Posted on 01/21/2022 1:33:17 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Under one party rule, ‘Criminals know how to exploit California’s policies for their gain’.
Californians have recently been treated to images of mountains of trash along the Union Pacific rail line in Los Angeles. CBS-LA reporter John Schreiber went to the site and took video of looted packages from Amazon and UPS, prescription drugs, Amazon packages, “unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains.”
His videos went viral on social media, and many news reports followed.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the site Thursday and helped perform clean up for the cameras.
“What has happened on this stretch of the Union Pacific Railroad is unacceptable,” Newsom told reporters. He said the area looked like a scene from “a Third World country,” according to FOX 11 of Los Angeles.
It is unacceptable. But this has been going on for a long time, with little or no reported response from local or state government.
But rather than doubling down on the source of these crimes, Fox 11 LA reports Newsom praised Proposition 47, Proposition 57 and AB 109, claiming they had helped reduce crime in the state: Proposition 47, which downgraded some felonies to misdemeanors; Proposition 57, which reduced prison sentences; and Assembly Bill 109, which shifted detainees from state prisons to local jails, FOX 26 of Fresno reported.
Proposition 47, reduced a host of felonies to misdemeanors, including drug crimes, date rape, and all thefts under $950, even for repeat offenders who steal every day. Proposition 57 now allows newly-defined “nonviolent” felons to qualify for early release, and parole boards can now only consider an inmate’s most recent charge, and not their entire history because of this proposition.
Even with LA police catching and arresting the Union Pacific thieves, they are out within the day because of the two propositions Newsom claims to support. These “criminal justice reforms” have produced the stark increase of thefts and robberies.
None of this has stopped the railway theft yet. Only strong policing with legal consequences to the theft will.
The governor’s reaction might as well be pure theater – remember, he endorsed Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón.
If I commit a crime in California and the police and prosecutor know I did and they don’t arrest me or prosecute me did I really commit a crime?
Maybe not but I will grant you this.
I would get the prisoners from the big house out and make them clean that crap up and then have them stand guard at night after they clean it up.
Wanna bet it would stop after the hard cores get done with the punks?
That is..if there are any hard cores left in the big house in California.
Elitist fool has no idea of what’s really going on in his State. And equivalent fools vote for him.
Elitist Newsom insults third-world countries.
Mainly due to diligent Democrat efforts to completely destroy the “melting pot” idea that most of us grew up with. The only path to power for Dems is to keep all the tribes in their own enclaves and to think of themselves as victims. If people once again bought into the greater and more noble idea of being a proud American, we would all be a lot better off.
“Third world country” or, as Trump would say, shithole country.
Meanwhile, groups doing “RESEARCH’ on violence are to be allowed to have access to name/address/etc of every registered gun owner in Calif.
I went to the Opera House in San Francisco several years ago. Walking down the street before the opera and after was the thick smell of Urine....it was unbearable! Couldn’t wait to get off the street and vowed I’d never return to the city again...and haven’t.
Well we know the left divides the world into “good states”those that embody liberal values and “bad states” pretty much everyone else. California is leftist and the results are obvious to all....except them.
Turd world country.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, eh?
The Opera House, that has changed for better and worse. In the 1970's and 1980's you would not want to walk on the west side of it, full of drug addicts and thieves. South side of it was a high school and sports field; a concert hall was built on the sports field site, and a state building was built on the north side of the Opera House - both improved the area in the early 1980's. Then the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 changed the west side - a damaged raised freeway was torn down at the west, City Hall got remodeled, and the area got gentrified with yuppie shops in the 1990s, forcing out the scummy denizens. Became a nice area in the 1990's. Then came the homeless to the east of City Hall in the 2000's, and they soon dirtied the area (Newsom's fault). One positive thing I can say about democrat Willie Brown, he took pride in cleaning up the area; can only say bad things about Gavin Newsom as he ruined everything he touched.
It’s been almost two years since we took the AmTrak train from Sacramento to Truckee. It was right at the beginning of the pandemic when restaurants were supposed to shut down but weren’t sure that they really wanted to. From downtown Sacramento clear out past Roseville it was like a linear tent city, alternating tents and tarps surrounded by shopping carts and bicycle parts with piles of trash and more trash strewn along the tracks. You had to get past Colfax before you got away from the rubbish. It’s much worse now.
There is like a second layer of society superimposed on top of what we call civilization. People live inside houses while other people are living in their doorways. People walk on the sidewalks while dodging piles of poop and the smell of old urine wafts upon the breeze. All along the river there are people in tents building fires and dragging all manner of things with them. The tents and tarps alternate with piles of trash just like on the railroads only there are trees in between.
The liberals who made the problem by regulating housing made it so people can’t afford to live indoors. They certainly can’t afford housing while supporting illegal drug habits. Cigarettes are nearing 10 dollars a pack. For a smoker that is 300 dollars a month and they have to buy generic brands and get them on sale. On the one hand the poor homeless are mentally ill and on the other the homeless are destroying the local environment and polluting the waterways. Someday the bleeding hearts will come up against the environmentalists and I for one will have a stockpile of name-brand microwave popcorn.
The whole Opera House / City Hall district has been filthy for 40, probably 50 years. They stopped rousting the bums from the parks around city hall in the 70s and, after that “tolerance,” the bums moved in, set up camps, did drugs, defected, urinated, left needles all around that area. The city has never done anything to clean it up. How a city can let those problems fester in one of the prettiest districts in the city is beyond me. It’s the SEAT of the city government, for crying out loud. It truly demonstrates how “liberalism is a mental disorder.”
Our daughter and boyfriend took us to “Brenda’s French Soul Food” at Polk & Eddy a few years ago. We parked at the garage by the Opera House and walked the four blocks to the restaurant. Never again. The food was wonderful, but we were so grossed out by the bums and filth all around that we vowed we wouldn’t return.
I live in California and have liberal acquaintances who actually think that the homeless problem is a result of Ronald Reagan kicking the mentally ill out of state hospitals. They seemingly do not know that laws originate in the legislature and the governor is not who wrote the law just because he signed it. Same with Newsom. He didn’t write the laws about sentencing or criminal charges. Those were initiatives that were voted into law by the people themselves. I admit to voting in favor of the two initiatives. They sounded like nice things to do and we have relatives who aren’t always on the same side of the law as we are.
The ultimate fault belongs to the people who wrote the drug laws. They made people who were trying to have fun into criminals. They drove up price of drugs so that people who were addicted or chronically influenced would not be able to afford to use drugs while maintaining a house and a car.
The politicians are mad about this because that's their job.
Newsom praised Proposition 47, Proposition 57 and AB 109, claiming they had helped reduce crime in the state....
They eliminated crimes so, Ahole, the crimes are not only continuing unchallenged, they have exploded.
There is no way to report a crime, if that crime has, under the law been eliminated
Real people, good citizens are being victimized by criminals and you..
You have no compassion for your fellow citizens and human beings...
He knows exactly what is going on. Merely feigning surprise and empathy to fool the commoners.
I’ve been to several major cities but none oozed such nasty odors in the air as San Francisco.
As for Newsom he has no interests in it’s cities nor the people...He’s just like Pelosi....power and revenue flow across his own palms.
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