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It’s morning in California again. Or at least early afternoon. The streets are still filled with bums and their patrons are running the state, but at least stealing is somewhat illegal again.
Career criminals are discovering that the right side of history is no longer on the side of the thieves.
A new California law that had overwhelming support from voters is now on the books. Prop 36 charges people with a felony after a third arrest.
Law enforcement is already making arrests and putting people in jail.
“After the passage of Prop 36, we now have the ability, with two previous convictions, even if they’re misdemeanor convictions, to be able to charge someone with a felony, regardless of the dollar amount,” said Det. Andy Cater.
Before Prop 36 went into place Wednesday, suspects arrested for stealing merchandise under $950 only faced a misdemeanor.
It didn’t matter how many previous tickets they had; they didn’t spend time in jail and could keep shoplifting.
“Suspects are very open about the fact that they know theft in the state of California under $950 is a misdemeanor,” Cater said. “They have no problem telling us, ‘Why? I didn’t steal a felony amount.'”
“Our officers are feeling more empowered,” Cater said. “We’re not just racking up another citation. Our officers feel like what they’re doing matters and that they want to do the extra legwork to make sure that we get a good conviction.”
Outside a retail store, deputies arrest a woman they say changed clothes inside the store.
She told the deputies she has been arrested before and they explained the new law and how she will be going to jail, instead of getting a ticket.
In one day of Operation Ugly Sweater, deputies arrested 31 people, including three now facing Prop 36 felonies.
This is how the message spreads. Stealing is no longer something you can casually saunter away from. (Although plenty of Soros DAs and pro-crime Democrat judges are still likely to pursue ‘diversion’ programs and other pro-crime measures if they can get away with it.)
Gov. Newsom and the state’s Democrat supermajority did everything possible to lie, bully, and intimidate California voters into keeping stealing legal. Voters defied the pro-crime party and now criminals are actually being arrested.
How much you want to bet 90% of the 31 people were black or latino.
Scumbag deadbeats.
Now work up to arresting Governor Newsom and his radical cronies for instigating ever single rotten
thing that comes our way to diminish the quality of life and safety in my birth state of California.
Period!
My friend, you may have been born here but obviously you don’t live here. Newsom and his radical cronies? You got that totally backwards. It’s the far left California democrat party and their servile crony Gavin Newsom. They are the tail that wags the dog (Newsom.)
Jerry the clown Brown was the last democrat that exercised leadership and control over the California state democrat party. The California democrat party de-balled Newsom before running him for governor.. To put it bluntly, he’s their b*tch in the governor’s mansion.
Take my word for it. I’ve lived in this sh*thole state all my life and I’m not going anywhere.
Oh I most certainly do live in California and always have. I am well aware of the lineup of
Governors. My boys and my wife were born here in Santa Barbara along with myself. My mother was born here in Santa Barbara in 1930. My grandmother was born here in Santa Barbara in 1903. My great grandmother was born here in Santa Barbara in 1879,
Gavin Newsom is the pinnacle of tainted politics. Nobody has “neutered” this wretched
Marxist pimp, at least not yet. That needs to be done now what with the entire corrupt
and debilitated Globalist Democrat Party being buried in a landslide. I will make it a point to outlive that wretched harpy Nan Pelosi and make it to her final resting place to spit on her grave.
Now, you keep up the good fight, short timer. ;.)
Santa Barbara is a very nice city. It’s a place people vacation in. Beautiful beaches, too.
Although I could never afford to live there.
You should have seen what a great and genuine non-pretentious town it was in the 60’s. Filled with real businesses up and down State Street. Mom and Pop stores
within walking distance from south to north and west to east. These were owned by
friendly and personable people who knew our names. Next door to us was our Grandmother and Grandfather’s home with my Great Grandmother having her own front bedroom with a view of her neighbors homes right through her window. There were horse rings atop sandstone pillars at the curb in front of my Grandparents home dating from the 20’s.
It was a great, even fantastic place to grow up.
But you know what they say……………………You can never go home.
The pendulum swings back.
Yes. I voted in favor of prop 36. It was one of the only ones I voted for, along with that one that favored tenants over landlords and property owners. Usually I vote “NO” on everything.
I have to give California credit. The public ballot system is incredible. Other states mock us but how many have ballot systems that allow citizens to have a voice? None, I figure. Just us.
Care to explain why we get the outcomes we get in state elections? I already know the answer but it would be enlightening for others who don’t live in California to get your perspective on the matter.
Voter fraud. If you look at a voter map of CA, all the inland counties are Republican. It’s those coastal carpet baggers who ruined the state. Virtually none of them were born here.
I was born here. I left for 40 years but I’m back now. Don’t ask me why. The girls here are the best looking, in my opinion. Outside of Indonesia, anyway.
Three Strikes it back again and the Democrats voters and supporters will once again be going to Prison instead of the Meditation Theropy Center
Just 90%? Seems awfully low.
The question remains as to what sort of sentences the californication judges give.
Here in Australia’s version of californication, the People’s Democratic Republic of Danistan, aka the State of Victoria, those things are crimes, but that doesn’t stop the judges releasing the perpetrators without convictions.
They boast to the police that arrest them that they’ll be out before the cops finish their shifts, and they aren’t wrong.
As a California resident, I can tell you that California prisons are so over-crowded that only committing a serious felony (e.g., murder, armed robbery, rape come, etc.) gets any mandatory time in prison. Lesser crimes are pretty much up to the judge’s discretion. Get a liberal judge and could get sentenced to a work crew picking up trash on the side of the state highway or removing graffiti or confined to your home or immediate vicinity while being monitored via an electronic ankle bracelet.
Habitual criminals very often get caught committing petty crimes while wearing such ankle bracelets.
And I’m sure you understand that for a habitual criminal, getting caught is an occupational hazard. Prison is where criminals go to study and hone their skills.
Australia seems so nice. The Outback and Queensland, which is super green. That movie, “The Thin Red Line” was filmed there. Absolutely beautiful. It'[s a shame the government there sucks. It sucks here, too. I think Mexico has a better government than America. How fucked up is that?
Trumpy can’t get into office too soon to suit me.
Sorry Looters your Free Pass the Loot has been canciled by the Voters the same for Shoplifters instead of stealing all that Stuff and getting Slap in the wrist its now GO TO JAIL GO DERECTLY TO JAIL DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT $200 nowhere sights of those Thieves leaving the store with all their stuff they stole its the Slammer for them
Laws don’t stop criminals and prison time is just a vacation to them. A bullet, hanging or a lethal injection is how you stop a criminal and end their career. Habitual criminals gain a clear understanding of the consequences of their criminality in their final moments among the living.
Yes, a lot of those “people” LIKE being in jail.
I remember this big and handsome Omaha Indian I met once who thought people who enjoyed being in jail were deranged. I totally agreed with him. I hated it just as much as he did.
I have a psychotic ex-wife. Don’t ask. Omaha Nebraska. The worst Shithole on planet Earth.
Did you ever see those videos of the usual suspects looting stores with impunity?
No more. Ha Haw! Enjoy jail, scumbags. Seriously. Who steals stuff?