California's felony arrest rate among juveniles dropped 30 percent from 1991 to 1998. During that time, the arrests of juveniles for murder fell by more than 50 percent, according to the California Department of Justice. Proposition 21 will not stop crime. Instead, it will take valuable funds away from programs that could. She is beaten, brutally raped, sodomized and left for dead in a field.
Shots ring out in a parking lot.
The bullets rip through a car, killing a mother, father and their infant. A gang member aiming for a rival. These fictitious accounts are a sample of the filth we read in the newspapers or see on the television everyday. When we pass Proposition 21 - the initiative that would toughen the penalties on those types of crimes. It would also require adult trials for juveniles 14 years old or older who are charged with murder or specified sex offenses.