California’s Crime Crisis: Voters Took Action, Newsom Took His Football And Went Home

California’s current crime conundrum can be told as a story with (at least) three parts. Voters passed 2014’s Proposition 47, 2016’s Proposition 57, and finally 2024’s Proposition 36.

In the first two, voters went along with progressive policies — sold using feel-good language — that created more homelessness, crime, and human misery. In the third, though, voters overwhelmingly rejected the failures caused by these earlier policies.