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Same state where the governor had the wisdom to make shoplifting below $1000 a misdemeanor and the prosecutor can't be bothered to do their job. But yeah, blam
by hogepiyo 5y ago
Same state where the governor had the wisdom to make shoplifting below $1000 a misdemeanor and the prosecutor can't be bothered to do their job.
But yeah, blame the rail company, I guess?
- abrookewood 5y agoIt's not like blame is binary ...
- KennyBlanken 5y agoLowering the penalty for shoplifting to a misdemeanor would make it more appealing than the potential 20 year federal sentence that would come from federal prosecution) that robbing a train carries...not encourage robbing trains. But yeah, blame the state, I guess?
- khuey 5y agoa) that wasn't the governor b) California's felony theft threshold of $950 is still the 12th lowest among the states
- josephcsible 5y ago$950 being a misdemeanor isn't unreasonable on its own. It becomes unreasonable when you combine it with misdemeanors not being prosecuted, so it's not fair to compare the threshold in places that do prosecute them with places that don't.
- khuey 5y agoSure, but the problem there isn't the law, it's the cops and prosecutors.
- josephcsible 5y agoI'm saying that if you know you have a bad prosecutor, you should hold off on passing that law.
- Avshalom 5y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/shoplifting-holiday-theft-panic/621108/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/shoplifti...