A report from the Legislative Analyst's Office examined the impacts of statewide laws, and the potential effects of new ...

The battle lines are being drawn in a bitter feud between centrist Democrats and progressives in California over changes to Proposition ... calling it an "expensive" crime reform that would ...

Voters this November overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which both modifies and adds key changes to California law ... exploded due to tough-on-crime policies dating back to the 1980s.

An analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California found violent crime dropped 4.6% in 2024 compared to the previous year, while property crime fell 8.5%. The institute examined Real Time ...

Ten years ago, California voters passed Prop 47 to downgrade the possession of hard drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor, then continued to pass soft-on-crime proposals aimed at reinventing the ...

Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment ... to misdemeanors. Those changes are now up for reconsideration with Prop. 36. So while California didn’t simply open its prison ...

A new national survey shows some major California ... violent crime rose year-over-year in some categories but fell in others. Officials in San Jose attributed the changes to a new reporting ...

Los Angeles County prosecutors must speed up the filing of felony charges against persons accused of sex crimes or violence against family members, according to a new policy announcement Thursday.

California experienced a slight increase in violent crime last year, according to the latest survey by the nonpartisan research group, Public Policy Institute of California. The institute analyzed ...