Ask Granny
Posted on 09/27/2019 7:02:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
A few years ago, California passed one in a series of bills aimed at emptying the jails and prisons. Proposition 47carried the disingenuous name of “the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act and its stated purpose was to keep non-violent offenders out of jail. To achieve this goal, the state decriminalized a number of lesser offenses, including retail theft. The law raised the value of the amount of merchandise someone could steal while still only being charged with a misdemeanor to nearly one thousand dollars.
To the great surprise of the government, people noticed this change and began taking advantage of it. They have now recorded multiple years of steadily increasing, organized robbery. These plots are known as “mass grab and dash” thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time, grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway. Not only are robberies on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this?
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Whoda thunk?
It’s a free for all, you can walk into Walmart and walkout with $500 worth of stuff with impunity. you still have to get through any security guys they have but the Police will NOT even respond to shoplifting calls, it is a Civil Matter!!!
More stores going out of business, more loss of jobs, and more lawlessness.
Does anyone understand California?
All according to the Leftist Plan
LOL. They have done the same thing in Dallas, Texas. I am sure it will work out differently there...…/s
The Libiots always do the opposite of what should be done. Maybe harsher penalties would deter the criminals from stealing!
Radical Democrats taking care of Radical Democrats.....
“These plots are known as “mass grab and dash” thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time, grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway. Not only are robberies on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this?”
I think this is more race and age. These robberies would be over $1000.00.
Democrats couldn’t run a state if it had a steering wheel and an automatic transmission.
One symptom of the mental disorder called liberalism is the total inability to foresee consequences of actions.
More brick and mortar stores going to “order online and pick it up” and “free home delivery”
No chance of theft (aside from CC fraud).
This will make the store into a show room, with one example of each and a kiosk to place your order. Then have it come out from the stock room all paid for,
Ask Granny
Liberalism is all about punishing the good and rewarding the bad!
Yes. That's why I no longer live there.
I believe plenty of us do just as many of us understand my state, the People's Republic of New York. You have multiple AOC types in state government who either sincerely believe the BS they're peddling or sincerely want to tear down the society. Regardless of which they are, you get laws like decriminalizing retail theft which satisfies both of them.
California looks like it’s on its way to becoming the Mad Max world in a few years.
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