[isthisnickcool]

"Ultimately, being smart on crime is about doing more preventing and less reacting, it's about being tough and being tough-minded, doing more of what works and less of what doesn't," she said.

Her job is to prosecute crime, to react to it. Who does she think she is? Tom Cruise in The Minority Report?

This kind of thinking is like changing all the light bulbs to "prevent" what is called "global warming". Something is done to stop somthing that cannot be quantified but idiots will say that they fixed a problem that never existed. Because of this they can conjure up just about any statistics they want to prove they stopped something before it happened but it was never going to happen in the first place.

I've read up on this broad, she is a lot like Lee Brown. very good at making it look liike she is being successful while she actually uses plea bargans and other techniques to bring up her case closure rates.

She sucks when it comes to using the death penatly which is something she is against. Even when it comes to MS-13 gangers.

If she wanted to do something she would start prosecuting illegals while starting litigation against Mexico for the damage it has done to Kalifornia.

This gal is another leftwingnut who thinks she will be president someday.

[newzjunkey]

I agree with "prevention" in general. You can prevent crime through education, through neighborhood policing, through enforcement against "life style crimes" like Rudy did in NYC cleaning up graffiti… but I'm always suspicious of the Left's idea of "prevention" which often involves costly measures of questionable worth.

L.A.'s murder rate is down to that not seen since the late 1960's. San Diego saw only 29 homicides in all of 2010, fewer than more than 40 yrs. I'm glad to see the "war on crime" making progress even in this economic climate.

Unfortunately, I have to ask if it'll be undone by early releases from overcrowded prisons as forced by the courts. I'm not thrilled by her embrace of "sanctuary city" policies. What I really want to know from any Attorney General is whether her office will defend the vote of the People. It seems clear she'll take then AG Brown's lead and not defend Prop 8, for example.

The policy of abandoning the voters in the courts is not acceptable and yet we've seen it during Davis' administration, Arnold's and surely Brown's too. Whether or not you question the constitutionality of the law or whether you disagree with how the People voted, you owe them the best defense in court proceedings.