New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab
robberies, car thefts and shoplifting
Associated Press,
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TRÂN NGUYỄN
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Posted By: Imright,
8/16/2024 8:52:05 PM
Sacramento, Calif.—California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bipartisan package of 10 bills that aims to crack down on smash-and-grab robberies and property crimes, making it easier to go after repeat shoplifters and auto thieves and increase penalties for those running professional reselling schemes.
The move comes as Democratic leadership works to prove that they’re tough enough on crime while trying to convince voters reject a ballot measure that would bring even harsher sentences for repeat offenders of shoplifting and drug charges.
While shoplifting has been a growing problem, large-scale, smash-and-grab thefts, in which groups of individuals brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight, have become
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/16/2024 9:08:49 PM (No. 1779447)
So what are they going to do..... make 'high volume resellers' pay a special sales tax?
I hope the voters can pass this Prop 36, but I'll bet that if it does pass, the Cal state bureaucrats will find a way to negate it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/16/2024 9:27:18 PM (No. 1779455)
Bet the under. They'll antagonize their voting base.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catherine 8/16/2024 9:29:10 PM (No. 1779457)
We already have laws about this. It's called stealing. Against the law. We have trials and sentences for breaking these crimes. Why did they need more laws they won't enforce?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 8/16/2024 10:01:26 PM (No. 1779475)
Catch em' so the liberal Kalifornication judges can turn them loose...nothing will change until they jail them...in jail they can't commit crimes...I mean, how hard it that to understand???
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/16/2024 11:24:52 PM (No. 1779500)
You don't need new laws! You need to enforce the ones that you already have!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mifla 8/17/2024 3:55:58 AM (No. 1779544)
We need new immigration laws to fix the problem!
We need new gun laws to fix the problem!
Now we need new crime laws to fix the problem!
No, doofus, just start enforcing the laws that already exist. If you aren't enforcing the existing laws, you won't enforce the new laws.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/17/2024 5:26:36 AM (No. 1779576)
Where's Newscom going to put all those criminals? Didn't he close a lot of prisons just like Hatchet Hatchel did?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/17/2024 5:38:45 AM (No. 1779580)
Meanwhile at the Beverly Hills Hotel two gunman stole a million dollar Patek Philippe from a guy sitting at an outdoor table at gunpoint.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/17/2024 6:56:24 AM (No. 1779600)
It must be election time. Eye candy for the voters.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
edgar 8/17/2024 8:38:20 AM (No. 1779668)
Higher bail and longer prison sentences will send a better message. Just letting criminals walk out the door after being apprehended leads to more crime. The Soros Effect.
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Shooting on sight would be the most effective in reducing smash-and-grab crime.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 8/17/2024 10:12:04 AM (No. 1779730)
A lot of good that'll do, with so many District Attorneys following the Soros-ian catch-and-release strategy. How about a new law that says officials should use the laws we already have before passing new ones?
Maybe because PASSING laws is seen as positive action, while enforcing laws is seen as repressive. A demented notion promulgated by media that have no aversion to hypocrisy and self-contradiction.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chumley 8/17/2024 10:28:28 AM (No. 1779748)
How about immunity for merchants who use deadly force to stop these filthy animals? If a starving feral dog is attacking your tent, you dont call a ranger and you dont give up your food. You shoot it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 8/17/2024 10:38:05 AM (No. 1779762)
Sorry, Guv Hairgel, but that train done left the station . . . crime, especially organized crime, in California is now systemic, aided by Soros-funded DAs and liberal judges that result in low levels of convictions and jail time.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/17/2024 11:51:50 AM (No. 1779806)
California has been letting people smash and grab. rob and steal for the last 15 - 20 years at least. NOW they want to do something? BS
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/17/2024 11:58:50 AM (No. 1779811)
How about locking them into the front of the store, Double doors, once they go in they can't get out.
THEN Arrest them and force them to clean up the Fecal matter all over town.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/17/2024 1:01:23 PM (No. 1779833)
The thieving must be starting to finally hit home. Stores closing by the hundreds and productive, tax-paying citizens leaving the state are having the one effect that gets the politicians attention...less money to blow away. They really don't care if stores and individuals get robbed blind but if the tax base starts shrinking, they start to get worried.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/17/2024 3:28:55 PM (No. 1779908)
Laws are worthless if Liberal Soros prosecutors won't prosecute offenders.
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