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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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.
And yet the public will still vote fools like these into office.
You literally can steal all day long and not go to prison.
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.
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.,
“And all would be “High” gear.
Having a “Low” gear would be a micro-aggression.”
Being called a granny gear would be racist.
Nancy Pelosi looks like a walking cadaver.
Seriously, she probably smells like a reopened grave.
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.
In that case, I’ll take the low sodium diet. Hold the brimstone.
Hawaii. Maryland. Oregon.
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