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RESOLUTION 2020-073 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />SANTA ANA SUPPORTING THE REDUCING CRIME AND <br />KEEPING CALIFORNIA SAFE ACT OF 2020 <br />WHEREAS, protecting every person in our state, including our most vulnerable <br />children, from violent crime is of the utmost importance. Murderers, rapists, child <br />molesters and other violent criminals should not be released early from prison; and <br />WHERAS, since 2014, California has had a larger increase in violent crime than <br />the rest of the United States: and <br />WHEREAS, since 2013, violent crime in Los Angeles has increased 69.5% and <br />violent crime in Sacramento rose faster during the first six months of 2015 than in any of <br />the 25 largest U.S. cities tracked by the FBI; and <br />WHEREAS, the FBI Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report for 2017, <br />which tracks crimes committed during the first six months of the past year in U.S. cities <br />with populations over 100,000 indicates that last year violent crime increased again in <br />most of California's largest cities; and <br />WHEREAS, recent changes to parole laws allow the early release of dangerous <br />criminals by the law's failure to define certain crimes as "violent," and these changes <br />allowed individuals convicted of sex trafficking of children, rape of an unconscious person, <br />felony assault with a deadly weapon, and felony domestic violence to be considered <br />"nonviolent" offenders; and <br />WHEREAS, as a result, these "nonviolent" offenders are eligible for early release <br />from prison after serving only a fraction of the sentence ordered by a judge; and <br />WHEREAS, violent offenders are also being allowed to remain free in our <br />communities even when they commit new crimes and violate the terms of their post <br />release community supervision; and <br />WHEREAS, the Reducing Crime and Keeping California Safe Act of 2018 ("Act") <br />reforms the law so felons who violate the terms of their release can be brought back to <br />court and held accountable for such violations; and <br />WHEREAS, nothing in the Act is intended to create additional "strike" offenses <br />which would increase the state prison population; nor is it intended to affect the ability of <br />the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award educational and <br />merit credits; and <br />Resolution No. 2020-073 <br />Page 1 of 4 <br />