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The mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, has also suggested that the law may explain why his city's crime rates went from decreasing to increasing. [23] In a 2015 story in The Washington Post, the police chief of San Diego, Shelley Zimmerman, described Proposition 47 as "a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card." She and other police chiefs also ...
They created a 14-bill package tightening penalties on retail theft crimes as an alternative and tried to get the California District Attorneys Association to remove their initiative.
(The Center Square) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has laid out how The Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, passed by voters on Nov. 5., will be implemented. Prop. 36 ...
Lawmakers are facing increasing pressure to address smash-and-grabs and organized retail theft. California Democrats wade into retail theft politics. Why Prop. 47 puts them under pressure
Felony petty theft is the colloquial term for a statute in the California Penal Code (Section 666) that makes it possible for a person who commits the crime of petty theft to be charged with a felony rather than a misdemeanor if the accused had previously been convicted of a theft-related crime at any time in the past.
California Proposition 20 was a proposed initiated state statute on the ballot in the 2020 California elections. This initiative would have added more crimes to the list of non-violent felonies for which early parole is restricted, and would have required DNA collection for certain misdemeanors.
According to a Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) study of data from the DOJ, a statewide increase in overall retail theft between 2019-2023 was mostly driven by "11 of the state's 15 ...
Proposition 36, titled Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences for Certain Drug and Theft Crimes, was an initiated California ballot proposition and legislative statute that was passed by a landslide in the 2024 general election [2] [3] and went into effect in December 2024. [4]