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LEAP Nomination

I recommend Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) because they work on the root cause of the most pressing health, security, and civil rights subject in the United States: the war on drugs. Recent CDC data shows that heroin use now qualifies as an epidemic. The Center attributes the heroin boom to the prescription opioid boom of the last 20 years. The drug war approach disables the most vulnerable from finding help. Prohibition's emphasis on arrest yields an exceptional imbalance: the US has 5% of the world's people, but 25% of its prisoners. Incarceration does not rehabilitate offenders. Quite the opposite. Data clearly shows that the incarcerated are at higher risk for re-admission - and that their families, especially their children, experience higher risk for incarceration. That dynamic is a clear and present national security risk, including to California. Just this last weekend, in Chicago, more than 50 people were shot. For the second straight weekend.

Inextricable and Mutual Sadness

Measured by % of the overall population, black men in the US are most disproportionately victims of fatal police violence; black women are also disproportionately killed. Whereas police kill Hispanics "equitably", only non-Hispanic white and Asian men, and women, are killed less than their share of the general population. In Asians’ case, much much less. That inequitable pattern is amplified in California. In California, Asians make up 15% of the population and less than 4% of police killings, a proportionality gap 3x more favorable than the gap for non-Hispanic whites. By comparison, black Californians are 6.5% of the state population and 16% of police homicides: an inequality 38% worse than the already inequitable national benchmark. That data led to basic factual and analytical errors, including among high-profile California officials. Those errors also revealed the best and brightest's basic ignorance of #BlackLivesMatter most important messages. Take future CA gove

Interactive Map of the 50 Most Violent Cities in the World

As measured by murder rate, these are the most violent cities in the world, excluding "war zones". Please click here for an interactive version. Please click here to read about the source data. Please click here Data source (accessed November 2015) : http://www.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/biblioteca/download/6-prensa/199-the-50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2014 Country Level Pivot: Honduras 0.12% Venezuela 0.07% El Salvador 0.06% Brazil 0.05% South Africa 0.04% Guatemala 0.04% United States 0.04% Mexico 0.04% Jamaica 0.04% Colombia 0.04% Grand Total 0.05% source: http://www.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/biblioteca/download/6-prensa/199-the-50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2014 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NFPSKTvt-LXA0Lor21H1qYeNS9EqUTgD4XxBlFMzk8s/pubhtml?gid=733626848&single=true

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