California's Senate And Assembly Hold A News Conference About The 'Conflicts' To Reform Prop 47

Crime in California has become a nationwide cautionary tale, but California's elected leaders, from Governor Gavin Newsom to Attorney General Rob Bonta to the Democrat Supermajority legislature, have done little except put a new paint job on a red-tagged building. From blue sky initiatives like high-tech surveillance to banning self-checkout, as my colleague Matt Funicello reported in May, none of these addresses the root issue: people who do the crime in California rarely, if ever, do the time. There are no consequences for criminal behavior; therefore, there is no reason not to escalate that behavior. Ergo, crime continues to be rampant. Retail theft, among other crimes, is out of control in California, with the past couple of years seeing a massive spike in smash-and-grab robberies, shoplifting, and more. Now, California Democrats want to crack down on retail theft by proposing new legislation that would largely prevent grocery and some retail stores from using self-checkout lines.
Instead of addressing some of the root causes of crimes like these, such as the passage of two controversial ballot initiatives — Propositions 47 and 57 in 2013 and 2016, respectively — California Democrats want to double down on their "nanny-state" policies and attack business, instead of the criminals that victimize them. After decades of this, and the gross incompetency of social justice and soft-on-crime district attorneys like George Gascón in Los Angeles County and Pamela Price in Alameda County, Californians have taken matters into their own hands. Among the number of reports of armed citizens standing their ground, most recently in Oakland, the citizens of California are now focused on fixing what went awry with Prop 47.

Last year, the Californians for Safer Communities Coalition mounted a signature campaign to repeal and re-envision Prop 47 through the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act. This coalition has received backing from the very people affected by California crime: individuals, small businesses, large retailers, county and state law enforcement, and real activists who have been committed to social and criminal justice reform that doesn't involve Soros-backed DAs. When this initiative was presented to the voting public, the coalition gathered over 900,000 signatures in order to get the measure on the ballot. On Tuesday, the California Secretary of State announced that the measure qualified for the November 2024 ballot. (…)

Newsom has been signaling for months that he does not want Prop 47 to be decided by the people of California. -- At a news conference on this issue, I repeatedly tried to ask leaders of CA’s Senate and Assembly about the “conflicts” between the legislature’s public safety package and the ballot initiative to reform Prop 47. Reporters were told we’ll basically get that info later? (…)

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