Proposition 47 - What is it?

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Why is California having so many thefts? Is it possible that it has to do with Proposition 47? In 2014, California passed Proposition 47, what is that anyway. Let's take a look at some history here and see what this is all about. See if we can figure out what went wrong in California. In 1994, California passed a trailblazing law called the Three-strikes law. This law made the third violet felony a life sentence, the crime rate dropped dramatically. Other laws passed shortly after with tougher penalties for crimes like sexual assault and retail theft, to mention a few. I response to those laws even though crime did drop the prisons filled up due to such strong laws. In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to release some 46,000 inmates. This put the liberals on track to pass Proposition 47 three years later. The law downgraded many nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors. Many of which are not prosecuted at all. Some of which is nothing more than an equivalent to a traffic ticket. As it stands in California right now stealing anything less than $950 value is a misdemeanor. Before Proposition 47, anything over $450 was grand theft – a felony. Forward to 2020 and we have seen so much retail theft that they are putting companies out of business. The retailers, especially the smaller “mom and pop” retailers can not stay in business from all the thefts. This is the type of society we want with mobs just rush into a retail store and take what they want, and nothing can be done about it? We can only hope that something is done to change this and soon.