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This is patently false, do you think people didn't go to prison prior to the law change? In fact, so many people were risking prison time for petty theft that i

This is patently false, do you think people didn't go to prison prior to the law change? In fact, so many people were risking prison time for petty theft that is what led to enacting the law in first place to deal with the overcrowding in the state prison system, as summed up in this layman article: https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-160551360299 https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-160551360299

desmosxxx 5y ago
> overcrowding in the state prison system and so our solution is to change the law, instead of dealing with whatever is causing people to steal in the first place. Theft is a grey area between non-violence and violence, I'd rather we deal with the root causes rather than just making it less of a crime. If murders were overcrowding prisons, i doubt many people would be calling for reduced murder sentencing (although im sure some would)
- rayiner 5y ago
  The “root causes” of theft (and most crime) is social breakdown. It’s not poverty or need—or you’d expect far more crime in say India than in the US and you don’t actually see that.