Democrat policies and politics going all the way up the ladder to California Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Legislature, on up to the Obama administration, and the Obama-Holder prison reform program which subverted the law as well as Congress.
The so-called reforms succeeded in promoting crime by decriminalizing many crimes, and reclassifying violent crimes as "non-violent." Gov. Jerry Brown's A.B. 109, "realigned" California's overcrowded prison system, shifting responsibility of repeat, newly classified "nonviolent" offenders from state prisons to county jails. Those released were assigned county probation officers rather than state parole officers. Those newly "non-violent" criminals let out of county jails due to overcrowding are living on the streets, living on our parkways, rivers, and canals, and using the streets as their toilets.