Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145% capacity.

County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145% capacity. LOS ANGELES - In a decisive move to enhance public safety, Los Angeles ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed Proposition 36. He claims it will bring California back to the 1980s when mass ...

Vice President Kamala Harris won't say how she voted on a ballot measure in her home state of California that would reverse ...

The race for Los Angeles County district attorney will likely determine whether a challenge to the law will be heard by the state Supreme Court, or dropped. And Proposition 36, if it passes ...

Proposition 36 would roll back some of the reforms contained in Proposition 47, the measure approved by voters in 2014 that reduced penalties for most drug possession crimes and petty theft.

Here's how California voted on statewide measures in the 2024 election, including Proposition 36 on retail theft and fentanyl ...

Yet, in 2024, Proposition 36’s supporters are still pushing the ... to cut services to increase spending on incarceration. In Los Angeles, for example, $59 million from Prop 47 savings has ...

Less than two weeks out from the election, polls don’t matter. What matters is who is going to vote. We are leaving nothing ...

To the editor: A letter writer complained that Proposition 36 would “drag California ... in the numbers of homicides in the city of Los Angeles falling from more than 1,000 in 1992 to a little ...