Preaching to the choir

California’s long track record of promises made, but not kept

Last month, McClatchy Newspapers and the ProPublica news organization published an investigative article delving into how billions of dollars meant to reduce repeat criminal activity by improving local jails and probation services were siphoned off for other purposes.
“Since 2011, California has sent more than $8 billion to counties to cover the costs of the massive prison overhaul approved that year, known as ‘realignment,’ which diverted thousands of inmates from prisons to local jails,” the article, published in the Sacramento Bee and other McClatchy newspapers, revealed.
The money was meant to pay for jailing the diverted felons and for programs to help them avoid lives of crime. However, as the article points out, county officials instead shifted much of the money into ordinary law enforcement activities, especially sheriff’s offices.

Dan Walters is a bit braver having become semi-retired.

But we saw this in the Federal stimulus during the crash, about half the stimulus went to pensions.  We have seen this with carbon taxes, the taxes going to inflation adjusted pensions.   This is all failed Hispanic state stuff. We see it in most Latin American nations.

¿Por qué las naciones latinas casi siempre son corruptas?

 ¿Debo nombrar algunas de estas naciones? Puerto Rico, la nación favorita de AOC. México, atropellado por los carteles. Venezuela, Argentina, Honduras, El Salvador. Las legislaturas hispanas tienen algo equivocado acerca de su filosofía de gobierno.

The problem still exists:

California’s jails are in a deadly crisis. How can Gavin Newsom start fixing them?

This is today's headline, and Gavin will propose the same thing, fraud. Gavin cannot help himself, he has been engaged in this legal fraud for so long he cannot find a way out.