“Even if you catch somebody, which is very rare, there is no punishment behind it. So that’s another layer of frustration. … It’s almost making a mockery of the entire judicial system.
Un-freaking believable. Only satisfaction comes from the ultra liberal Palo Alto residents reaping the results of their progressive actions.
It’s amazing that California voters, who only a few years ago approved the Three Strikes law to get recidivists off the streets, would vote for such a law. I suspect our new “open primary” system may be to blame, at least in part. It resulted in a race between two Democrats for California’s US Senate seat, with no write-ins being counted, so in last year’s general election, many Republicans probably stayed home.
Benitez, who has been on the front lines of law enforcement for nearly 30 years, said that under new laws, particularly Propositions 47 and 57, criminals are not going to jail for property crimes, and they know it.
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Even Stevie Wonder could have seen that one coming, and he’s a liberal.
As we would drive through ‘East Palo Alto’, my father an ex NYPD Cop, would tell us to lock our car door and role up our window.