USC ACADEMICS DELIBERATELY USE DECEIT IN POLL TO MISLEAD PUBLIC

Instead of a search for the truth, this poll appears to have been designed to obtain results that the professors wanted

The intellectually dishonest and deceitful professors had to know that there are really no “non-serious, non-violent, non-sex-offenders” in prison, but designed their poll to make the public think otherwise.

Richard Krupp, a former high-ranking CDCR official, says on PACOVILLA, “I took a quick look at the survey questions that range from school funding to fracking to gay marriage to sending people to prison. This was put together by a political campaign survey group and mainly looks at political campaign issues. This is defiantly not a legitimate source of information. You can phrase questions to get certain responses either by intention or ignorance. The poll is worthless.”

As for the classification of crimes, Dave Freeman says on PACOVILLA, “I have often said that, if we would just change our laws…that is…make every criminal act a misdemeanor…and do so retroactively…we could shut down our prisons altogether and end serious crime with the stroke of a pen. Just think of it! No more prisons. No more serious crime! It would be a liberal utopia. And think of the money we would save!”

4N’S: MAJORITY SUPPORTS RELEASE OF NON-EXISTENT 3N’S
Despite lack of prison lightweights, set them free!

By Jeff ‘Paco’ Doyle

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
June 10, 2013

According to a poll conducted jointly by USC's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles Times, the citizenry of California is prepared to release “non-violent offenders” and reduce the sentences for “minor crimes” in order to comply with the Courts' reduction order. Yet, we have been led to believe the lot of minor offenders has already been depleted. Just how many 3N's are housed in CDCR today?

The answer, of course, is the same as it was before Jerry Brown's regrettable return: NONE.

When the premise of a poll is flawed, the study's subjects answer the questions just the same. Thus, when citizens are asked if they favor releasing “non-violent offenders,” they answer truthfully, regardless of the false premise presented. And, who doesn't think 3N's don't belong in prison? Surely, the results of this poll were inevitable and predictable before a single person responded.

To be blunt, non-serious, non-violent, non-sex-offenders are, and have always been, misdemeanants. Notwithstanding AB109, CDCR continues to house only serious, convicted felons, the overwhelming majority of which are NOT first time offenders–CDCR is filled with criminals who, when free, commit countless crimes, including those of the violent variety. We can change definitions all we want, these people will continue their activities without delay–Perhaps we would be better served to redefine crime itself. Violence may need to be redefined as well.

Currently, a felony is BY DEFINITION a serious crime. “Felonies are serious crimes, such as murder, rape, or burglary, punishable by a harsher sentence than that given for a misdemeanor” (http://definitions.uslegal.com). Misdemeanors are minor, non-violent offenses. In fact, the term is a self-defining phrase: it is a failure to maintain the proper behavior or demeanor. Insofar as CDCR is barred by law from housing misdemeanants, no inmates may be released under the auspices of “3N” unless they are re-sentenced, their charges reduced to misdemeanors.

So, with all due respect to the respondents, they don't know what they are talking about. The same cannot be said for those who assembled the premise-challenged poll–Surely academicians have access to the penal code, CDCR population charts and, well, facts. The Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences ought to consult these and conduct a 2nd survey focusing on actual conditions, not propaganda.

In closing, FACTS: There are no 3N's in prison–The law prohibits it. Non-violent, Non-serious, Non-sex-offender? Non-existent!