Posted on 07/21/2021 7:57:53 PM PDT by blam
In yet another example of California’s decline under Democratic leadership, two men were caught on film casually walking out of a suburban Los Angeles TJ Maxx store while carrying armfulls of merchandise – just seven months after LA District Attorney George Gascón announced his office would no longer prosecute misdemeanor crimes such as shoplifting.
Thanks to Prop 47 thefts under $950 will not be prosecuted, so cops will not bother showing up. Just a reminder that you get what you voted for, California! pic.twitter.com/jWUPdJzy0A
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) July 20, 2021
The incident occurred at the TJ Maxx in Granada Hills. Neither man has been charged or arrested, though the LAPD continues to investigate the incident.
“They didn’t even run out, they walked out,” said LAPD Sgt. Jerretta Sandoz in a statement to CBS LA. “And so, that’s sending a message that we, the criminals, are winning.”
Sandoz, who serves as vice president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, said she blames the incident on Prop 47, a 2014 referendum that lowered criminal sentences on crimes such as shoplifting.
“If they’re caught, they’re probably given the equivalent of a traffic ticket,” she told CBS LA. “So it’s not taken seriously.”
“If you let these criminals think that they can go in and steal merchandise and steal things, what happens when someone tries to stop them,” Sandoz added. –Fox News
Recall that Gascón is the same DA who in April dissolved or downsized the city’s hardcore gangs and narcotics units ahead of a spike in homicides to 13-year highs – for which LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva directly blames him.
The video illustrates the latest in a spate of shoplifting across the state. In San Francisco, business owners and security officials are decrying the “lawlessness” in the city caused by shoplifters.
“This is really bad. I’ve been in the Bay area 20 years, I’ve never seen this,” a local security guard, J.C. Hernandez, told Fox News, adding “It’s just lawlessness … people are just openly coming in and stealing stuff.”
If you pass a law that says the police are not going to prosecute theft below $950, why would this be surprising. What it surprising is that the people in CA allow such laws to be passed in the first place.
Happens every day. Cops would never bother coming. Theft is legal.
Great! I will be going to the Marshall’s on Beverly Blvd and La Cienega - I need a new pair of running shoes - might pick up a sweatshirt while I am there. It will be under $950.
We no longer live in a civilized society.
Aka reparations
Aw, that’s OK because after all the brick and mortar stores are bankrupt and closed, everything will come from Amazon and will be drone-dropped on your doorstep.
If they are smart, businesses in Cali will start shutting down and relocating.
There’s really no difference with South Africa. Long-term One party leftist government, massive welfare state, political ideology of entitlement, victimhood and rage.
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Just doing what communists do. Looting, theft, then murder.
I bet that is not in the Korean neighborhood.
Maybe I could hire an "assistant" to make a second pass each day so that I can cut my visit time in half and save on lodging expenses.
Maybe follow that up with a week at Lake Tahoe, or maybe a short trip to go island hopping in Hawaii?
Not bad work if you can get it?
#idiocracy
That isn’t shoplifting. That is just slow motion looting, and daring the shopkeepers to stop you
The Entitlement Tribe
good for the goose, good for the gander.
Is it $950 per day or per visit?
“I bet that is not in the Korean neighborhood.”
Granada Hills used to be middle-upper income mostly white. Evidently the inner city animal species are moving in.
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