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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is calling for legislative betterment to support criminals disconnected the streets and successful situation aft participating successful a multi-agency cognition called "Operation Shock Collar."
The cognition resulted successful 89 defendants being charged, 38 of whom were charged with national offenses.
The cognition targeted pack members successful "rural" parts of Fresno County, including Huron and Coalinga. It included the corporate efforts of respective agencies, including the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.
Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni says it was "amazing" to spot the results of the agencies' corporate efforts.
"I americium precise arrogant of the occurrence of this operation," Zanoni said. "Getting 58 individuals into custody retired of areas similar Huron and Coalinga [will] person a important interaction connected nationalist safety."
Zanoni says that due to the fact that of this operation, the sheriff's bureau was capable to lick a homicide from 2017. "We bash not hide those victims," helium said.
Fresno County Attorney Lisa Smittcamp says operations similar this are indispensable arsenic the satellite "has changed implicit the past decade, and we person seen the transgression justness strategy beryllium dismantled."
According to Smittcamp, the mode that the legislature has acted successful the past 10 years has made it astir intolerable for prosecutors astatine the authorities level to efficaciously prosecute juveniles who are "gun-toting, drug-selling, sometimes murderers."
"They battle radical with weapons, they steal, they rob, they loot - it's a behaviour that's encouraged by their families," Smittcamp said. "A batch of pack unit and a batch of pack activities go familial, and pack members rise small pack members."
Smittcamps says that for existent alteration to happen, legislators astatine the authorities level request to put successful broad situation reform.
"I anticipation that we tin truly promote and marque radical successful Sacramento who walk these laws understand," Smittcamp said. "Without the quality to incarcerate them and really bash thing for them portion they are successful prison, to rehabilitate them, to thatch them skills, to springiness them occupation skills, we're conscionable going to support spinning, spinning, spinning."
