They may be backing it, but, do they really believe this, or, are they just trying to placate voters temporarily? Or feeling the heat of lost donations from big companies?
Liberal California mayors are backing this ballot measure that could lock up repeat retail thieves
For the first time in ten years, California voters could get the opportunity to change a controversial law aimed at criminal justice reform.
A new proposal, called The Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, would roll back parts of Proposition 47, approved by California voters in 2014 to reduce overcrowding in jails by reducing punishments for some crimes, like theft and drug possession.
Many of the proposal’s backers are exactly who you’d expect: district attorneys, Republican lawmakers and big chain stores that have been lashing out against a Covid-era rise in shoplifting that last year subsided. But it has support from a handful of Democratic mayors, too.
Although Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom opposes the proposal, arguing the system is sufficiently tough on crime. But it appears destined to be decided by voters: The proposal needs fewer than 547,000 signatures to get on California’s ballot in November, and organizers tell CNN they have 75% of the signatures needed.
Will Democrat voters sign on in high enough numbers?
Under the new proposal, “an offender with two prior convictions for theft can be charged with a felony, regardless of the value of the stolen property.” It would also allow prosecutors to add together the value of property stolen across multiple thefts to exceed the $950 threshold for a felony charge, and create harsher punishments for organized retail theft rings. (big snip)
When Prop 47 was approved by California voters ten years ago, it turned most drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors. And right now, non-prescription fentanyl is not listed on Prop 47 as a hard drug that can result in harsher punishments in certain cases.
The new proposal would create harsher penalties for people who deal fentanyl and other hard drugs.
You know, common sense. Things that are freaking common sense. They can certainly find other ways to punish these people rather than mass incarceration in horrible living conditions, but, criminals need to be punished. They need to know there are consequences for their actions. Which is the opposite of what the People’s Republik Of California has been doing.
It has been said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, and the cities of the Pyrite State have been mugged by the constant, repeat theft by those completely undeterred by harsh words and wagging fingers.
The left set the criteria under which retail theft would not be prosecuted, and the thieves were smart enough to keep individual thefts under those guidelines.
The oh-so-well-meaning liberals have proven themselves to be just boneheadedly stupid. They assumed that, since they are good, civilized people themselves, that everyone else is just like them, that they are all, deep down, also good and civilized people, without ever considering that there could actually be evil and uncivilized [insert plural slang term for the anus here] out there. Somehow, some way, all of their “Coexist” and “Love One Another” bumper stickers, and their liberal policies and promises just haven’t worked.
And now, they’ve learned a hard lesson, much to their dismay.
Jennifer Angel was an Oakland bakery owner, who is now stone-cold graveyard dead.
I ask, just what “restorative justice” will restore Miss Angel to life?
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Miss Angel was the victim of a robbery which went bad:
So, Miss Angel, lovingly liberal herself, reacted as most people would when she was being robbed personally, and tried to protect her stuff. A very kind and generous person herself, someone who believed in love and forgiveness and helping people less fortunate than her, demonstrated that her philosophy was an abstract concept, a way she thought other people should react and see things. Then it happened to her.
It’s not like conservatives didn’t tell the people of the Pyrite State what would happen when lawlessness was tolerated, but they were just too f(ornicating) stupid to listen!
Being a liberal hypocrite can get you killed.
People just don’t understand that even if these people look like humans, they are actually animals. Has nothing to do with family, or how they grow up, they are just animals and deserve to be treated as such.
Humans are animals. Even Blacks, Muslims and Hispanics are human.
If it has nothing to do with family or how they grow up what does it have to “do with”? Genetics?
Jeff,
Once again I have asked you not to return comments when I am not specifically addressing you, which I will not. Your knowledge base and life experience is zero. You obviously hate your skin and do not understand crime and human animals. In my view you are a fat man who is a total failure. You rarely make a truthful statement.
Dr Mal Practice,
Kiss my ass you dried up old whiner. I didn’t address you, just your stupid comment.
Your knowledge base and life experience is zero.
In my view you are a demented old man who is a total failure. You never make a truthful statement.
Faithful Christian Mr Dana takes time to mock a murdered woman who was doing good for all. Further, Mr Dana blames her death on her own goodness compounded by liberal stupidity!! Mr Burch was on the streets because of Ms Angel’s beliefs, according to Mr Dana.
Ms Angel, much like Jesus Christ, was just too stupid to recognize the inherent selfishness and brutaliy of the human animal.