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| 4. More courts would be needed due to clogging by defendants taking their cases to trial. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Court clogging did occur in the first year, primarily in LA. Adjustments were made without adding new judges or courts. California has maintained less than 1,600 judges for the last 10 years with the exception of the last few months of the Davis Governorship which saw an increase of last moment appointments. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. More deaths of police officers having to arrest more desperate criminals. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| It was predicted by those opposing 3-Strikes that this law would place police at higher risk due to the fact that the police would be apprehending more desperate criminals. Their projection was more cops would die. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The actual numbers show an increase in the first 2 years and then the number drops. When the overall number per year is less than 10 it is subject to dramatic change with one incident. It is quite clear that no pattern of increase occurred after 3-Strikes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peace Officers Killed in the Line of Duty 1986-2001 (Taken from Homicide in California, 1986-2001) |
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