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Both patriots and leftists know that Gavin Newsom has transferred California from a national paradise to a crime-ridden hellhole. Democrats are so aghast at the result that they’re touting Newsom as presidential timber, whether as a stand-in for Dementia Joe this November or for The Cackler in 2028. Patriots have taken a dimmer view and will think even less of Newsom’s California after some recent events in the state capital.
The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday that “the Sacramento City Attorney’s Office warned a chain retail store that it could face a public nuisance charge due to a large number of phone calls placed to police when thieves repeatedly stole from its Land Park location.” Yes, the Attorney’s Office is not going after the thieves. It’s going after the store for reporting the thefts. This is what it means to get tough on crime in Newsom’s California.
As you might expect in light of the fact that vengeful leftist authoritarians run the once-Golden State today, this news comes from “a person with knowledge of the warning who wanted to remain anonymous out of fear they could be retaliated against.” This source said that Sacramento officials “warned they would issue an administrative fine to the Target at 2505 Riverside Boulevard in Land Park, during the past year.” Nor does this information come from a single source alone: “A police spokesperson confirmed the location to the publication after being asked about the alleged warning.”
In fact, Sacramento’s threat to the Target outlet was so egregious that even the leftist apparatchiks in the state legislature were moved to act. Fox News reported Tuesday that “after learning about the city’s warning and comparable actions across the state, state lawmakers added an amendment to a retail theft bill, outlawing these types of threats toward businesses from authorities.”
That’s good, but the core problem still remains — Proposition 47, which California’s addled voters approved in 2014. It classifies retail theft under $950 as only a misdemeanor, which in practice has meant that police often don’t respond to calls involving minor theft at all, as they have many, many more serious crimes to deal with. As a result, flash mobs engaging in smash-and-grab robberies have become common in California, and stores such as Target have no recourse. They simply have to absorb the loss.
Public dissatisfaction with this corrosive and ridiculous law has grown steadily. Los Angeles’ KTLA reported last week that a sign appeared in San Francisco in late June outside of a tony Louis Vuitton outlet: “NOTICE: Stolen goods must remain under $950.” Many apparently assumed that city authorities had placed the sign there, so KTLA felt the need to inform its readers that the sign “was not official” and had been removed, which was not surprising. Authoritarian leftists cannot stand to be mocked.
The beleaguered and dwindling band of California residents, however, can take heart: none other than Gavin Newsom is riding to their rescue. Fox News noted that the intrepid and ambitious governor, along with several of his apparatchiks, “are pushing a package with 14 bills that tighten penalties on retail theft offenses. The lawmakers believe their legislation will help deal with retail theft crimes.”
But don’t get your hopes up: they’re pushing this new package “rather than pass changes to Proposition 47,” much less repealing it altogether. Newsom’s new tough-on-crime is just cosmetic, designed to get his comrades through the election season. Then the destruction of businesses in California (for the people!) can proceed apace.
California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher summed up the absurd situation: “Newsom keeps insisting that reports of theft are dropping – well now we know why. Not only are thieves let off without even a slap on the wrist, but now the victims are being threatened for even reporting crimes. Everyone can see that Newsom’s pro-criminal policies are a failure – no matter how much his allies try to cover it up.”
Last December, Alexander Gammelgaard, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, testified at the California State Assembly’s first-ever meeting of a new committee that was supposed to deal with retail theft. According to the Bee, he said that he was: “surprised that anyone would ever attempt to make a nuisance case out of somebody calling to report a legitimate crime. I don’t think there is a place for that.” Forget it, Chief Gammelgaard. It’s Gavin Newsom’s California.
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That troll sign outside the Louis Vuitton store is worthy of the Babylon Bee.
If I were running for elective office, I would hire some of the Babylon bee’s writers to script my campaign ads.
When I clicked on this article my thought about CommieFornia getting tough on crime was to consider the criminals the ones who call 911 criminals to report a crime.
Shoplifting is a gateway crime just as they say marijuana is a gateway drug as is open borders is a gateway for illegal aliens to commit heinous crimes in USA!
This mentality is wrapping Gavin Nuisance in felonious bacon and serve him up for the 2024 election or the 2028 election. The bacon they are wrapping Nuisance in are the pork bellies futures for USA if we do not stop it.
I left CommieFornia for Arizona but this open borders, shoplifting is not a crime and everything else is a cancer eating up USA!
When your society culture government elite leaders and oligarchs and country become depraved psychopathic
murderous criminal berserk delusional violent and lawless …. then what is the right thing to do ?
Every business in Kalipornia should just close down at the same time, like going on strike. Of course the state would probably try to arrest the owners.
Maybe the productive should just disappear into Galt’s Gulch (in a highly fictionalized, free Colorado) and let the state destroy itself without their attempts to help save it.
Since about 1900 $400 was the demarcation
between misdemeanor and felony until just
a few years ago. $400 in 1900 would equate
to around 10,000 dollars today. So $950
today is small potatoes.
Misdemeanors are still punishable for up
to one year in jail.
The problem is not the amount of dollars but
lack of effective punishment
” as california goes so does the rest of america ” it is fast becoming a reality . that supposedly 81 mill. gormless americans voted for the current imbecile in chief more than did obama , [ is hard to believe ] !! but then completely plausible considering that the american voter may not be the sharpest when considering who the bad guys are [ muslims and illegals flooding the country ] and the destruction of california with years of abuse and flim flam operatives and endless govt. bills limiting freedom on a weekly basis . yet they still vote for ol gav. nuisance and fund his criminal enterprise . as v.d. hanson put it , the coastal elites never suffer the outcomes of their immoral laws and dictates because they have the money to build their own fortresses which are immune from the failed policies they support .
Gravel Nuisance would do to America what he managed to do in San Francisco and California which is what The Left of today call Progressive politics…. Go figure..