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Opinion: Polly Klaas' murder accelerated the tough-on-crime movement. Her sisters want to stop it

Oct 17, 2021 View Original Article
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    -62% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -62% Medium Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : In it, they cautioned California voters against rolling back the criminal justice reforms adopted in recent years.
45% : Now, they are recording leading voices in criminal justice reform and people whose lives were affected by crime and punishment.
43% : The American system of criminal justice is (or was) meant to remove crime victims and survivors from the equation.
41% : Such statements were embraced by law-and-order proponents who believed the U.S. Supreme Court of the 1950s and '60s granted too many rights to criminal defendants.
40% : The right moment came last year, with the killing of George Floyd, the protests, and the failure of a ballot measure to roll back criminal justice reforms in California.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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