Californian thieves continue to wreak havoc on retailers in the socialist state, and it doesn't sound like it's going to get better any time soon.
A Sacramento Target store is a favorite target of shoplifters and has called the police so many times, that the city attorney's office threatened them with a public nuisance charge: the store, not the thieves.
‘I ... (was) also surprised that anyone would ever attempt to make a nuisance case out of somebody calling to report a legitimate crime,' said Alexander Gammelgard, president of the California Police Chiefs Association
So, how many times did Target call police to end up with such a warning?
According to the Sacramento Bee,
Target locations within the city of Sacramento had a total of 375 calls for service related to theft, robbery and shoplifting in 2023, up from about 175 in 2022 and 87 in 2021. The uptick between last year's data and the same period two years prior was 331%.
That's more than once per day, and they're only calling for the worst of offenses. Remember, in California the theft has to be valued over $950 to get charged with shoplifting.
A new law is being crafted by the California legislature that would allow District Attorney's to aggregate shoplifting crimes until they reach the $950 threshold, which now, thanks to the Sacramento city attorney, includes the following amendment:
Local law enforcement or a local jurisdiction is prohibited from bringing a nuisance action against a business solely for the act of reporting retail crime, unless the report is knowingly false.
In addition, there is Proposition 36.
Target, along with Walmart and Home Depot, are the top financial backers of November ballot measure Proposition 36, which would reform the state's reduced prosecution of drug dealing and theft to more strongly prosecute serial thieves and drug dealers. It also would create a ‘treatment-mandated felony' crime class that allows individuals to get treatment for mental health or behavioral issues and receive shelter instead of going to prison. Proposition 36 is endorsed by the California District Attorneys Association, the California State Sheriffs' Association, the Republican Party of California, and some top Democrats including San Francisco Mayor London Breed, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, and San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria.
However, Governor Gavin Newsom has already signaled he opposes the measures.
‘It's really drug policy reform that brings us back decades,' said Newsom in a press conference. ‘I'm very concerned about that.'
That's just about the worst take on this whole situation imaginable.
The only thing worse would be the Democrats running Newsom for president.
God forbid!
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