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(Un) Foreseen Consequences

This morning after getting gas at 8:30 a.m., my wife went into Von’s, a local grocery store, to buy some milk. While looking at some leftover Halloween markdowns adjacent to the front door of the store, two young men, probably in their twenties, brushed past her and out of the store. Each of them had a significant amount of merchandise in those carry-in-your-hand store baskets that each were carrying. She saw steaks, shrimp, beer and toilet paper in one of these baskets. (They apparently were not stealing so that their small children would not starve!) The 40-something manager of the store yelled for them to stop, but to no avail. 
My wife asked, “Is what I just witnessed, brazen shoplifting, an unusual thing? She was told, “No, it happens three to four times every day.” When she then asked if a security guard would help, she was politely told by the store manager that security guards, who are usually in their 50s and 60s are unarmed and are unable to stop these younger and stronger young men. “What’s next? Get their license plate number, and call the police?”“Actually, we do not call the police anymore, and all of these shoplifters know it. That is why they are so bold!” replied the store manager.“You don’t call the police! Why?”His terse answer, “Proposition 47, and it’s unforeseen consequences!”
From the National Review:
California’s Proposition 47 downgraded a variety of “non-serious, nonviolent crimes” that had previously been considered felonies to misdemeanors. These include shoplifting, grand theft, receiving stolen property, forgery, fraud, and writing bad checks. As long as the total value of the stolen property is under $950, only a ghost of an offense has occurred. A thief may now steal something under that limit on a daily basis and it will never rise to felony status.

In the event that a perpetrator is pursued and apprehended, the consequence can be a small fine or a brief stay in jail, In reality, these repercussions are rare. In addition, DNA samples aren’t collected from misdemeanor offenders. Thus the DNA database has shrunk, making it more difficult for law-enforcement agencies to solve cold cases, including those involving rape and murder.

For law enforcement, however, there is little incentive to chase down low-level criminals. Even if the person is escorted to the station, odds are great he’ll be back on the street in an hour or so.

The underlying premise of Proposition 47 was to free up funds so the state could focus on violent and serious offenders. Savings would be diverted to school-based prevention and support programs, victim services, and mental-health and drug treatment. Therefore petty thieves, who might be drug addicts, would avoid costly and ultimately detrimental incarceration. The referendum had the support of California Democratic party and the American Civil Liberties Union, and the state’s voters passed it into law in 2014 . . . repeat “ had the support of California Democratic party and the American Civil Liberties Union.”                                    
And: “State voters passed it into law.” ( Another example of basically how dumb California voters are! To the typical California voter if anyone mentions the possibility of “unforeseen consequences,” it’s like they are speaking a foreign language . . . any foreign language except Spanish, that is!)

What about that? Do you think that there are any unforeseen consequences to Prop 47? Duh!! Actually the “unforeseen consequences,” are actually foreseen consequences, and they have been a disaster! 

Again from National Review  – “Outrage in these circumstances is apolitical. A liberal Berkeley student studying in a café whose laptop is swiped from a table feels just as violated as the right-leaning visitor to Los Angeles whose luggage is stolen. A struggling small-business owner wonders how long he can withstand the damage done by constant pilfering.” Bike theft . . . epidemic! Package theft . . . epidemic! Theft of anything valued at less than $950 . . . epidemic!

Basically what Prop 47 has done lowered the standards that we who live here have to accept. Personally, I am sick of these liberal, “feel good” Democrat-backed policies like Proposition 47! 

But more importantly: Will California voters ever become smarter? . . . Probably not in my lifetime, unless a lightbulb goes on in the brains of a lot of its citizens as their bikes and cars valued at less than $950 are increasingly stolen with impunity.i

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