Bad Candidates Threaten Criminal Justice Reform in California

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : In 2019, Boudin ran for office on a progressive platform of criminal justice reform.
46% : Despite campaigning on criminal justice reform, Villanueva has run his office more akin to a law-and-order conservative, even charging that his opponents "worship at the altar of wokeism."
38% : Villanueva won office in 2018's "blue wave" election cycle, stressing his Latino heritage, his support for California's "sanctuary state" law which discouraged cooperation with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and his desire to root out cronyism in a famously corrupt department.
33% : Villanueva and Boudin may have little in common, but they each spell trouble for criminal justice reform in California's cities.

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