We must now finance it. – Orange County Register

Orange County’s County County’s Rap Drogue Leaf James Studdert is 97 pages.

In the past five years only, Studdert, 54, has accumulated 86 previous convictions on drugs. Studdert has five previous strikes for residential burglary under the California strike law. He went to prison. He went to prison.

But he did not stay there – and he did not stop committing crimes.

Two days before Christmas, Studdert was again arrested for drugs. He had a 5 -$ 5 -mamphetamine bag and a methamphetamine hose on him, an Orange County sheriff assistant testified during a preliminary hearing in January, the deputy noting that he had personally stopped StuddeDdert at least 50 times.

Beneficiary of California’s experiences on the crime that has tormented the Golden State in the last decade, Studdert and tens of thousands of other accused like him, have been fed by the rotating door of the criminal justice system by judges who rejected responsibility and put back to credit in place.

Really, Studdert has continued to break the law – and again and again – the judges – who are elected officials – let him go out in the street.

The Californians took the law in their hands last November, massively approving proposal 36 and rejecting the disastrous reform of criminal justice, a decade ago by Prop. 47, who reclassified most

It was a resounding comment of Californians who have enough. Anarchy is no longer an option. Responsibility and consequences make a return – a vote at a time.

The voters of each California county approved proposal 36, the roaming law, drug addiction and the reduction in theft, which adopted 68% of voters throughout the state.

In Orange County, 76% of voters voted for prop. 36 Who now demands that the judges warn the hard drug traffickers that they could be accused of murder if their drugs kill someone, provide treatment to drug addicts and allows prosecutors to deposit thieves’ crimes.

And the same judges whose wrist sentences that have led to creeping roaming, an untreated mental illness and out of control are now mandated by voters to repair it.

It has been a little more than three months than Prop. 36 entered into force on December 18, 2024, and here in Orange County, the voters obtain exactly what they demanded from the polls: drug addicts obtain treatment instead of going to prison and repeating the thieves go to prison. Our judges – as well as the County County Justice System of Orange and the stakeholders of the community – hold responsible criminals while we direct the conversation of this new reality.

Of the nearly 400 cases of rehearsal flight subject to the Orange County District Prosecutor’s Office, more than 269 cases have been deposited and dozens more are in progress. Nearly 100 cases were resolved with half of the defendants pleading guilty of crimes – crimes which before the prop. 36 would have been only crimes.

More than 1,200 cases of medication have been deposited, the majority of them filed crimes and 135 defendants were assessed for crime programs exerted by treatment. Twenty-nine of these defendants have argued in a treatment program, including a 41-year-old homeless one who has had 21 drug sentences lasts in the past two years and a 32-year-old homeless who fights with the SSPT from his stay in the army and chose treatment to solve these underlying problems.

Some California counties have not yet filed a single drug emission to a single prop. 36. The Upper Court of the County of Marin threatens to reject the accusations because it is an undecorded mandate.

For too long, the Californians have been forced to endure homelessness and the rampant flight, and the prop. 36 seems to be the light at the end of a tunnel of several decades strewn with the consequences of flexible policies on the crime.

But treatment only works if counties have infrastructure, programs and financing to provide it.

Senator Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, put pressure for the financing of Prop. 36 To ensure that each county has the resources to achieve the will of the people. Each Californian – and each elected official – should support Prop. 36 Funding

It is time to finally go to the light at the end of this very long tunnel and to restore California to the Golden State.

Todd Spitzer is the District Prosecutor of Orange County.

Originally published: March 30, 2025 at 7:42 p.m.