Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act
Beiser and Solhem also gives a brief background on the Proposition’s origins, stating that former California governor Pete Wilson was the one who conceived the idea of the said proposed act, backed by criminal justice and victims’ rights groups, as well as law-enforcement officials. The article then proceeded to the main issue – that the said act would be ineffective to the California justice system, will further worsen the juvenile youth’s condition, and benefit only Wilson and his backers on the said proposition. All throughout the article, the authors gave their reasons for their denouncement of Proposal 21, which provided the readers several statements from organized youth activist groups, law enforcement officers, and the Catholic church.