It has also taken Schubert to some of the darker corners of the human psyche - details she doesn’t shy away from - though she prefers to talk about the victims. That work culminated in the arrest and prosecution of the “ Golden State Killer” who terrorized the Sacramento area in the 1970s and ’80s. Schubert made a name for herself in the Sacramento district attorney’s office by using DNA forensics to prosecute cold cases. Here are four other highlights from our conversation with Schubert: “Talk to the retailers or the people that are actually living it every day,” she said.įor those voters with buyers’ remorse about the state’s past criminal justice “reforms,” Schubert is presenting herself as a tough, nonpartisan corrective. Schubert discounts the official data, noting that crime is often underreported. Recent reports from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office and the Public Policy Institute of California found that reported crime has increased, but just back up to 2019 levels after a dip during the worst of the pandemic, while an alarming increase in the homicide rate follows a national trend. “I think we’re at a time in California, right now, where people are reeling (from)…a tsunami of poor public policies,” she said.Īvailable crime statistics paint a more uncertain picture.
But to finish in the top two in the June 7 primary and make it to the November ballot, she’ll also need to snatch the “tough on crime” mantle from Republicans Nathan Hochman and Eric Early. This year she’s hoping to unseat incumbent Democrat Rob Bonta. In 2018, after a bruising reelection battle to be Sacramento County’s top prosecutor, she left the party and became a “no party preference” voter. Schubert may sound like many in the state GOP in her criticisms of California’s liberal shift on criminal justice, but she isn’t a Republican.
57 making it easier for inmates charged with all but the most serious crimes to apply for early parole. In fact, Proposition 47, which voters passed in 2014, reclassified certain crimes, including theft of items worth less than $950, as misdemeanors.