The Man Behind California's "3 Strikes Law" - Douglas Walker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2023
- In the late 1990's, newspapers were filled with stories of men and women in California who were sentenced to life in prison for misdemeanor offenses. The most well known case involved Jerry Williams, the man who received 25-years-to-life for stealing a single slice of pizza. These strict prison sentences came because of the "3 Strikes and You're Out" law. A law that was pushed to California voters in 1994 because of a man named Douglas Walker.
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I remember when two kids beat and robbed a pizza delivery guy near me. Instead of prison they were sent to go camp on an Alaskan island. They played video games, rode 4 wheelers, shot rifles and hunted for sport, drank liquor and booze, were visited frequently by family and friends, what a joke. Shoulda put them boys in a prison cell.
Prison would’ve made them worse and more violent sadly
@@tonyhernandez63 and giving them a vacation, simply encourages them to continue doing what they do.
@@whatta7793so your an expert?😂😂😂
@mannyboyaztlan5127 no... but we are speaking on an open platform 😅 so we all have different ideas 💡 🙄
When my neighbor knew he had 2 strikes against him. For being a felon, he went. And got a 9 to 5 after they dissolved the 3 strikes law... He lost is job and broken into multiple remote home's consequences.😢
I'm from Fresno. I remember when this happened. Shit was crazy, they killed that poor girl in the middle of the day in tower district of Fresno.
It’s crazy how many lifers are clogging up the prison system with light bogus crimes like I knew a guy who got life for walking out the store with a pack of steaks, was chased he then punched the loss prevention officer and was given life now the taxpayers will take care of him for probably the rest of his life I believe that strikes should be serious crime like child predators ,murderers and bank robbers not a guy who stole a pizza or a steak!!
You understand that's not petty theft, he used force to steal something, that is robbery. A felony. 😅😂 hope you got good looks kid.
A person can die if they get punched wrong, for instance if they fall and hit their head. If the thief is willing to be violent like that, then they should be kept with the other animals and away from society.
Too many lifers. Bring back the death penalty.
Newscum illegally stopped it.
California voted to uphold the death penalty.
Petty food thieft should not be punishable by prison time. Just garnish their pay, up to 30 days in jail, etc
Some of them purposely get sent to prison because of the reasons you pointed out
Funny thing a major supporter and individual who pushed this. His son actually ended up getting struck out I believe so yeah support it, until it happens to someone close to you. This guy Douglas is a complete lost cause he never learned.
What it had the most to do with was super-rich people and their companies/corporations making massive investments in the privatised prison system, and at the same time making massive contributions to 'law and order' lobbying groups who were pressuring legislators to pass more and more strict and less and less just laws, like '3 strikes and you're out' law. This happened not just in California, but all over the US. It's a good way to make money if you don't care about the utterly destructive effects it has on your society.
Like Joe Biden's 1994 crime bill that sentenced poor people to an automatic 5 years in prison and forfeiture of all their money and assets including cars etc just for having a tiny piece of crack or residue. While people busted with small amounts of powdered cocaine got rehab and probation.
He gave his children millions of dollars and high paying jobs when they smoke crack tho.
oh okay, so having criminals out is less destructive than the prison system. You’re sympathizing with career criminals versus the victims? 😂
And the shame of it all is; the law allows rapists, child molesters, and child trafficking to only receive a slap on the hand. The law will easily put away gang members from hanging around their neighborhood (even if they live there) or from hanging out with a child hood friend who happened to live in the same neighborhood for just being together. But, overt their eyes when a sex offender lives in a school zone or hangs around zones he isnt suppose to be near. It goes to show how many people in the judicial system are into that kind of thing. Epsteins Island is still very much in existence. Its just on land that continues to stretch around the globe even more blatantly.
Here’s an example pop smokes killer got 4 years, the DA in Tory lanez case offering 13yrs wtf
@@Weasel_NM575 California Texas enough said..
@@Weasel_NM575 he was a child
I agree with this also.
This channel needs more attention dead ass
They need this law in Chicago
No they don't that would cause riots. Catch and release is just fine
Doesn’t work much in California
They’d need to make 6 new prisons
I'm glad I was born in Chicago don't worry there is also alot of Crooked pigs that work in the pig system by the numbers. That love it by Abuse of power. I tell you by Experience. Most cops are dicks and even love to lie in front of the judge. And they even watch porn in their cell phones right next to the judge. And I have Many more stories the shit won't stop they crooked by love.
Nah In Chicago they rather let the killers kill other killers so the city doesn’t have to spend all of its resources on trying to keep catch them. Which is why a lot of people in Chicago have killed multiple people and are still free
Love the narration on these videos, not sure who it is but incredibly well done whoever you are
I agree.
Fresneck😂
I would love to sign a petition, stating that any crime that is considered a wobbler crime meaning it can either be a misdemeanor or a felony should not be able to hold a strike!!!
Or don’t do any crimes
Meanwhile so many people had gotten the 3 strikes within first ten years it was passed and yet the person who's behind the reason it was introduced in the first place didn't get 3 strikes till 19 years after The fact.. that's some bs
I remember hearing about the pizza case back in the 90s here in the UK. Then we introduced a similar law 😅
I think it's a good system for the worst offenders FFS shooting a woman in the head WTF do they expect.
It started with a white man but the blacks and Mexican get all the strikes
They would get them real quick
I think this laws mostly impacts people who are caught committing the most felony crimes regardless of race. The legislation doesn't specify these laws are only for blacks and Mexicans.
Hardly whites in California committing crime
@@BulkernatorKerbyep but there are racial disparities the prosecution, judges who determine sentencing.
Maybe we should be happy that the whites aren’t locked up😂🎉
I haven't finished watching yet, I'm at 5:30, but I want to say that I appreciate the non-biased reporting. A lot of reporting today is more like activism. This is just laying out the facts and allowing us, the viewers, to make our decisions.
You have a perfect voice for narratoring stories. I'm liking this channel.
I detect a slight Southern accent. She does have a beautiful voice tho
I lived around the corner where this happened. I heard the shot. Hearing gun shots was the norm.
My suggestion for balancing the three strikes law. For the intended purpose of incarcerating individual who are in fact career criminals but also sparing those who really are just making a mistake and don't deserve the third strike.
I say if the crime will end up being 7 years sentence or more you can give them the strike. If your willing to do a crime of that level you deserve whatever you get, that's not a petty crime sentence, that's not a fist fight, that's not petty theft, that's not fraud, it's not possession of narcotics with intend to consume. It would be like aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon with intent too cause bodily harm. Possession of a large quantity of narcotics with intend too sell.
I guess a lot of this depends on state your in but I think generally I'm on point with the punishment times, and quality of crimes that would justify a third strike.
Everyone deserves a second shit even third chance under some circumstances some conditions people live in deserves even more depending on the upbringing. But nobody should get so many chances they are a menace too their community. Nobody should lose a child for your second or third chance.
I tried too think of something neither side would really argue with
I can't imagine being enough of a Loser to even get one strike let alone two strikes. I've spent 70 years busting my ass to be a contributer to society. We've all taken hits from the Criminal Element in everything that we do or purchase. OAD One And Done should be our Motto. Everyone has a Yesterday and this Ain't Nobody's First Rodeo. Lock Em Up John.
@@aliciabrowndocken4660spoken like a true boomer who has ruined so much for proceeding generations
@@aliciabrowndocken4660No good deed goes unpunished, right old-timer?
@@aliciabrowndocken4660 I don't have one strike either, but imagine your coming home from a bar and some guy up in your face yelling and screaming spit flying in your face. And you punch that or push him back a little to hard and he slips and cracks his head on the concrete. You sir would be charged with manslaughter and that is a crime that would lead you to getting a strike.
I've never been in trouble I've never had a strike but I've seen normal people minding their own business end up in trouble because trouble came to them. Maybe in your little small town of 90 people you won't have to deal with anything like that. But imagine your grandkids or children who live in cities somewhere. It happens too an innocent person once a day
Thank you for this informative video.
He looks like the mascot for the Fresneck gang!!
Straight Fresneck 😂
I'm from Fresno crazy how a dude from my city got the 3 strikes started
At least you guys have great weather ☁️🌡️,, shout out from Brooklyn NY
Not something to be proud of, just saying 😅
@scottsneed4287 who said I was proud?
The Prison Industrial Complex LOVES three strikes laws
There’s a difference between aggravated robbery and shoplifting… The law should never have applied to petty misdemeanors. The people saying “well just don’t break the law” have zero understanding of how difficult life can be for some people. If a homeless person steals food and your response is “lock them up”, you desperately need psychiatric treatment (because you are probably a sociopath). I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be consequences for minor crimes, but life in prison for bad checks or petty theft is borderline retarded.
Jesus what made a judge justify sentencing a man for a slice of pizza 🍕😮 like what if he ate the whole pizza 😭
That’s messed up!
No reason the judge was corrupt
Race made him do it
He must have been had multiple felony convictions and stealing is a felony he chose it race had nothing to do with it for Yu victim playing mfs
@@Est93Acknowledging racial biases doesnt make u a victim. Youre just a sheep repeatinge dog whistle words you heard on fox news. Judges have admitted and been arrested for sellimg black inmates. If you dont think racism is in the system youre blind.
Arrested for inhaling paint fumes 😂🤣 I did not know that was illegal
Its almost like one size fits all doesnt work for prosecution. Who would have thought? Our CJ system is so messed up.
The knob-smoker that ruined it all.
Evrybody is a critic until the victim is their loved one
25 TO LIFE IS WINO TIME 😎
I use to work for an attorney who told me that the courthouse in Torrance was the one that passed the law. Is this true?
This was very well done and informative
They should have a 3 strike laws for the Fresno pd that’s a gang for sure those guys do not play fair
I'm proud of my city but this brngs great shame to the San Joaquin Valley. Things are improving here but this will never be forgotten. Too bad this happened to her, but this is why the law is here now. I still love my city. Lots of good people here. Lots of bad things happen everywhere. This shouldn't brand us as a horrible city to come to. 559 stand up!!!
educational video 👍🏼👍🏼📹📺💯
Domestic violence cases. ESPECIALLY REPEAT CASES. My dad is a good example.
I know people that change their ways because of this law they didn’t want to go back to jail for a long time
Before they pass a law they perform an "impact study" to see the benefits and cost to the state taxpayers over the short and longterm.
I thought it was a mug shot of a cholo at first 😂.
Didnt notice the fresneck on his neck.
I always remember my grandfather saying what a waste of a life or these criminals should fight each other to death in prison. But I think the reality is that repeat criminals are not deterred by prison… they actually enjoy it because it’s a big hang out.
They enjoy it because it's comfortable and predictable. That's what being institutionalized is.
Or like going to criminal college
They should be turning big rocks into small rocks
They do 😂 and we loved every minit of it 😂😂😂 this was my old cellmate for 8 months 😂😂😂
Of course he told me everything while we was cellis ....they couldn't convict him cuz the cops killed his crime partner @ no whiteness..go figure .
What the pizza 🍕 theft description lacks is understanding the setting. You don’t just simply have a theft of some slice of pizza, you have a grown 2nd striker man who intimidated a bunch of young people and took the slice from their gathering to enjoy it. He bullied them and took it. If that’s ok with anyone for grown ass losers to bully our kids, than gripe about it, if not ok, he deserved the 3rd strike for being a habitual loser.
What next hanging and stealing their penis?
I don’t care if he stabbed someone to get that pizza 3 strikes is some unconstitutional shit
@@NaturalMagi123You'd care if he stabbed you or your kids.
@@NaturalMagi123That's some fucked up thinking. Tf is wrong with you people?
@@NaturalMagi123
It's entirely constitutional
May she rest in peace angel 😢
Child molesters don’t get absolutely nothing . The laws protects those individuals.
They have the same sexual preferences as the elites.
Every state in the nation needs this law less scumbags on the street is good
Should've keeped the 3 strikes law
theres a simple solution to not being locked up under that law. DONT COMMIT CRIMES!
punishment should fit the crime. or should we all waste tax dollars and lives locking people up for bogus crimes and non violent drug offenses?
Drugs lead to more crime/violence
Say it louder and once more for good measure.
@@mitchellpurcell1715 i think he missed the part about them trying to get drug money and killed the girl
That part!!!
Thanks walker
I'm surprised they haven't repealed this law already being that California is one of if not the most liberal state in the country.
California is amazingly surprising when it comes to their legislation. The state is very strict on sentencing guidelines but extremely anti-police
Good intentioned law with unanticipated side effects
should be 3 misdemeanor= 1 strike and felony= 2 strike
Exactly true
Well I guess this story proves that californians can learn, it takes a long time and the cost is high but they can learn
So it's really because of Davis lol. If he doesn't kill that 12 year old it never happens.
THEY SHOULD MAKE A LAW FOR SHOPLIFTERS AND GIVEM ALL THE CHAIR
I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND.
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laws are just for us peasants. dont see corperations and polticans on trial.
Good
Misdemeanors count under 3 strikes? Damn
He didn't know but u can still get himmed up be careful who u roll whith
how did we go from 3 strikes, to no bail?
Lefty scums took over California.
Trash liberal Democrats. Trash liberal media.
They changed this law years ago dudes that got washed up got out alot of them
I remember him when he was housed on MJ4 APod
Doesn’t matter if you get 25yrs for a low level crime you had chances you committed 1 bad crime went to prison and came out and didn’t change you get your 2nd strike for another bad crime you to prison you now have another chance to change but no you decide to commit a low lvl crime and get 25yrs then too bad you had several chances to change so now deal with it you’re an adult you
Knew the consequences
That's easier said than done im a carrer criminal background and i still get the impulse to do wrong
Inmates would complain about the 3 strikes law. I'd ask them, "Do you have kids?". If they said yes, I'd ask them, "How many chances to you give your kids if they misbehave? One, two or three? They are kids and as such, they're stupid. You are an adult and you already had 2 chances. How stupid are you to break the law again knowing you'd be facing a third strike? So I don't feel sorry for you!".
I don't think u understand what the three strike law is
Sell drugs 3x u go for life
Sell drugs 2x at age 18-20...Dui... At 40.... U face life
It's not only violent crime
And to be convicted of a violent crime they don't even need a victim
Who are you
Countless people caught life sentences....before the real target of the law was affected
Fresnecks Woods
If you go light on crime you get California where business are leaving due to rampant theft.
Rather than prison for drug users stealing and petty crime the should be made a labor camp service , minimum 1 year , hard labor for at least 8hrs a day then rehab after that ,not a soft rehab where they get coddled but somewhere you really gotta put in work. all in a controlled environment , pay for their labor should be reduced to pay for all their housing and needs while serving their 1 year and remaining monies could be put on a tab where they can purchase things from commissary like candy bars etc , give them a taste of what it’s like to work in the real world while in a structured environment. I think a lot of addicts get so lost they just give up and the thought of working seems so out of reach. I like to think most people want to have some purpose in life and working is a good way to achieve that. Now violent criminals should go to prison and it should be tough , a place that isn’t a hangout , it should be a war zone so that people would opt for the work camps and the rest can stab and rape eachother. Private prison systems have made prison a for profit industry and the tax payers are footing the bill, it costs over 100k a year to have someone in prison where they contribute nothing , some families in calfornia work 2 incomes 40+hrs each a week to barely make 60-70k and they have to raise a family on that, how the fuck is California raping it’s citizens like that? This is why so many drug offenses are just tickets now , theft is insane because there’s no penalty and bums are everywhere. California politicians are like abusive parents , the 3 strike law is like the parent who never tries to parent but instead blows up and yells at you or hits you when you make a mistake. The other what we have now is like the vacant parent who is not concerned , blank , on Xanax checked out self consumed. 3 strike is a good law but should be for violet crime though I also believe in the death penalty unfortunately even with all the modern forensics like dna cameras gps it takes way too long to execute people that are 99.999999999% guilty and instead drags things out so it costs so much Money they abandoned it. Dont think the leftist democrats care about people here in California by not putting them in prison and abolishing death penalty, they don’t , it’s money that’s it , if they cared they would make work camps not pass out needles and crack pipes, they would have labor camps not tickets where people just crumple them up
Gotta love this city we In I hate the laws but gotta pay the Piper
I agree with this law
😊 would say that the sentence that he got was backlit for the murder and robbery of the young lady.
It was a knee jerk reaction and hasn't been very effective!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
They need to let them out and lock 🔐 up the new people that come in packs and steal
Man behind it or the man who messed it up for everybody else? Big difference
That some B's they make a law just for him n he doesn't get life but next person get life while he gets out n committed more crimes and still didn't get life until two more charges I ain't never going to la 💯
It should be your out literately like on the third strike you ☠️!!! The jails would not be over run with crimes and people would think before they commit crimes!
Ive never been to the west coast. But it seems to me that everyone from Fresno is a criminal 😂
This law was too broad and that’s why there were so many people in jail for longer periods of time that shouldn’t have been it needs to be rewritten and specific..
We are all adults, you know right from wrong! Take a chance! See what happens, don't be crying later, l didn't know.😡
We need three strikes back asap.
F@#! 3 strikes... or should be 3 violent felonies.
I fully support the three strikes law.
How's repealing that law working out for 'ya?
These men living by means of violent crime.. Should be cuffed, and buried.. No arraignment.. Listed as escaped custody.. Where about.. Unknown.
WHILE IT'S ABSURD TO IMPRISON SOMEONE FOR STEALING A PIZZA 🍕 SLICE, (OR A $130 JACKET), I have to wonder why someone with two strikescagainst them already would still steal the slice!
It seems anyone with an above room temperature IQ who had two strikes would be walking on eggshells, staying on the "straight and narrow", and avoid ANYTHING that might come even kinda-sorta close to breaking a law.
So, partbofvthe problem is with the criminals! (DUHH!)
I think its good a law---theres so many men and women out here that believe they can get around accountability.
Of course Fresno
If you're totally unfit for society
what r the options? Devil's Island
They need to change the definitions
What politicians pushed the new law?!
hell yea great laws
26hr. After a 357 😢
Wow black people suffer for this law and dude gets slapped on the rist
Bless you Kimber
😂
Laws are always inspired when crimes are committed against white upper class individuals.
Yep this happened around the same time the little black American girl was executed on camera but her killer didn't get convicted.
Kimber Reynolds dad was. Wedding Photographer but nice try racist
Lmao what? Some woman gets shot in the head coming out of a bar over a purse snatch and you're defending the perps. Sounds like you got a strike.
They need to abolish the 3 strikes Law , the reason is a lot of people don’t really know how the district attorney manipulate the law and stretch it to the point it damn near breaking the law that it was intended for district attorney will give you 2 strikes for your first offense with no prison time they call it a turn around you go to prison to get a number and come right back to county less then 2 months tops
Tattoo on his neck “FresnoNeck”
I support the original version
It's simple
DONT BREAK THE FUCKING LAW