Posted on 09/27/2019 7:02:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
A few years ago, California passed one in a series of bills aimed at emptying the jails and prisons. Proposition 47carried the disingenuous name of “the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act and its stated purpose was to keep non-violent offenders out of jail. To achieve this goal, the state decriminalized a number of lesser offenses, including retail theft. The law raised the value of the amount of merchandise someone could steal while still only being charged with a misdemeanor to nearly one thousand dollars.
To the great surprise of the government, people noticed this change and began taking advantage of it. They have now recorded multiple years of steadily increasing, organized robbery. These plots are known as “mass grab and dash” thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time, grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway. Not only are robberies on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this?
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Maybe. But one of the signal characteristics of criminals and liberals is the inability to grok consequences.
Give a couple years before UPS trucks start getting robbed.
Everything is leading to a culling. Depopulation. Displacement, control, then depopulation.
Then more control.
Good point.
Something you're not likely to hear: "Yo yo, Ja'Neesha! Drop them earrings - you takin' us over $1,000, b**ch!"
I worked in retail, and actually this started to happen back in the 80’s.
Local police department frankly have too much on their plate in a lot of areas to be responding to every call for a junkie who’s shoplifting to finance his next fix.
The Civil Recovery thing came into being then. Frankly my employers would have rather had the money than a conviction (although good luck actually collecting on that judgment).
California geniuses - ya can’t beat’em!
Ten people stealing $900 worth of goods is only nine misdemeanors.
Walmart employees, including any security they may have, has been told they can’t touch them as they walk out with stuff. A friend recently witnessed a lady with a full basket of groceries just walking out screaming at the employees.....you can’t touch me! And they don’t.
I live in California and I feel like Lot living in Sodom. Trouble is my homeowners insurance doesn’t cover brimstone from heaven.
Yes! In the olden days, a customer would go to the front desk of the general store and present the clerk with a shopping list, the clerk would go to the shelves and pick the items and bring them to the front desk for the customer to purchase.
Customers didn’t prowl the store, the clerk knew exactly where everything was located and was much quicker than any customer could ever be.
The down side was there wasn’t much in the way of impulse buying, but who had excess cash anyway?
Piggly Wiggly got the customers herded into a serpentine path that went by every shelf and product, that boosted sales in a time when Godly customers remembered ‘Thou shall not steal’.
Then customers were finally trained to use a shopping cart and it was off to the races!
Don’t look back, unless you have an extreme craving for salt...
Come to Kalifornia and witness CAGOP. Always asking for money and very little public action that I have seen.
There are 47 states that are better.
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Ok, I’ll bite. Which are the other two states equal to or worse than California in your opinion?
New York, New Jersey.
I suppose one could make good arguments for several more.
And thank you for recognizing it’s my opinion, not necessarily a statement of objective fact.
Ahh yes, those two. As former resident of both, we are in accord...IMHO
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More documentation that liberals are stupid.
“More brick and mortar stores going to “order online and pick it up” and “free home delivery”
No chance of theft (aside from CC fraud).”
You’re forgetting the theft off people’s porches. The retailer and shipper have to cover that if it was left on the porch.
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