We have experienced nearly 10 years of crime in California without consequence to the perpetrators.
Cleverley buried in the body of this 2014 legislation titled “Safe Schools and Neighborhood Act,” approval of free crime sailed through without a whimper of opposition.
The results of this free crime law have been outrageous.
This legislation emboldened thieves to help themselves without fear of incarceration.
Our kids are growing up thinking this is the way life works. You can rip off anything or anyone as long as the value isn’t more than $950.
The feeble efforts in Sacramento to repeal this legislation have been sent to the perpetual review chambers, never to see the light of day.
The left-leaning liberals are liable for allowing this loose leniency, looting and letting the lawbreakers live free.
We learned as children there were rules. It was one of the first things we encountered as we matured. There are things you can do and things you don’t do.
AND…if these rules were violated, there was the Piper to pay.
If there are no consequences coupled with rules, you have no integrity in your society.
Our legislatures have intentionally allowed this new rule of “Free Theft” to be left in place, to erode the rule of law and create chaos and calamity in our communities.
The contagion in communities without consequence is chaos.
Even elected officials are tempted to operate outside of their authority and take advantage of liberal allowances without consequences.
For example, Santa Clara’s elected District Attorney Jeff Rosen is promoting the idea of reducing convicted criminals from death row to extended sentences. This is quite a change from just a few years ago when Rosen was asking for the death penalty in a “tainted” case where the accused was ultimately found innocent by the jury. In any case, Rosen does not have the authority to make this decision, but that hasn’t bothered him in his pursuit of the “Law According to Rosen.”
Crime in the office of Rosen is what he decides it is or is not. His tenure as District Attorney has turned the rule of law upside down. He loves the idea of Free Theft up to $950. It reduces the number of criminals he would actually have to prosecute. And it reduces his workload so he can go after “real” criminals like Santa Clara Council Member Anthony Becker, whom Rosen has accused of leaking a Grand Jury Report. Wow. What a “tough on crime” conviction and feather in Rosen’s baseball cap that would make.
Let’s see, Rosen hasn’t got time to prosecute real criminals, so he chooses to persecute an elected council member who just happened to run against Rosen’s political ally, Mayor Lisa Gillmor?
Duh!!!
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