IDENTIFY CURRENT

FIGHT

2.3 BILLION JAIL EXPANSION +

400 Million in Annual Operations

The jail proposal as laid out by Vanir Construction Management Inc. includes a 1,600 bed women’s jail in Lancaster + a new jail to replace Men’s Central Jail for 4,860 people - (3,260 people diagnosed with mental illness, 500 people with substance abuse issues, 500 people who need medical treatment and 600 high security cells.)

SURVEILLANCE SUSPICIOUS

ACTIVITIES’ REPORTING (OBSERVED BEHAVIOR OF PRE-OPERATIONAL PLANNING, I-WATCH, FUSION CENTER, LICENSE PLATE READERS, BODY & CAR CAMERAS, TRAP WIRE, STINGRAY CELL-PHONE), DRONES, PUBLIC BENEFITS, CROWD CONTROL, SHOT SPOTTER - ACOUSTIC GUNFIRE, FACIAL RECOGNITION AND EYE-SCAN

MISSION CREEP“TRIAD MODEL” OF SCHOOL POLICING, OUTREACH TO PEOPLE LIVING ON STREET AND PEOPLE WITH MENTAL CONDITIONS, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS, YOUTH CENTERS AND CADET PROGRAMS, BRATTON: “REPLACE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE WITH SCHOOL TO POLICE PIPPELINE”

PREDICTIVE POLICINGNEW STOP STANDARD OF REASONABLE INDICATION, SATURATION POLICING, COMSTAT

MILITARIZATIONIN SCHOOLS, STREETS, LOCK-UPS (INCLUDES DHS THRU FEMA “URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE” $8 BILLION TO 62 CITIES - LA AND LONG BEACH NEARLY 1 B /1033 EQUIPMENT MUST BE USED OR RETURNED WITHIN 1 YEAR).

USE OF FORCE

HIGHEST IN NATION:

625 PEOPLE KILLED SINCE 2000

POLITICAL POWER AND PRCANDIDATES, LOBBYING, CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS, AND FALSE PROMISE OF “COMMUNITY POLICING”

Trends in PIC/LE:

SO CAL / LA

BROKEN WINDOWS POLICINGSAFER CITIES INITIATIVE ON SKID ROW, STOP AND FRISK, GANG DATABASES AND INJUNCTIONS

BUDGETDOMINANCE

Focus on System

not Families

L.A. LOCKDOWN

#1 worldwide: Incarceration (Prison Spending and Prison Population); Pornography Production/Export; Gangs Creation/Export; Meth Production/Export; Import/Export of 5 Illegal Drugs; Hand Guns; White Supremacy Gangs and Orgs

#1 nationwide: Gap between rich and poor, Homelessness, Youth in Foster Care - the majority were “orphaned” by the prison system, “Riots”/Uprisings, Children and people living in poverty, immigration and deportation

L.A. is home to:• The world’s largest Sheriffs Department and largest county jail system with

as many as 140,000 people a year cycling through as many as 8 county jails.• The world’s largest juvenile halls - Eastlake, Barry J. Nidorf and Los

Padrinos - with as many as 20,000 youth a year detained. • The world’s largest Probation Department - with over 20,000 youth and

40,000 adults on Probation.• The world’s largest youth prison system - L.A. has nearly as many Probation

“camps” - 19 - as community colleges (20).• The United States has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s

prison population. The U.S. is #1 in prisons, China with 1/3 of the world’s population is #2.

• California leads the nation in the number of people locked up: (over 200,000 a day in state prisons, youth prisons, youth camps and ranches, jails, juvenile halls and those held in detention with ICE - Immigration and Customs Enforcement - holds. LA 27% of state; 40% of CDCR.

Tell the Truth About Youth Crime

Drug Use/Abuse

School Shootings

Mass Shootings

Domestic Terrorism

Hate Groups

Drug Manufacturing

Gun Manufacturing

By 2,000, all teens had

the lowest violent crime rate since the

mid-60s.

Track History in Costs and Suffering

THE BUILDERS OF THE WARS ON DRUGS AND GANGS AND MASS INCARCERATION

THESE POLICIES CAME OUT OF L.A.:Nixon’s Law and Order backlash after 60s movements creates a massive jump in incarceration. NIXON DECLARES WAR ON DRUGS. The prison population increases 600% in 20 years. California and L.A. lead the worldin incarceration and harsh sentencing, including creation of adult court transfers, JLWOP, Prop 21 and Prop 9 - all are written and financed from L.A.; Three Strikes is financed from L.A. Howard Jarvis and Ronald Reagan lead anti-tax movement (Prop 13), the expanded war on drugs and war on welfare, and mental health de-institutionalization without community services, GLOBALIZATION AND OUTSOURCING OF MANUFACTURING. All lead to massive increase in homelessness and further incarceration. L.A. creates “planned Skid Row” to force homeless into downtown isolation. Chief Parker (LAPD) introduces military-style policing and brings National Guard tanks into Watts in ‘65. Gates (LAPD) takes militarization further by creating nation’s first SWAT and CRASH (gang unit) and battering rams. LA Sheriffs (LASD) implement nation’s first use of police helicopters. In ’92 Gates also created DARE.U.S. fuels wars against rebellions in Central America. In the 80s, LAPD and Sheriffs work with U.S. military to teach counter-guerilla tactics, interrogation and torture against civilians. In the 90s and 00s, they return to teach gang suppression when people are deported - (the greatest number from L.A.) 2007 - Jordan Downs is first community in the U.S. to get internet-based surveillance system. L.A. and Riverside first to use GPS monitoring to track people with gang convictions returning home from prison.

In the 1980s, Los Angeles County built the nation’s first comprehensive gang suppression policies:

[1] Gang injunctions - first started in Pomona, West Covina and LA, 82 -83 the ability to lock down a neighborhood and arrest people if they are on the street with another alleged gang member - Including family - + otherrestrictions.

[2] In 1985, L.A. established CLEAR [Community Law Enforcement and Recovery] first multi-agency task force and joint code enforcement effort targeting street gangs.

[3] In 1987, the L.A. County Sheriffs Department created the first gang database - a computerized file that labeled people as “gang members” without their knowledge, without any chance to appeal, and without clear way to get off. (4) The statewide STEP (Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention) Act in ‘88, the nation’s first law targeting street gangs, first gang definition, first language referring to gang members as “terrorists,” first gang enhancements in court, and took database statewide to create the CalGang Database.

CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCHOOL-TO-JAIL TRACK

PRESIDENT REAGAN APPOINTS WILLIAM BENNET

AS U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION.

ZERO TOLERANCE

policies include requirements for suspension, expulsion and arrests;

the takeover of school discipline by police departments; and

relationships in schools replaced by metal detectors, locker

searches, drug-sniffing dogs, and security gates.

1. Police Departments take over school security

2. More Probation Officers than Counselors

3. Schools look and run like prisons; some have the same architects

4. Searches, metal detectors, gang profiling

5. Leads to massive push-out and arrest

Link Impact to

Everyone

THE WARS ON DRUGS AND GANGS FUELED CALIFORNIA’S ADDICTION TO INCARCERATION

IN THE EARLY 80s, CALIFORNIA STARTED TO

RAPIDLY EXPAND THE BUILDING OF PRISONS

AND CUT THE BUDGET TO EVERYTHING ELSE.

DURING THAT SAME TIME, CALIFORNIA BUILT ONE UC AND

TWO CAL STATE UNIVERSITIES.

Downsize and

Defund

Intervention Savings: Each Murder Costs $1 Million to Investigate and $17 Million More in Jail, Court and Incarceration costs. With drastic decreases in homicide, shouldn’t the saved money be reinvestment in our schools and communities as a peace dividend?

Just

1%

of L.A.’s Courts, Police, Sheriffs’ District Attorney’s, Probation’s and City Attorney’s Budgets would pay for: 500 full-time gang intervention workers; 50 youth centers open from 3pm - midnight, 365 days a year; and 25,000 youth jobs!

NO MORE JAILS

Don’t Get Trapped

intoBuilding a

Better Cage

In the 1700s, poverty was severely punished. The death penalty, prisons , asylums, poorhouses and work farms were established to isolate anyone who didn’t fit into the economy, who engaged in the underground economy or who rebelled. Children are kept in the same institutions and courts as adults.

In 1787, the Quakers create the nation’s first

penitentiary - believing that solitude was

needed to enable people to do penance for their sins. But the isolation and sensory deprivation soon proved to cause severe mental illness and the Quakers abandoned the practice. The government, however, picked it up and make it the norm for U.S. prison system.

You see this today in... The misuse of institutional models for populations that shouldn’t be locked up. Missouri talks about this often: “Make it small, make it safe, make it humane and make sure no one is there who doesn’t need to be there.”

Creation of juvenile court systems that erase due process for youth - jury trial, bail, longer sentences than adults, hearings to determine adult court transfers.

Divide and conquer, such as the play of felony murder vs. “trigger person,” exclusion of various groups such as “cop killers,” “good immigrant” vs. “bad” immigrant, “sex offenders,” etc.

Ensure that people most impacted are fully involved in making the decision.

Disengage from

the System

FOR THE YJC, TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE (TJ) HAS SOME OF THE SAME

GOALS AS RJ, BUT ADDS COMMUNITY AND SYSTEM ACCOUNTABILITY:

Criminal and Juvenile Court:

1. What law was broken?2. Who broke it?3. What punishment is warranted?4. Competition between lawyers - assumes two opposing sides.5. Assumes guilty and innocent parties - victim and perpetrator.6. Not responsible for determining or addressing root causes of conflict.

Transformative Justice:1. Who was harmed?2. What are the needs and

responsibilities of those involved?

3. How do all affected parties together address needs and repair harm?

4. Is non-adversarial. Seeks an outcome all parties can agree to.

4. What are the root causes of the conflict?

5. What community and/orsocietal change is needed to change relationships, conditions and power?

Job and Cost Comparisons Between Law Enforcement and Intervention