One Of California’s Released Felons Just Tried To Kill A Cop

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 One Of California’s Released Felons Just Tried To Kill A Cop
 
V. Saxena
February 22, 2016

In November of 2014, California passed Proposition 47, which reclassified many felonies as misdemeanors and thus allowed a bunch of incarcerated prisoners to get out early.

Last Thursday, the Orange County Grand Jury indicted one of those prisoners, Jimmy Hoang Truong, 28, for having fired at police officers during a police chase last November, according to the Los Angeles Times:

    Truong currently faces three felony counts of attempted murder on a peace officer, four felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm on peace officers, one felony count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, one felony count of evading peace officers while driving recklessly and sentencing enhancements for the use of a firearm.

    If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in state prison, prosecutors said.

Unless of course California decides to downgrade these charges as well.

Speaking of which, Truong was initially convicted of felony drug possession and sentenced to 16 months in jail on Sept. 24, 2013.

He later got released slightly early on Dec. 2, 2014, as per the passage of Proposition 47. Granted, he got released only a month early, but here’s the catch:

“Five months later, on April 3, 2015, Truong was arrested for carrying a switchblade. Three days after that, he was arrested again for possessing a controlled substance. He was charged with misdemeanors in both incidents, the district attorney’s office said.”

Apparently, he got out again, but I suspect that Truong would have been re-incarcerated for much longer had California not passed Proposition 47 a year earlier — and that’s the point!

Now cue something Fox News host Bill O’Reilly wrote last year in regard to a similar proposal made by President Barack Obama:

    When I was growing up in Levittown, New York, there was nothing worse than being a drug dealer. They were outcasts in the neighborhood, considered scum.

    Now they are glorified in some places; in many circles the local dealer is considered cool. The acceptance and promotion of addictive substances is a national disgrace.

    Drug dealing is one of the lowest forms of human activity, it enslaves kills and harms people. Yet President Obama is making it a priority to give folks who sell hard drugs leniency.

Not just Obama … but California as well!

http://downtrend.com/vsaxena/californias-released-felons

[Fishrrman]

If things keep goin' the way they're goin', before too long the only crimes people will be jailed for in California will be racism, sexism, and genderism...

[flowers]

If things keep goin' the way they're goin', before too long the only crimes people will be jailed for in California will be racism, sexism, and genderism...

you forgot....driving while white on a sunny day.

[truth_seeker]

He was released per Prop 47 because until then he had no violent offenses.

He got out, then committed violent offenses. Yes there are and will continue to be those that reoffend.

But the logic is still sound, to not keep more, and more, and more people locked up for non-violent offenses.

That is what the voters sought to do.

People do know that the US keeps a far greater percent of people locked up, than do other advanced countries? Mostly for non-violent drug charges.

I will readily admit this is a state experiment, and act of federalism. I spend time with people that have been behind bars for drugs and alcohol offenses, and are undergoing rehabilitation. A precept of rehabilitation is that it usually takes more than one try.

For the most part the belief in rehabilitation is non-partisan. In fact an Orange County judge and later VP candidate with the Libertarian Party was an early advocate.

On the other end of the drug-alcohol punishment spectrum, people that kill other operating a vehicle in impaired states are being charged heavily, up to murder.