Crime in California 2024
Crime in California 2024 by Steve Smith | July 15, 2025 On July 1, as it has for over 50 years, the California Department of Justice released three statistical reports covering crime in general, homicides, and juvenile crime. On the positive side, there are some reductions particularly in violent crime and auto thefts. Yet sexual assaults are up, statistical flaws remain, and clearance rates were very low. Unreported crimes and low clearance rates expose the ...
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2025 California Ideas in Action Conference
Watch Videos from PRI’s 2025 California Ideas in Action Conference The 2025 PRI California Ideas in Action Conference featured conversations and panel discussions with leading state policy makers, real life changemakers, and top free market thinkers on some of California’s top challenges, including what’s next for stronger criminal justice policy reform after the passage of Prop. 36, how to improve student achievement in the classroom through better reading instruction, why bad government prescription drug policy ...
The Train To Nowhere Goes Somewhere – Maybe
The promise of a bullet train connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco, and maybe even extending to San Diego to the south and Sacramento to the north, was broken longer before ground was broken in 2015 for the project. The route has been shortened, the construction timeline endlessly extended, and expectations ground to dust. Now comes another possible change. Merced, the town that was to be the northern terminus under of the train’s first completed ...
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