Californians getting fed up with soft on crime policies of Dems

 American Action News:

A majority of Californians support harsher penalties for repeat theft and fentanyl-related offenses as crime in the state weighs on residents, according to a poll released Friday by the Los Angeles Times.

Around 56% of Californians agree with the proposed ballot measure Proposition 36, which would make theft under $950 a felony instead of a misdemeanor if the person has two or more previous theft-related charges and mandates treatment for people who are caught with drugs and have two or more past drug convictions, according to the University of California at Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the L.A. Times. The measure would roll back provisions in Proposition 47, which was passed in 2014 and downgraded theft under $950 and most drug possession charges from felonies to misdemeanors.

California saw a 29% increase in retail theft from 2019 to 2021 and a 121% increase in fentanyl overdose deaths in the same time period. More broadly, property crimes increased by 8.7% from 2020 to 2022, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Those policies were clearly a mistake that only fed the criminals' lust for crime.  That crime along with unaffordable housing has resulted in a major exit from Califonia.

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