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

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.

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