Posted on 12/24/2024 1:09:26 AM PST by dennisw
“This is Orange County, b—h. They don’t play,” lamented the alleged thief.
An accused California shoplifter was stunned to learn she might be slapped with a felony charge after “new laws” that crack down on low-level theft, police video shows.
The Seal Beach Police Department in Orange County published a montage of security, dash and body camera videos that show three women allegedly lifting more than $600 in merch from an Ulta Beauty before officers caught up with the gals, slapped them in cuffs and shoved them into a squad car.
That was when one suspect asks if they could be charged with a felony, to which her accomplice delivers the sobering news: “B—h, new laws. Stealing is a felony.”
“This is Orange County, b—h. They don’t play,” lamented the alleged thief.
The new laws in question are Proposition 36 — a ballot initiative that went into effect Wednesday undoing soft-on-crime policies limiting law enforcement’s ability to crack down on lesser crimes like shoplifting.
Under one law passed in 2014, thieves could only be charged with a misdemeanor if the stolen items they were less than $950.
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No punishment?
No crime occurred.
Laws must be enforced, criminals must pay for their crimes.
This has been going on for far too long.
Book ‘em Dano!!
The seal beach police are used to long beach girls
Wanna bet those designer handbags the perps are sporting are stolen, too...
Tory Burch and the other is an MCM, I think...
No, they didn’t buy those.
Yeah, Newsome, you incompetent fool. You're in the wrong state. You and your ilk are on the wrong planet. Leave. And never come back.
“The seal beach police are used to long beach girls”
I remember Long Beach. The only time I ever jumped into the Pacific Ocean. There were oil refineries in the background. Compton? I doubt they are there anymore.
I am an East Coast guy.
I really thought I was clicking on to a Bee thread.
Expensive designer bags that look like reusable grocery bags - but that’s another topic..
“I really thought I was clicking on to a Bee thread”
lol. Me too
Making Theft a Felony could hurt business for the professional thieves. They might have to go find another line of work. In the Utopia that Gavin has been trying to create they can get ObummerCare fully subsidized because the Accounting standards of that industry use green paper & Bitcoin, not forms 1099 and 1040. They can do $949 jobs, get caught less than 5% of the time, and if caught use public defenders and a $30 trip to a therapist To explain it all away & have to write-off those expenses and loss of merchandise as the cost of business.
Now that it’s a felony then it can’t be chalked off as mental illness and much more paperwork & risks of long term incarceration. It’s going to send many in this industry shopping for new sanctuaries that allow the Retail Theft Industry to flourish.
Any existing retail chain would be wise to get out of the new targeted areas. If you want to have access to retail shopping in your local area then you better get rid of the politicians who put up with the Retail Theft Industry. You can’t have both.
Back to walking the streets it beats working.
So it’s now illegal to break the law in parts of California?
I’m guessing that doesn’t apply to illegally sneaking into the country.
Democrats allowed rampant theft because they want to eliminate private property. There was a backlash, so the dems have retreated a little. But I doubt that california is going to become a shining light of a state where laws are enforced and the right to benefit from the fruit of one’s labor is respected. This is for show, and then they will go back to allowing the “oppressed” to take what they want from the “oppressors.”
I actually went to seal beach (stayed there on the way back to Japan) and it’s a very nice place. Long beach (at least south long beach) is now a ghetto. It’s common for long beach/south Central folks to hit seal beach/cypress locations because they can’t afford the gas to north LA.
All the gas stuff is still there and the Yankees are everywhere in the ocean. It’s actually more than when I lived there in the 90s.
Yankees= tankers
Wtf kind of spell check was that?
“All the gas stuff is still there and the Yankees are everywhere in the ocean. It’s actually more than when I lived there in the 90s.”
My visit to the Long Beach ocean was 1986...... So was comparable a time frame
OR FAKES
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