Representative Howard L. Berman

District 2 California, Democrat

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WilliamArp

Posted 122 days ago.

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HR 1064: Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act or the Youth PROMISE Act - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to establish a PROMISE Advisory Panel to assist the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in: (1) assessing and developing standards and practices to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . What an altruistic proposal! Trouble is, this creative technique has been tried and proven to be a political victim of job security! It has been my professional experience that whenever a program has been proven to effectively divert hard-core juvenile delinquency out of the justice system, subsequent improvement in recidivism was met with fear and trepidation concerning penal system job losses. When you have a strong union representing guards and staff, the consequence is quashed systems, procedures and programs. The only difference here is an obvious attempt to impose federal control over state and local Juvenile Justice Systems. California legislators supporting this measure could easily research the success of The Manchester Program, a behavior modification program for hard-core juvenile delinquents housed at the Orange County Juvenile Hall in 1976. Following a couple of successful years, political pressure from California Youth Authority was instrumental in getting the program closed-down because subsequent recidivism rate reductions threatened prison staffing status quo. Anyone can check this out because it is a matter of record. It would be more cost-effective to confirm that this has already been tried. Today, such a program would have even less opportunity to survive in our prevailing atmosphere of Administration support of unions. However, once Federal control has been exerted over state and local governments, what are the chances of reversal? Perhaps this proposal is not expected to succeed but merely another progressive tax-and-spend proposal to create revenue enhancement for special interests to fund pending Democratic campaigns for the November election. One way to avoid this and reverse the prevailing political trend is to get out the vote to replace all Progressive legislators with Constitutional Conservatives, willing to rewrite all these constitutional laws and restore our unalienable rights and freedoms defined and explained in our revered Founding Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . If you would like to see who is supporting this proposal, you can find the list on govit.com You may be surprised to discover approximately 230 House Democrats are joined by 10 Republicans. Does this make it a bipartisan effort? I don't think so! The most obvious message is that Progressives are present in both parties! Don't forget to vote on November 2nd!

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