School shootings, gun violence, police misconduct, and catch-release are all headlines and issues that are impacting our communities and families in California. These are not issues that are happening thousands of miles away to people we do not know, but they are happening here on our streets and sometimes in our very backyards.
What do we do to address these growing issues of public safety? We need our children to be safe at school, we need to be safe while we go to work, and we need to know that criminals are kept in check by trustworthy law enforcement individuals.
If you are listening and reading the policy proposals that are coming out of Sacramento by the majority party, the messages are confusing and sometimes counteract each other. When the message is about a single issue the message is clear and even sensible to a point, but when taken together these ideas fight and send mixed signals to our communities….