Legislature needs to fix list of ‘violent’ crimes

Words matter, we often hear in these days of a president notorious for loose verbiage.
They also matter in the California Penal Code, where the label “violent” is not applied to many crimes most people with common sense would unquestionably define as violent. Some examples: assault with a deadly weapon, soliciting murder, elder and child abuse, arson, human trafficking, plus some forms of rape and forced sodomy.
That word “violent,” or in this case “non-violent,&rdq