Posted on 08/10/2020 3:28:03 PM PDT by Vendome
California’s Proposition 47 reduced a number of “non-serious, nonviolent crimes” that had previously been considered felonies to misdemeanors. Among those crimes were shoplifting, grand theft, receiving stolen property, forgery, fraud, and writing bad checks.
In terms of the numbers, as long as the total value of the stolen property is under $950, it’s simply a slap on the wrist. That also means a thief may now steal something under that limit every single day and it will never rise to felony status.
When you eliminate stiff penalties for criminal activity, you almost guarantee an increase in these types of crimes, as there is really no deterrent anymore. Even with these previous measures failing to have the intended results, California voters still approved another criminal justice “reform” proposition, the aforementioned Prop 47. It created a reduction of six non-violent felonies to misdemeanors.
“Although many areas of California have seen increases in vehicle break-ins since the passage of Prop 47, certain high-density cities have been hit hardest. In San Francisco, where the problem is worst, public officials have called smash-and-grab burglaries an ‘epidemic.’ Although the city has suffered a motor vehicle break-in problem for about a decade, the frequency of such crimes has skyrocketed in recent years.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lawenforcementtoday.com ...
It's a gangster's paradise.
You mean the disease called ‘liberal guilt trip’?
It needs to be stomped out of its misery.
If you call some place paradise on the internet it quickly becomes hell.
Half of rats surprised the other half happy
The literary equivalent of perfect game. 27 paragraphs and not a single statistic.
In an article purportedly about statistics.
Incredible.
If they ‘de-criminalized’ them, they must not be crimes anymore...RIGHT?? So crime goes down under President Trump’s administration?
Now watch for the media narrative to do a huge belly flip-flop!
The Democrat Party 2020 is a RICO violation.
People just walk out of stores with stuff. Most stores won’t even run after them. Stealing is pretty much legal.
Is marijuana use well known in California?
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