A groundswell of Californians has started to push back against laws that have contributed to out-of-control looting, such as what happened to a San Francisco-area Nordstrom and Louis Vuitton over the weekend.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike told the Washington Examiner that a 2014 law known as Prop. 47 helped create the crime surge in California by downgrading thefts under $950 to misdemeanors. This, combined with follow-up laws that removed jail as a punishment for nonfelonies, created a crime wave that law enforcement cannot keep up with.
“As a Democrat, I believe in criminal justice reform. There are inequities in our system where we need to create a justice system for all. However, we have gone too far,” said California state Sen. Melissa Hurtado. “The state of California has been doing it wrong. It needs to change.”
#Breaking About 25 cars just blocked the street and rushed into the Walnut Creek Nordstrom making off with goods before getting in cars snd speeding away. At least two people arrested at gunpoint. pic.twitter.com/AG3R94M9L3
— Jodi Hernandez (@JodiHernandezTV) November 21, 2021
The pushback has been building for years as small family-owned businesses became the first looting victims. Then, it was the Walgreens and CVS stores primarily in the San Francisco Bay area that either had to curtail hours or shutter altogether because theft was putting them out of business. Next came a brazen Macy’s burglary of pricey purses followed by last weekend’s violent smash-and-grab with crowbars and assaults.
John Dennis, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, said he has been getting numerous messages from citizens who want a candidate to run in an Assembly race.
“We haven’t had a GOP run [in San Francisco] since 1973,” he said. “Voters wouldn’t even look at GOP candidates before. How many people in San Francisco can’t get a prescription where they normally did because Walgreens is closed? A leftist said he can’t get a COVID test because there is no pharmacy within walking distance of his house.”
The Democratic proponents of Prop. 47 billed the measure as a “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” to downgrade a host of crimes and focus more attention on hardened criminals. It will also help clear out the prisons of nonviolent offenders, voters were told, and passed with 60% of the vote.
CalMatters: https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/11/looting-san-francisco-retail-theft/
These stores need to employ “special ops” security with S T K ( shoot to kill ) orders. It would amaze Americans as to how peace would suddenly reign over the land.
I say we go round up all the billionaires, globalists, technocrats, financiers that are funding and tearing this country apart. There a few thousand of them and hundreds of millions of us. This shit needs to stop now.