Source: New York Post
California’s controversial soft-on-crime experiment may have helped put 7,000 more people on the streets, while drug use climbed and treatment fell, according to a new study. Proposition 47, the 2014 measure that downgraded certain drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, appears to have driven a roughly 10% increase in unsheltered homelessness between 2015 and 2019, researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California found. 5 California’s controversial soft-on-crime experiment may have helped put 7,000 more people on the streets.
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