California voters have finally had enough of the shoplifting, drug dealing, sideshow street takeovers, looting, carjacking and general Democrat ignored chaos. The citizens took to the polls and did a job their lawmakers should have done a long time ago. Proposition 36 is advertised as a fast way to fill up the prisons.
California fights back
Voters in California, even the progressive ones, are fed up with Democrat anarchy. Maybe full prisons aren’t as undesirable as their elected officials keep telling them. Criminals behind bars aren’t stealing the Tide from Target.
They also aren’t hijacking anyone’s Kia to drive through the doors of a convenience store, to rob it.
Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom prefers violent anarchy. He “strongly opposed the measure.” Proposition 36, he whined to the press, “takes us back to the 1980s, mass incarceration.” He says that like it’s a bad thing.
It will never work, he insists. The measure cracking down on crime, he declared, “promotes a promise that can’t be delivered.” It can be if California prosecutors will actually prosecute.
Under Democrat management, the state had virtually decriminalize crime. Shoplifting is so out of control that major retailers are leaving California in droves.
Insurance companies will no longer provide coverage to businesses in the state because retail theft laws are totally unenforced. That’s about to change. Repeat offenders can now be treated as the career criminals they are.
New felony charges
Under California Proposition 36, simple possession of drugs including fentanyl is considered a felony. A first offender can still get a misdemeanor ticket for stealing anything up to $950 if they’re an otherwise upstanding citizen.
However, it automatically becomes a felony if “the offender has two prior drug or theft convictions.”
Democrats running the deep blue state of California were shocked to see what a landslide it was. The measure was approved by a “massive” margin.
It sends a message that they want to see harsh punishment. Even for the crimes which Democrats love to turn a blind eye to.
The proposition also creates a whole new category of crime. They call it “treatment-mandated felony.” According to the bill’s summary, “defendants who plead guilty to felony drug possession and complete treatment can have charges dismissed.”
Otherwise, they go into a cell for the same time they would spend in rehab and get to dry out without the methadone. When California starts getting drastic on crime, other Democrat cities will soon be following the example. Donald Trump’s anti-crime policies are one of the things which helped him clinch his latest victory.
