Trump wants to break California’s sanctuary state law: 5 things to know
Trump wants to break California’s sanctuary state law: 5 things to know
- January 28, 2025
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and criminology, law & society, CalMatters, January 28, 2025
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A 2020 analysis of California’s law by researchers at the University of California, Irvine examined the state’s 2018 violent and property crime rates and compared them to estimated crime rates had Gov. Brown not signed the sanctuary policy. The study found that the law did not have a significant impact on either violent crime or property crime. Charis Kubrin, who authored the study, said the takeaway of her research was that changing the state’s sanctuary status is not likely to result in major reductions in crime. “Getting rid of SB 54, for example, is not going to make crime go down because it didn’t cause crime to go up in the first place,” Kubrin said.
For the full story, please visit https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/01/california-sanctuary-state/.
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