Crime rates peak and start decreasing all across the nation, including California.
Kimber Reynolds is killed by convicted felon Joe Davis in front of 24 witnesses after she resisted his taking of her purse. Early 1993 Reynolds has Bill Jones, Republican Assemblyman from the Fresno area, sponsor Assembly Bill 971. The committee soundly defeated the bill. Summer of 1993 Reynolds decides to by-pass the legislature and use the initiative process. Repeat offender Richard Allen Davis kidnaps Polly Klaas.