{"id":99066,"date":"2025-09-05T08:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/voters-approved-tougher-penalties-for-drug-and-theft-crimes-are-they-working\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:53:51","slug":"voters-approved-tougher-penalties-for-drug-and-theft-crimes-are-they-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/voters-approved-tougher-penalties-for-drug-and-theft-crimes-are-they-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Approved Tougher Penalties for Drug and Theft Crimes. Are They Working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 last year to increase criminal penalties for certain drug and theft offenses. But less than a year in, is the measure helping decrease crime? Marisa and Scott are joined by San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe to discuss the measure\u2019s promises and outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/09\/04\/voters-approved-tougher-penalties-for-drug-and-theft-crimes-are-they-working\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 last year to increase criminal penalties for certain drug and theft offenses. But less than a year in, is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}