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    Anita Chabria: Violent crime is spiking in Trump's California. These counties blame everyone but themselves

    Homicides are up across California and the blame experts are aiming their outrage at the usual suspects. Gavin Newsom. Propositions 47 and 57 for lowering penalties on nonviolent crimes and facilitating early prison releases. Progressive district attorneys. Democrats. But deeper in the data, released Thursday by state Attorney General Rob Bonta, is a more complicated story, one that defies ...
    by Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times Aug 27, 2022 6 minutes
    An investigation is underway after a triple shooting that killed two people and wounded a third at an apartment in Canoga Park early Thursday, July 25, 2019.

    Homicides are up across California and the blame experts are aiming their outrage at the usual suspects.

    Gavin Newsom. Propositions 47 and 57 for lowering penalties on nonviolent crimes and facilitating early prison releases. Progressive district attorneys. Democrats.

    But deeper in the data, released Thursday by state Attorney General Rob Bonta, is a more complicated story, one that defies those easy narratives of a failed California with its recklessly unsafe efforts at criminal justice reform. The biggest risks for homicides came in conservative counties with iron-fist sheriffs and district attorneys, places where progressives in power are nearly as common as monkeys riding unicorns.

    Kern County leads the locales where your chance of being murdered is greatest — with a homicide rate of nearly 14 people per 100,000, compared with about 6 per 100,000 for the state as a whole and 8.5 per 100,000 in Los Angeles County. The number of people annually murdered (a legal term

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