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| Cal.App4th 161, 165-166, as criminals who have "demonstrated an imperviousness to deterrence which it would be folly to ignore." The fact that these felons have been willing to engage in felonious conduct despite the greatly increased punishments of "Three Strikes" identifies these felons as among the most dangerous group of felons. Their continued felonious conduct has provided a rather "convincing demonstration that no consequence would deter [them] from crime." | |||
| These recidivist felons are incarcerated because of "Three Strikes" in our state prisons because they are active criminals who have resisted all forms of deterrence. This group of recidivist scoundrels have earned their "Three Strikes" sentences because they are the most thick-skulled and predictably wicked of felons. They hurt people, they hurt communities, and they hurt our economy, because they are statistically responsible for the largest percentage of felonious crimes committed in this state. The release of these tens of thousands of felons will endanger the safety of every resident of California and will cause our crime rate to reverse its downward spiral and to once again grow in the manner in which it grew prior to 1994. | |||
| (5) The loss of deterrence in the criminal law. | |||
| The "Three Strikes" laws have constituted the single greatest deterrence to felonious criminal activity in California in the past 30 years. "Three Strikes" was the first penal statute to actually frighten recidivist criminals. Parolees left the state in order to avoid its consequences. Many of those who remained in California changed their criminal behavior. They got jobs to earn a living rather than to steal from others or to engage in illegal criminal profiteering. Many of them actually stopped their felonious conduct because of their fear of the punishment consequences of "Three Strikes." The punishments of "Three Strikes" actually have deterred crime. | |||
| Reducing the punishments of "Three Strikes" will reduce its deterrent impact. Passing this initiative would constitute a public statement that California is once again more tolerant of the felonious conduct of men and women who have committed violent and serious felonies. The damage to the deterrent effect of the criminal laws of this state cannot be overstated. | |||
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