Archive for September 2024

A page from Court and Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the TAPI Collection by JP Losty(Amazon) A decade after Proposition 47 was approved by Californians, many are questioning whether the crime-lenient bill has actually promoted “safe neighborhoods.” Below, algorithm analyst Ray Manning zooms in on Long Beach’s publicly available data, finding that: no, crime of all…

Image by Freepik SJ CM David Cohen revealed a lack of understanding of the nature of democracy on 8.27 when he equated democracy with majority rule, as part of his misguided defense of Proposition 5 (which would lower the long-held threshold for new local taxes from 66% to 55%.). Majority rule does not equate to…