Editorial: The recall election is a new chance for anti-reformers' old lies about 'soft on crime' California

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : There has been talk about doing those things, but for the most part law enforcement budgets remain intact.
46% : Police budgets have not declined, and police deployment has not been pulled back.
43% : Voters were paying attention last November too, when opponents of criminal justice reform brought forward Proposition 20 to roll back realignment, Proposition 47, and Proposition 57, passed by voters in 2016.
42% : Newsom has indeed played some important roles in criminal justice reform, including his plans to close two prisons -- a fiscally conservative move, given the decline in the prison population -- and appointing Democrat Rob Bonta as attorney general .
42% : If you enjoy the falsehoods about criminal justice reform lobbed at Newsom this summer, don't worry
34% : One was making simple possession of illegal drugs for personal use a misdemeanor, as it had once been before.

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