JoeB131
Diamond Member
A bag of chips does not cost $950. In the leftist paradise of San Francisco, that's how much one can steal without consequence.
The leftist attitude is that in the collective, ''whats yours is mine''. Criminals are a protected class and the politburo is protected by the criminals. If the unwashed masses get out of line, the politburo will unleash their criminal class as a quasi enforcement arm.
Or they simply realized that spending $106,000 a year to lock up someone who stole $950.00 worth of stuff isn't cost effective.
The real problem - and I'm going to post facts here, so don't get confused - is that the courts have ALREADY ordered California to stop overstuffing their prisons.
California put too many people in prison with such stupidity as "Three Strikes and your Out" laws, where people were facing life sentences for stealing slices of pizza and tube socks. The prisons were at 200% of the capacity because they weren't voting to build more prisons. The courts ordered them to get it down to 137% capacity.
This is the problem with your beloved Prison-Industrial Complex. There are a lot of people getting rich off of it, but the taxpayers don't really want to pay for it.
So, yeah, a threshold of $950.00 in property for non-violent offenses... actually seems kind of reasonable.
The results are identifiable. Just a few of the companies in San Francisco leaving or downsizing:
Oh, noes, not big corporations! What is this bizarre fascination you guys have about worrying about the rich? Um, okay, you see, the Rich are going to be fine.
Frankly, Yelp can fall of a fucking cliff, as far as I'm concerned. It's a completely unethical company, as for AirBnB - they ended up screwing a lot of people.
We don't have 15000 husbands shooting their wives annually but we do have lots of criminals shooting each other
No, we really don't. According to the National Gang Task force, the number of gang-related murders in the US every year is between 1800 - 2300 a year. The rest of them are people shooting family members, neighbors or that schmuck who cut them off in traffic.