{"id":489275,"date":"2018-06-21T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a8b5a98060dda050da0f794038ed9e1c"},"modified":"2018-06-21T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:55:35","slug":"prop-47-lessened-racial-disparities-in-drug-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=489275","title":{"rendered":"Prop. 47 lessened racial disparities in drug arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, which reclassified drug possession offenses from felonies or &#8220;wobblers&#8221;\u2014which prosecutors can charge as either felonies or misdemeanors\u2014to misdemeanors, and in the process reduced the state&#8217;s prison and jail populations. Now, a study out of UC San Francisco has quantified the effects of the ballot measure, which was at the leading edge of a national movement to reduce incarceration rates and change the criminal justice approach to substance use disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, which reclassified drug possession offenses from felonies or &#8220;wobblers&#8221;&mdash;which prosecutors can charge as either felonies or misdemeanors&mdash;to misdemeanors, and in the process reduced the state&#8217;s prison and jail populations. Now, a study out of UC San Francisco has quantified the effects of the ballot measure, which was at the leading edge of a national movement to reduce incarceration rates and change the criminal justice approach to substance use disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489276,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489275\/revisions\/489276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}