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Car Break-Ins and Property Theft on the Rise in California Following Passage of Prop 47
IWB ^ | Bob Shanahan

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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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: breakins; california; prop47; propertytheft
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To: Cobra64

As long as the trash is disposed of, does it really matter?


41 posted on 04/26/2018 11:00:52 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: davikkm

“Break ins around me have picked up.”

Yup and they got my truck in 2015. While it probably ended up in a chop shop, I would like think it ended up in Syria and got blown to smithereens.


42 posted on 04/26/2018 11:09:37 AM PDT by Dawggie
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To: deadrock

Feminist politics is literally and figuratively killing society.


43 posted on 04/26/2018 12:50:01 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover
Right across the Western world.

It is as if they wish to be nothing more than chattel, by pushing for the collapse of the very society that protects them.

44 posted on 04/26/2018 12:56:35 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: Parley Baer

I had my car rifled in my driveway, then they put everything back in the car, when making their escape they saw the video camera aimed at the car..lol


45 posted on 04/26/2018 2:24:23 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: davikkm

It is such a puzzlement why the crime rate would rise when they put fewer criminals in jail.


46 posted on 08/08/2018 5:20:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=400><p> zXSEP5Z xnKL3lW XywCCJd)
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