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V*10110j1Eel 0f��➢��1>:�:�5 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA SUPPORTING THE REDUCING CRIME AND KEEPING CALIFORNIA SAFE ACT OF 2020 WHEREAS, protecting every person in our state, including our most vulnerable children, from violent crime is of the utmost importance. Murderers, rapists, child molesters and other violent criminals should not be released early from prison; and WHERAS, since 2014, California has had a larger increase in violent crime than the rest of the United States: and WHEREAS, since 2013, violent crime in Los Angeles has increased 69.5% and violent crime in Sacramento rose faster during the first six months of 2015 than in any of the 25 largest U.S. cities tracked by the FBI; and WHEREAS, the FBI Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report for 2017, which tracks crimes committed during the first six months of the past year in U.S. cities with populations over 100,000 indicates that last year violent crime increased again in most of California's largest cities; and WHEREAS, recent changes to parole laws allow the early release of dangerous criminals by the law's failure to define certain crimes as "violent," and these changes allowed individuals convicted of sex trafficking of children, rape of an unconscious person, felony assault with a deadly weapon, and felony domestic violence to be considered "nonviolent" offenders; and WHEREAS, as a result, these "nonviolent" offenders are eligible for early release from prison after serving only a fraction of the sentence ordered by a judge; and WHEREAS, violent offenders are also being allowed to remain free in our communities even when they commit new crimes and violate the terms of their post release community supervision; and WHEREAS, the Reducing Crime and Keeping California Safe Act of 2018 ("Act") reforms the law so felons who violate the terms of their release can be brought back to court and held accountable for such violations; and WHEREAS, nothing in the Act is intended to create additional "strike" offenses which would increase the state prison population; nor is it intended to affect the ability of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award educational and merit credits; and WHEREAS, recent changes to California law allow individuals who steal repeatedly to face few consequences, regardless of their criminal record or how many times they steal; and Resolution No. 2020-XXX Page 1 of 60C-3