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Coalition for Effective Public Safety (CEPS) is a California-based criminal justice reform coalition of approximately 40 organizations united behind specific principles aimed at increasing public safety in California while curtailing the reliance upon costly, ineffective practices such as mass incarceration.
California voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to reverse course on progressive criminal justice reform, cracking down on theft crimes and the use of the deadly drug fentanyl.
Statewide, violent crime rose by 15% from 2020 to 2023, according to California Department of Justice data, while property crime jumped about 5.5%. Property crimes began to decrease in 2023 in 46 ...
It appears to be the end of a long period of criminal justice reform that started when prison populations in the U.S. reached global highs in 2007. ... $1.7 million throughout Southern California ...
The following is a list of criminal justice reform organizations in the ... Northern California Innocence Project ... Californians for Safety and Justice; Coalition ...
The Coalition for Public Safety is a bipartisan coalition of progressive and conservative American advocacy groups dedicated to criminal justice reform, established in February 2015. Members [ edit ]
In 2020, the JusticeLA coalition opposed 2020 California Proposition 25, which would have eliminated the state's cash bail system. [1] The coalition took the position that the new law would have expanded the power of judges to incarcerate people pretrial and would have expanded the use of racially-biased pretrial risk assessment tools. [ 25 ]
Since at least 2009, when a panel of three federal judges ordered California to reduce its dangerously overcrowded prisons, the Golden State has been trying to reform its criminal justice system.