California pols pushed "Prop 47" to avoid having to build more prison space. It worked just like you'd have thought

Back in 2014, inmates in California prisons got together with cunning leftist lawfare experts and sued the state for "overcrowded prisons."  As you already guessed, a corrupt federal judge ruled for the convicts and ORDERED the state to reduce "overcrowding."

This left the state's Democrat politicians with two choices:  They could build more prisons, or simply release inmates early.

If you're over 25 or so, you won't be surprised to learn that the corrupt pols chose Plan B.  Some pols simply wanted criminals to do even more damage to the lives of peaceful citizens than they already had, while others simply wanted to spend tax dollars on stuff that would put more money into their campaigns instead of on building more prisons.

Some pols realized that refusing to build more prisons would mean that to avoid more overcrowding, the state would have to reduce the number of newly-sentenced convicts to no more than the number released every year.  But with a growing population--especially the exploding number of illegal aliens in the drug and theft business--that meant they could only sentence a fraction of known, convicted offenders to prison.

So the cunning pols quickly introduced a state referendum, "Proposition 47"-- cleverly titled the "Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act."  

Nice title, eh?  I mean, who wouldn't vote for "Safe Neighborhoods and Schools," right?

Unfortunately for Cali's citizens, not a single word in Prop 47 was designed to actually reduce crime.  Instead, the act simply increased the level of theft or violence a thug could commit before it would result in a prison sentence.

For example, drug use was no longer punishable by jail time.  Same with theft of property valued at less than $950, or breaking into a car.  

Of course the huge pool of muggers, thieves, robbers and druggies in the state LOVED the proposition, and the *reported* vote showed 58% of Californians voted for the proposition.  My guess is that not one percent of those voters actually read the text of the act.  Instead, all the druggies and thieves eagerly voted yes, and the rest of the population relied on ads and propaganda from Lying Mainstream Media outlets to tell them that the measure would make them safer, when of course the exact opposite was true.

Such is the state of today's biden*harris*, Democrat-ruled America.

Prop 47 also allowed anyone already in in prison to petition for early release.  Not surprisingly, almost every prisoner did just that, with the result that about 10,000 state prisoners were released by the state, and thousands more from city and county jails.

An additional 15,000 were expected to be released as the state closed five correctional facilities.  Save lotsa money, see.

Drugs and gangs being as profitable as they are, I suspect 90% of the thugs who were released before they'd served their sentences went right back to their old habits--which were now more profitable because you could steal up to $950 without any fear of prosecution.

But wait!  It gets worse.

Facing a flood of at least 25,000 newly-released crooks, voters in LA and San Francisco elected district attorneys backed by George Soros.  In SF it was Chese Boudin, son of two convicted Weather Underground bombers who served time for murdering two police officers.  In LA it was George Gascon, born in communist Havana, Cuba.

Rather than prosecute criminals, both men announced they wouldn't even prosecute a host of crimes.  Of course the laws defining those crimes were still on the books, but both prosecutors issued their diktats anyway.  Because really, does a progressive society actually *need* to enforce silly laws?

No doubt many of you will be surprised to learn that a person raised by people determined to destroy our society isn't particularly interested in defending it.  Both Boudin and Gascon, like many other leftist DAs in other cities, have simply stopped prosecuting criminals from favored classes.

Now you might think these insane changes--Prop 47, releasing thugs and refusing to prosecute a host of crimes--would result in an explosion of crime.  But surprisingly...

Just kidding.  The changes had exactly the result anyone with an IQ above a turnip could easily have predicted.  It was clear to anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of human nature (something clearly beyond the understanding of Democrats): Drug use in California has skyrocketed.  Drugged-out junkies cover the floors of BART train stations.  San Francisco collects half a million used syringes from gutters and sidewalks each year.  Prop 47 has at least made junkies happier.

With the passage of Prop 47 theft has become big business in California.  Even before Prop 47 passed, the average shoplifter was only caught once for every 48 thefts.  Now gangs of looters walk into upscale stores any time of day, smash display cases, grab as much as they can carry and run out.  Virtually all stores order employees not to try to stop the smug, brazen thieves.  

And here's the kicker:  Because store managers know the DA's won't prosecute thieves even when surveillance cameras have high-resolution photos of the perps, many stores don't even bother reporting the thefts to the cops.

Whether the thieves are gangs or druggies strung out on heroin or fentanyl, they’re clearly smarter than Californians who voted for Prop 47.

Knowing that California DA's won't prosecute low-level criminals anyway, police have stopped arresting all but the most violent criminals.  Ironically, the decline in the number of reported crimes and arrests has allowed cunning Democrat pols to claim crime is actually down, even though everyone with an IQ over 70 knows that's a lie.  

Why would cops bother catching a crook only to see the crook released with what amounts to a traffic ticket?  Why not just avoid the pointless work?

The scary thing is, surely at least a few of the morally-bankrupt liberal Democrats who've ruled the state legislature for 50 years had to realize this was exactly what would happen when they put Prop 47 up for a vote.  But they did it anyway.

H/T John Green at American Thinker