Posted on 04/26/2018 9:05:36 AM PDT by davikkm
California crime is on the rise and many residents of the Golden State are now regretting the passage of a significant law implemented a few years ago that essentially emboldened criminals despite its good intentions.
In November 2014, California voted in favor of Prop 47, a law aimed at reducing charges from felonies to misdemeanors for drug and property crimes, including theft. The intention was to reduce the state’s prison population and emphasize rehabilitation, helping drug addicts keep a felony off their record for what lawmakers view as minor crimes.
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Thieves should be summarily executed.
Break ins around me have picked up. Vehicles mostly. I live in a fairly good area, cops always on patrol but they can’t be everywhere.
Same as mess with similar thinking in some Florida school districts - keep criminal elements out of jail and provide “rehabilitation” instead. Human nature should have warned them their “good intentions” would be taken advantage of by those with bad intentions to just use the leniency to their criminal benefit.
Que the drug legalization FReepers who think that this is an unjust “war on drugs.”
Laws should never be proposed/passed based upon “good intentions” but on the needs of the people after a rational debate. Emotion should be eradicated from all legislation.
Stoner States = Skid Row
Car break ins are getting to be quite common in my neighborhood. We call them car door checkers. They go through the neighborhood at night checking for people who have left their cars unlocked. Then they steal what they can. Occasionally they will actually break into a car which is rare.
I have security cameras and have given the recordings to the police in trying to help catch these guys. I am in the process of upgrading my cameras yet again.
Women politicians are here to stay.
The drug warrior statists beat us first.
Leftists are happy that their buddies are picking up a few extra bucks.
We live in a small town and periodically thieves come through in the middle of the night and hit cars. I think they rotate through the area.
Very frustrating. But what I find interesting is that the same people who get hit have two car garages full of stuff (usually crap IMO) and leave their cars outside. One would think after getting robbed or vandalized they would clean out their garage and put their cars inside. Nope. They just piss and moan.
Unintended consequences... or is it intended?
“””I have security cameras and have given the recordings to the police in trying to help catch these guys. I am in the process of upgrading my cameras yet again.”””
So, the law allows them to steal from you too. Money spent on security is the same thing as stealing your wealth.
The cameras are for more than catching the thieves. I am improving the night time vision of the cameras.
Stupidity has its consequences... Often not good.
After all, that is money that stimulates the economy. For every $1 fenced, the economy benefits by say $3 (queue the stupid biotch Nancy Peloser)
They had no good intentions in Florida. They wanted to balance out the arrests of this o many blacks because, obviously, there should be no racial differences in crime.
There are two or three homes like the one you describe.
Huge garages stuffed with boxes and who knows what.
I have half a garage right now. As stuff from the old pad is sorted and stored, I will will be able to park in it finally.
Fabio has been a conservative for a long time.
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