Posted on 12/11/2021 3:04:19 AM PST by Kaslin
My daughter has a nice little house in a safe neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
Until recently she never really had to worry about crime or her personal safety.
But now suburban places like hers in Northern California and Southern California are being hit by a crime wave that has never hit them before.
As you’ve seen on national TV, “smash-and-grab” gangs are hitting shopping malls like the one near her – the same one I often take my granddaughters to.
And now there are even young thugs who’ll follow you home from the mall and break into your house.
It’s no wonder my daughter is afraid to go out to her mailbox in the dark by herself.
She’s not alone. Many people in the multi-troubled state of California are living in fear.
It is bad enough that for almost two years the Democrats in charge of the state government have used the war on COVID as an excuse to expand their powers and abuse us with strict lockdowns, school closings and mandates.
But seven years ago the state’s so-called progressives brought us Proposition 47, a sentencing “reform” measure that among other things essentially decriminalized retail theft by making stealing anything with a value of less than $950 a mere misdemeanor.
If you combine that dumb idea – which the Los Angeles Times points out “was co-authored by then-San Francisco — now Los Angeles — Dist. Atty. George Gascón and strongly supported by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom” — with the even dumber idea of defunding the police, you will understand why California is in the midst of a crime wave.
The 2021 crime stats for Los Angeles County tell the grim story.
Compared to 2019, homicides in LA through the end of October are up 75 percent.
Aggravated assaults involving a firearm are up 73 percent. Motor vehicle thefts are up 57 percent. Unlawful shootings are up 73 percent…
And, to show what happens when you defund the police, destroy the morale of your officers and threaten them with vaccine mandates that result in them quitting their jobs, arrests in Los Angeles in 2021 so far compared to 2019 are down 34 percent.
The criminals have gotten so bold that even progressives living in gated and walled mansions in Beverly Hills are starting to wake up and demand more police protection.
As we know, calls for more law and order by liberals are rare.
But that’s what happens when the nice shops in your nice neighborhood – the ones on Rodeo Drive, for example – get hit by the smashers and grabbers.
And it’s what happens when an 81-year-old philanthropist a few blocks away gets robbed and murdered in her zillion-dollar home – despite having an armed guard.
The state’s justice system has become a tragic joke. The 14 smash-and-grabbers police arrested here last week were probably back on the street before the police returned home.
Also, everyone knows these well-coordinated mobs of smash-and-grabbers are not stealing baby food.
They’re not poor kids. They’re sophisticated punks who’ve figured out how to steal $500 purses and terrorize people – and “woke” politicians and subversive district attorneys are letting them get away with it.
You don’t see these gangs operating in Florida. They’re a home-grown product of California and its irresponsible politicians like Gov. Newsom and DA Gascón.
Thanks to them, we have a lot of ordinary Californians who are afraid if they go to a mall or sit down outside at a restaurant a bunch of thugs will show up and rob or terrorize them.
Everyone in Los Angeles knows by now that the city’s shrinking police force and upside-down justice system can no longer do the basic job of protecting them from California’s Crime Wave.
Which is probably why one sensible public servant, Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva, has been working extra hard to expand his department’s ability to issue concealed weapons permits.
Well, YOU voted for it California. Enjoy it.
It's only going to get Worse.
They voted for Prop. 47. They voted for Gov. Newsom. Thay voted for the D.A. in Los Angeles. They voted for a monster in San Francisco for D.A. I don’t feel sorry for them in the least. Build a wall around California and let them have at it.
Here’s an old quote;
“People get the government that they deserve.”
(Allow)
(Vote for)
I would have sympathy for them but they have continually and consistently voted for these propositions and Democratic leadership…..
Heck, they just had a chance to dump Newsome and they voted to keep him..
Let all industry slowly leave that state, wall it off and let them stew in the cesspool they created….
After 40 years in the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles, I left this July for Michigan. Loved the weather. I’ll miss that, and one of my kids and grandchildren. The unions have a lock on the politics and it will never change. Rampant illegals everywhere.
Bet you long for the days of Perry Mason era L.A. ....
A guy who killed a naked, raving intruder who made it to the second floor of his home, at night, in Rochester NH spent too much money and too much time getting his decision of “no charges” from the County Attorney because he had signs like that on his house and his truck.
Philly is the only city in the state where open crime is rampant because of it's Soros' sponsored DA and mayor.
If you don't prosecute criminals, they will do more crime.
Who knew?
Chicago has more murders on an average week than the entire tri-state area {western PA} has in a year.
The fact about one in nine folks in the store/Church/street/car are carrying, may have something to do with our safety and the cautious approach that the bad guys take.
If the perp is wondering if he is going to get his ass blasted off, he may not want to take the chance.
Cause and effect...Maybe.
From one demonRAT shit hole to another crazy gubbernor.
There maybe be a chance that MI will dump that goofy bimbo next term, so all is not lost, and it's no where close to the CA government that has degenerated to open crime and chaos.
I want to see the thieves, looters and killers invade the wealthy domains in CA, ala Charles Manson and see rampant rape and murder in the rich places.
I absolutely agree with my Rep. This is what happens when you outlaw self defense of person and property while legalizing crime.
A suggestion for Gosar: End tax deductibility for shrinkage losses. Then companies will have more skin in the game.
Anyone remember the tv commercials for the phone apps for selling
” shoes I didn’t need anymore and I made $5000 !”
?
As soon as I saw that I realized it was a “ fence “ app that would be used to sell stolen goods.
Then came these, imho, Soros sourced steal up to 950.00 Scott free we won’t even try to stop you laws.
You don’t really think the stolen goods are being sold on a street corner
or that those who walk out if multiple stores with 19 pairs of levis are actually jyst wearing them all
do you ?
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence / s
.
Well, YOU voted for it California. Enjoy it.
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No, we didn’t.
Election/ vote fraud
is actually a thing.
Fox News is the only News Channel I watch, but I am about to give up and not watch any news at all, and that is because of a couple of commercials they're pushing down my throat. At least it feels that way. One is that My Pillow Guy. At first I was glad when he changed his old commercial and stopped that so called barbershop quartet where the one guy "sings" my pillow dot. com. His new commercial really bores me.
Than the other commercial is about the guy (who is supposedly a Doctor who turned fruits and vegetables into capsules and tries to sell jars of them.
I checked out the price for of the jars. He charges $250 for one of them jars. Sure he promises 35% off if you mention FOX News, but aren't you supposed to wash the fruits and vegetables before you eat or cook them anyway.
“Then companies will have more skin in the game.”
Unfortunately since it would be federal tax law, this skin will be paid for by the consumers. The businesses will not be the ones who pay. If they can’t write off these losses they will double prices to cover it.
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