Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
As crime rates started to tick up last year in Los Angeles, some law enforcement officers pointed the finger at re-alignment.
The controversial Public Safety Realignment Act, passed five years ago that - in an effort to reduce California's prison population. The realignment shifted responsibility for low-level offenders from the state to the county level.
In the first three years after that change was made, officials reported that nearly 25-thousand inmates were released in L.A. County alone.
But now a large-scale study by researchers from major California universities found that the downsizing had no impact on major crime.
Charis Kubrin and Carroll Serron are professors of criminology at UC Irvine, together they edited the report, which takes up an entire issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science published today.
Serron and Kubrin joined the show to discuss.
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