CDCR, in an apparent response to severe criticism of the state’s prison realignment program, has just released a report that declares realignment a success. CDCR’s glowing report offers as proof of realignment’ success the fact that ‘arrest rates are down’ since the inception of the program.
The Kern County prosecutor’s office was quick to slam CDCR’s report, declaring that in Kern County, there's been more crime since realignment. “Crime is clearly on the rise, and the only change in the criminal justice system during this time has been realignment.”
And Bob Walsh has a good explanation of why there might be fewer arrests: “If the measure of success is less arrests, that makes it real easy to be successful. You just tell your folks to quit arresting people. Oh, wait. We do that already. Instant success. Unless of course you are one of the crime victims, but what the hell do they know about anything anyway?”
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