Judge Says: “Strong Support” for Prop. 5

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California’s well-funded law enforcement lobby is spending a lot of time and energy opposing Prop. 5. But just this week, law enforcement officials from all over the country have come to the defense of this historic measure.

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The National Black Police Association and the National African-American Drug Policy Coalition (NAADPC) both recently endorsed Prop. 5. According to Judge Arthur Burnett, executive director of NAADPC, “there is strong support” among his membership.

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“Judges will maintain control and have discretion as to who can enter into the drug treatment program. We are convinced that conscientious judges can prevent abuses and manipulation of the system by drug abusers and addicts.”

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“Further, we note that there will be clinical assessments by healthcare personnel and other trained professionals, and thus an offender can not avoid criminal sanctions and get into one of the track programs simply on his or her sworn statement.”

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“We applaud [Prop. 5's] approach to technical probation and parole violations of not… immediately sending the person to jail or back to prison, but rather being more creative to fashion a tighter supervision and monitoring program which corrects the deficiencies in that person’s compliance….”

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