Did you know that in the past, research showed that hiring more probation officers resulted in increased probationer violations?

 Based upon the reasoning vs SB91 that I keep seeing ad nauseam, the “common sense” conclusion would have been that having more, not fewer probation officers on the job caused an uptick in violations, including criminal activities. 

But you know that wasn’t the case, don’t you? Turns out that having more POs didn’t cause more violations/crimes: It was just that there were enough probation officers to adequately monitor their now reasonable caseloads - that had formerly been high - of probationers. 

Violations/crimes had not increased, but had gone uncounted because probation officers did not have the time to closely monitor and catch probationers committing them. 

There was the same amount of crime, only now it was being reported. 

Keep that in mind when you run around blaming everything from littering to murder on SB91.