California Sheriff Reveals Why He Supports Criminal Trump, Saying 'I'm Changing Teams'

A prominent California sheriff has declared his allegiance to Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election.

Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco made the proud proclamation in a video posted to social media Saturday, joking that he was “changing teams” in the process.

The comments from the top police officer in the city between Los Angeles and Palm Springs came days after the ex-president was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records, in what some see as a difficult task for the current administration.

In turn, Bianco, a well-known conservative, admitted he liked some of the things state leaders were doing, before disapproving of decisions on crime and housing.

California's would-be governor said he was “tired” of such problems – before making a tongue-in-cheek admission that he thought putting a 77-year-old criminal in the White House might be a good idea.

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“I think I’m going to change teams,” Bianco said.

“I think they're on the right track, but I don't think they're doing enough,” he added of state leaders.

“Trump 2024, baby, let’s save this country and make America great again.”

The statement came after the officer explained what he called a “love affair” between state leaders and criminals.

He said it's based on the “belief that criminals are not responsible for their own actions” after the crime rate in Riverside County reached 39.04 per 1,000 residents last year, one of the highest in the country.

“They are a victim of society,” Bianco continued, before citing an alleged belief held by state leaders that “criminals are not responsible for their own actions.”

“It’s society’s fault,” he continued wryly. “It’s the companies’ fault.” It's the cops' fault. Maybe it's my fault.

He then pointed out that some state leaders have criticized their respective justice systems and law enforcement for being “systemically racist” — a claim that has allowed some repeat offenders to be released to fight alleged “bias “.

They “let them out,” the sheriff continued, lamenting how leaders in California and Washington give criminals “a place to live… money…” and even “drugs and drugs.” 'alcohol now'.

Bianco said he was “tired” of such treatment, admitting that his colleagues at Golden State were “wrong” to implement such guidelines.

The grizzled veteran went on to say he had done everything in his power over the past three decades to “keep our community safe by arresting criminals and putting them in prison,” but leaders at the of the State stood in his way.

He lamented how those leaders and the once-great state of California have become somewhat pro-crime in recent years, due to laws that have allowed violent offenders, by and large, to exploit the justice system.

“Over the past five years, I have been very critical of our governor for cutting our prison budgets, for releasing prisoners early and for closing our prisons,” he said, four years after kneeling in solidarity with Riverside protesters following the murder of George Floyd.

“I have criticized our state legislature for passing laws making it harder to imprison people. I criticized their changing laws that allow prisoners to get out early. And I've criticized our attorney general because he doesn't seem to care about crime.

“I think it’s time to put a criminal in the White House,” the officer continued.

California Attorney General Robert Andres Bonta has held the position since 2021.

Seven years earlier, California had passed one of the state's largest criminal justice reform measures in Proposition 47, to “ensure that prison spending is focused on violent and serious offenses” and “to maximize alternatives to non-serious and non-violent crimes” apart from the most serious crimes. conviction.

Democrats, during this period, have presented these directions as both progressive and effective, but after about a decade, they are having second thoughts.

This is due to a growing sense in the state that property crimes have gotten out of control, leading more state leaders to call for some sort of overhaul of the 2014 election measures.

This is a major change from a decade ago, when Californians approved the initiative in hopes of seeing drug possession and property crime numbers dissipate, classifying them as misdemeanors rather than criminal offenses.

The reversal of previous tough-on-crime laws has largely failed, state data shows it — the number of shoplifting incidents hasn't decreased since 2014, but arrests for it have decreased.

Police and retailers have also become less aggressive in engaging and apprehending shoplifters, with organized retail theft rings, flash mobs, and other similar phenomena surfacing in the years since the pandemic .

Additionally, it remains increasingly difficult for prosecutors to consolidate charges and charge repeat shoplifters with misdemeanors.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who supported Proposition 47 from its inception, remains adamant about the measure's supposed benefits.

But with 2024 already underway, there is at least one proposed measure that, if presented to voters in November, would roll back parts of the law, the mayors of two major liberal cities, San Francisco and San Jose, already putting their full weight behind the law. initiative.

Meanwhile, there are at least a dozen proposals in the state Legislature to change or overturn the law — while officials in cities like Los Angeles and Riverside remain more hesitant to support such a vote.

However, these proposals would also have to be approved by voters – just as Proposition 47 did when it was passed by California voters on November 5, 2014.

The law has since made certain nonviolent property crimes, valued at no more than $950, into misdemeanors.

It also upgraded some simple drug possession offenses to misdemeanors.