A California county supervisor recently took to X, formerly Twitter, to admit his mistake of backing the radical crime bill Prop. 47 a decade ago as it only legalized shoplifting and made the pandemic of retail theft worse – an “absolute outrage” even.
San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa said he was for the passing of the legislation because he saw it as a chance to give people serving long sentences for retail theft a second chance. Prop. 47 allows felons currently serving prison terms to petition for reduced sentences under the new classifications.
Moreover, a well-known statute in the crime bill raised the minimum amount of stolen goods from $400 to $950 for a theft case to be classified as a felony. Criminal mobs took advantage of the law because they knew that if they got arrested, they could simply walk out of jail the next day and […]
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