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(CN) A California lawmaker teamed up with the Los Angeles district attorney Friday to announce a bill that would reform how juvenile crimes are counted in statewide sentencing practices.
California Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, unveiled Assembly Bill 1127, which if passed and signed into law would exclude crimes committed by juveniles from the state’s Three Strikes law. The law mandates a 25 year to life sentence for individuals convicted of three serious or violent felonies.
“For kids to have an action taken into consideration once they’re older means they are doing 25 to life and it makes no sense,” Santiago said during a virtual press conference.
Justice bills progressing in California legislature
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The Los Angeles specialist Hardcore Gang unit has been disbanded because it is offensive to the community in a move branded a suicide pact amid rising homicide rates in the city.
For over four decades the Hardcore Gang Investigation Unit has been tasked with prosecuting the city s most serious and violent gang-related crimes.
But the County District Attorney s Office has decided to downsize and rename the unit which has been praised by BLM activists but criticized by prosecutors.
The office will be decentralized under plans by DA George Gascon with specialist officers transferred to other units despite its 700 active cases.
Nightmare : Los Angeles DA To Dissolve Or Downsize Hardcore Gangs, Major Narcotics Units
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