By codifying and expanding cite and release, Proposition A would support the city’s workforce development efforts.
, 24 percent of the 7,464 citations issued between July 2019 and December 2022 were referred to diversion. Of the people who committed to diversion, 79 percent completed the program and their records are sealed. If a person doesn’t complete the diversion program, their case may be filed for prosecution.
Why then would a program with a successful completion rate for holding people accountable for nonviolent offenses—with a focus on vocational training, job placement and educational attainment—not receive rallying support?Fifty years of racist “tough-on-crime” policies have created and sustained the world’s highest rates of incarceration in the United States.
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