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California shocked to find bill decriminalizing retail theft resulted in… more retail theft
Hot Air ^ | September 26, 2019 | JAZZ SHAW

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluezones; california; crime; crimerate; retail; theft
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To: lowbridge

For my part, stealers can simply be shot when caught in the act.
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Ok, perhaps that’s too harsh. How about the Monopoly punishment: Go directly to Jail. No not pass Go. Do not collect &200.


61 posted on 09/27/2019 9:20:31 AM PDT by citizen (Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars. All the other genders you make up are from Uranus.)
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To: lowbridge

And yet the public will still vote fools like these into office.


62 posted on 09/27/2019 9:40:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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To: lowbridge

You literally can steal all day long and not go to prison.


63 posted on 09/27/2019 10:20:30 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: lowbridge

The other day, I walked into Fry’s in Roseville, which is a big electronics and gadget retailer. Last year, this place was packed full of shoppers and products.

The entire place was gutted of inventory.

It was like a 40,000 sqft warehouse full of empty shelves.

I can’t believe business still donates to Democrats. Eventually they won’t have money to donate.


64 posted on 09/27/2019 10:48:02 AM PDT by pacificus
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To: minnesota_bound
Don't worry.

Leftists support bringing in Muslims.

When the Muslim population reaches critical mass, there will be Sharia law.

Steal so much as a pencil and the right hand is chopped off.

Do it again, the other hand.

Once more, the head.

There are no 4th time offenders.,

65 posted on 09/27/2019 10:53:33 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: Scrambler Bob

“And all would be “High” gear.

Having a “Low” gear would be a micro-aggression.”

Being called a granny gear would be racist.


66 posted on 09/27/2019 12:08:44 PM PDT by fproy2222
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To: COBOL2Java

Nancy Pelosi looks like a walking cadaver.
Seriously, she probably smells like a reopened grave.


67 posted on 09/27/2019 12:47:06 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: null and void

In Costa Rica, they have ‘Supermercados’. But they are different in that in every aisle there are two or three employees to help you find what you’re looking for. I have no doubt that if they see you putting stuff in your pockets, the armed guards (and like any place in CR where there’s money there will be armed guards) will show you the errors of your ways. They take theft pretty seriously down there and extreme measures—razor wire, broken glass on walls, & heavily armed guards—to prevent it.


68 posted on 09/27/2019 1:24:03 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: null and void

In that case, I’ll take the low sodium diet. Hold the brimstone.


69 posted on 09/28/2019 11:20:55 AM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: null and void

Hawaii. Maryland. Oregon.


70 posted on 09/05/2023 6:54:23 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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