"Our politicians have engaged in the classic 'bait and switch' scheme. They brought us into the store with an icon of Richard Allen Davis, but now that we're in the store, it is full of pizza thieves and pot smokers."
--Vincent Schiraldi, director of San Francisco's Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, referring to the fact that more than four times as many pot smokers as murderers have been imprisoned under California's "three strikes" law. The measure was pushed into law after ex-convict Richard Allen Davis was charged with kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Polly Klaas.
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