Exactly. What's important in deterring crime is not just the length of the sentence. It's the likelihood of being caught and punished. I don't necessarily wa

Exactly. What's important in deterring crime is not just the length of the sentence. It's the likelihood of being caught and punished. I don't necessarily want to lock people up for petty theft. But I do want them to face some sort of punishment, even community service, with follow-up and escalating punishments if the community service is not completed. If the implication is that we were prosecuting these crimes before Prop 47, them we can still prosecute every one of them, we just don't need to charge them as felonies.