposition 47 is a measure that was introduced in 2014 which reclassified some felonies as misdemeanors, and Harris did not take a stand on Proposition 47 when she was California attorney general but did support another ballot initiative about removing money from politics, Proposition 59, according to the LA times.
The majority of California residents support implementing harsher penalties for repeat theft and drug-related offenses. About 56% of Californians agree with Proposition 36, according to a poll released in August from UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies that was co-sponsored by the LA Times.
California has continued to deal with various issues including crime and rising homelessness rates. Experts have called out misleading non-violent crime data released by the state. […]
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