“How can you people in CA allow such stupid things become law?”
How can such stupid people even stay alive? Maybe the criminal and prisoner communities have more power than we thought?
All of these problems were compounded by the feds telling the state that we had too many prisoners in jail and we had to let a lot fo them out due to overcrowded prisons. Instead of pushing back and telling the damned feds MYOB, we let them out and crime soared.
The staggering stupidity abounds at every level. The latest manifestation is the incredibly stupid “defund the police.”
Telling the feds to MTOB doesn’t help the problem of overcrowding in prisons and passing stupid laws like the $950 law is even more stupid. I think you take non-violent offenders, put them in “tent camps” like Joe Arpaio did in AZ, and you take them out every day dressed in pink coveralls as a chain gang and have them clean the human feces off the city streets, pick up used needles from the gutters, and throw buckets of cold water on people passed out in doorways. Keep the hardened criminals in the real prisons.