The politics of violence: Will Sacramento shootings alter attorney general’s race?

A SUSPECT IN connection with the shooting deaths of six people in downtown Sacramento was released from prison less than halfway through his 10-year sentence because of credits earned behind bars, handing Assembly Republicans an opportunity to decry the state’s recent wave of criminal justice reforms.  

“The violence we saw [April 3] should be a wakeup call that Democrats’ criminal justice policies of the last decade aren’t working,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City said last week.