A few years ago, California passed one in a series of bills aimed at emptying the jails and prisons.
Proposition 47 carried the disingenuous name of “the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act and its stated purpose was to keep non-violent offenders out of jail.
To achieve this goal, the state decriminalized a number of lesser offenses, including retail theft.
To the great surprise of the government, people noticed this change and began taking advantage of it.
They have now recorded multiple years of steadily increasing, organized robbery.
These plots are known as “mass grab and dash” thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time, grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway.
Not only are robberies on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this?..."
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