All because the political class allows it. The attack ads one can make on Kamala Harris write themselves.
Assault is a low level crime?
Insanity. All of it.
But you keep voting for marxists.
The political class ^encourages^ it.
Whitey has it because you are block.
You DON’T have it because you are black.
Just take it, it really his.
This is what socialist democracy IS.
I hate to take issue with the author, but under Prop 47 thefts under $950. were not reduced to Misdemeanors, they fall under an entirely new class of crimes known as INFRACTIONS, So now if a cop witnesses a property crime being committed, and he “determines” the value of the booty is under $950. He must issue the perp a citation and release him immediately. Also property trespass is the same deal. When we owned a commercial office building in Northern California, the only time the cops issued a citation to a “transient” was when the found a guy who had plugged in his electric blanket into one of our exterior plug outlets. They charged him with “theft of electricity.”
Unfortunately, this crap is spreading to Texas as well.
Recently, the Dallas County DA said his office would no longer prosecute theft under $750 or simple drug possession. Luckily, this is still Texas, so he faced a massive backlash, but he only walked it back a bit: his instruction won’t prevent arrests, just prosecutions, and his office will still prosecute if the theft was committed for “monetary gain.” In the mind of the DA, who apparently does his policy research by watching Les Miserables, most petty thefts are committed by impoverished people who will starve if they don’t steal a loaf of bread.
A year or so ago, the Austin City Council voted to order the chief of police not to even make arrests for theft under $750 and other purportedly “minor” crime because making such arrests somehow involves “targeting minorities.” As though minorities weren’t the chief victims of such crimes. As a result, Class C misdemeanor arrests are down 63% from last year.
I’ll chime in here having lived in the bay area on and off for 30 years
First of all if you’re going to live in the bay area why would you want to live in the fog?
Furthermore if you’re going to pay all that money why would you live somewhere where there’s no parking?
The best place to live in the bay area are one Marin county where I live and to the far east bay Walnut Creek down to Pleasanton
The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over 30,000 reports were filed, and the current average is 51 per day.
-————— Apologies to Henny Youngman
The democrats and their drugs... As long as they, and that would be the democratic politicians of commiefornia, continue to call drug dealing "low level chime" they will continue to spiral down into the dung hole of humanity until there is nothing left but rotting, stinking pile of....Mexico.
They won't be missed...