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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : His policy directives, which we wrote about in depth here , issued on his first day to his 1,000 deputy district attorneys, included prohibiting his prosecutors from asking for bail in most cases; refusing to prosecute most misdemeanors; prohibiting his prosecutors from filing sentencing enhancements and priors allegations for new crimes; refusing to prosecute violent criminals under the age of 18 in adult court; refusing to allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty, no matter the crime; resentencing between 20,000 and 30,000 convicted felons who had served at least 15 years of a life sentence or what he deemed a too-long sentence; and reversing convictions of violent felons if he suspected that race played a part in the conviction, even when the conviction survived an appeal.

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