Posted on 11/01/2019 10:23:20 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
In a lighted garage on one of San Francisco's busiest streets, a young man in baggy trousers and messy brown hair pulled down his pants. He had been hiding two pairs of stolen jeans with the tags still on them. He handed them to another man waiting nearby, took some money, pulled up his pants and headed back into another store on Market Street — home to the city's high-end designers and big-chain retail shops.
The incident wasn't a one-off. These brazen acts of petty theft and shoplifting are a dangerous and all-too-common consequence of Proposition 47, a referendum passed five years ago that critics say effectively gives shoplifters and addicts the green light to commit crimes as long as the merchandise they steal or the drugs they take are less than $950 in value. The decision to downgrade theft of property valued below the arbitrary figure from felony to misdemeanor, together with selective enforcement that focuses on more “serious” crimes, has resulted in thieves knowing they can brazenly shoplift and merchants knowing the police will not respond to their complaints, say critics.
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Proposition 47 is seen by critics as one of California's biggest blunders. Supported by the state Democratic Party and championed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the referendum was passed by a wide margin in 2014. The idea behind it was to reduce certain non-violent felonies to misdemeanors in order to free up resources for cops and prosecutors to focus on violent offenders.
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Whoulda thunkit?
Good. The only way things will get better is for enough people to realize how bad they have become.
Steal moar stuff!
See? Now Califzuela can claim lower crime stats.
You can always steal more expensive stuff when it’s on sale.
Gee.... really?
Are they sure?
How can that be?
I used to see this as a local Walmart neighborhood (grocery) store back in California. Someone would go up to a self-checkout register with some pricey items from the pharmacy and beauty sections, ring up the items while bagging them, then cancel the transaction during the request for payment. They would them pick up the bag(s), look around like they are seeking help, and proceed to walk out of the store with items not paid for.
Vigilantism will be the next logical step.
In a lawless society - Individuals are forced to protect themselves.
In San Fransicko - no one cares though. Businesses are just going to pass the theft losses onto shoppers. Who are already paying exorbitant taxes. Who cares?
If they shoplift from a national chain store the chain will just amortize that loss across all of their other stores by raising the price.
So, we chumps in Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Arkansas end up paying for it.
lol
Boy my ex criminal mind is thinking how you could get any army of kids to steal and pay the pennies on the dollar and then flip the items at even 40 cents on the dollar.
That was once called racketeering :)
But I guess it would be called a misdemeanor in CA
IOW, how could these people be so dumb?
To quote from the great movie It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: “I said it before, I’ll say it again: I didn’t want to move to California.”
COOL.
This is just a roundabout way of telling the subclass that it’s OK to steal from Whitey. The government does it through taxes. Street thugs now can do it too.
Who will then buy on-line and the brick and mortar stores will go bankrupt, laying off all their employees, who will then file for unemployment..................
Asking for a friend...
There are some nice TVs on sale for less than $950. Hard to hide in pants, so just put it in the cart and roll it out to your car...
Per “incident”...
Fagin, IZZAT YOU?...................
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