Democrat pols in California have turned the state into a paradise for criminals

Murderous, rapacious thugs are everywhere in California.  Daylight murders and robberies are so common that they don't even draw much attention.

Residents of large, crime-infested cities just shrug:  As long as they aren't killed or robbed, it's no big deal, eh?  They're like schools of prey-fish attacked by predators: No defense, just hope you're not eaten.  If it wasn't so awful their mind-set would be rather amusing.

Residents of big Cali cities rationalize crime as something inevitable, like taxes.  But there's a huge reason why crime is so prevalent:  The state's Democrat lawmakers.
 
The Democrat party has controlled the state Assembly (legislature) for decades.  Any crazy thing the Dems want, they get.  So...in 2011 the legislature passed a law banning state prison sentences for most property and drug felonies.  The "reason" (excuse) was that the percentage of blacks and Hispanics in prison far exceeded their percentage of the population, dis' had to be *unfair!*  This was shortened to "disparate impact."

What the society-destroying Democrats deliberately ignored was that the reason blacks and Hispanics constituted a much higher percentage of inmates was that they committed a disproportionate percentage of crimes.  But the Democrats--impervious to truth, as always--proceeded to pass a law they called the "Public Safety Realignment Act."

Democrat pols didn't want voters to hold them responsible for simply releasing thugs from state prison, so this so-called “realignment” was a cunning ploy to  transfer armed robbers and thieves from state prisons to county jails, instantly overcrowding them.  That soon spurred the release of thousands of repeat felons back onto the streets.

But who cares, eh?

That was 2011.  But the liberals/Democrats were just getting started.  Just 3 years later, in 2014, with the help of a huge amount of cash from various George Soros organizations, voters approved an "initiative" measure called Proposition 47, which decreed that all thefts of less than $950 would henceforth be simply misdemeanors.

Not surprisingly, the number of thefts of armloads of goods, where the thieves simply grabbed the merchandise in broad daylight and sauntered out of the store, skyrocketed.

Because such thefts were no longer felonies, cops stopped even investigating them.  As a result, businesses and homeowners stopped even reporting them, since the cops refused to do anything--because the new law, passed by Democrats, had made such brazen thefts a non-issue.  

That was 2014--and the Democrats still weren't satisfied that they'd done enough to encourage crime.  So just two years later the Dems put yet another initiative on the ballot: the "Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 (Proposition 57), which would release thousands more inmates from prison after only serving a fraction of their sentences.  

District attorneys warned that the measure would put thousands of "career felons" with violent records back on the streets.  But of course Democrat pols ignored those warnings.  

And they still weren't done:  Just two years later, in 2018, Democrat legislators passed a law prohibiting violent teenagers, aged 14 and 15, from being tried as adults, no matter how heinous their crimes.

As anyone could have predicted, all these measures increased crime.  But because many victims stopped reporting the newly downgraded misdemeanors, Dems pols cunningly bragged that thanks to their actions, crime was actually *down.*  It wasn't, but the number of crimes *reported* stopped increasing.

So no one trusts stats on robbery and theft under the $950 limit.  So a more accurate picture can be obtained by examining violent crime--which has increased significantly.  Homicides are up over 31 percent in the first ten years of these so-called reforms. Aggravated assaults (including drive-by shootings) are up over 34 percent.

But who cares, eh?

Following the 2020 riots, Democrat pols used the emergency powers they'd seized after the Chyna virus plandemic to release another 10,000 inmates in state prisons, and local officials released thousands more from their jails.

And as you could have predicted, the vast majority of those released went right back to the easy "work" they did before: robbing and stealing.  Cuz in the unlikely event you got caught, you'd usually be released right away.  Easy-peasy.

As one 19-year-old "oppressed person" explained, "People see thing and want them."  Well there ya go, citizen.

So what's next for the Peoples' Republic of Cali, eh?  Can you predict?  Sure you can.  Soros-elected DAs like George Gascon will continue to refuse to prosecute violent criminals, either altogether or by downgrading a violent assault or drive-by shooting to "illegal possession of a firearm" or similar.  And moronic voters will continue to keep Gascon and DAs like him power.

And the demonic Democrat politicians of California, who enabled all this crime, will laugh at the stupidity of voters.

Source: Heather Macdonald in City Journal

https://www.city-journal.org/the-great-abdication-of-california?wallit_nosession=1