Amnesty For Felons: Why Idiot Voters Should Stop Voting In Idiot Measures
Voters passed a measure in Los Angeles which will either mean paying our taxpayer dollars to inspectors to go check porn stars for condoms -- or, get this, to watch porn to see if there's latex on Fernando's Big Rod.

Hey, idiot voters: THESE. MEASURES. COST. MONEY.

Meanwhile, we are broke and unable to pay money for things like, you know, keeping the criminals in their cages, or putting criminals who belong there, in.

Paige St. John writes in the Los Angeles Times:

SACRAMENTO -- State corrections officials are poised to drop the arrest warrants of thousands of parole violators, releasing them from state supervision at a time when their detention would complicate efforts to ease crowding in state and county lockups.

The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation intends to begin a massive review next week of more than 9,200 outstanding warrants, starting with individuals who were convicted of nonviolent crimes and absconded from supervision. Over the next eight months, parole field offices across the state will be given lists of missing felons, 200 at a time, to review and determine if retaining them on parole "would not be in the interest of justice."

The mass purge is an attempt to ease the burden on counties in July, when the state hands off responsibility for parole revocations to local courts, said agency spokesman Jeffrey Callison. Weeding out cases that are years old, or of parolees nobody is looking for, will make it easier to focus on those who pose a threat, he said.

It will not, Callison said, "allow some paroles to 'get off the hook.' "

"I have been told that discharging people is not the point of the exercise," he said Friday.

Which is exactly the claim of some victims' advocates who are infuriated by the state's so-called warrant review project.

"It's mass amnesty for felons," said Assemblyman Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), a vocal opponent of Gov. Jerry Brown's plans to ease state prison crowding by shifting responsibility for low-level offenders to counties.

JosephLCooke comments at the LAT:

California: Making crime risk free one step at a time.