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I don't really know the reason for it, but it's an actual policy that cities have: https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-shoplifters-theft-walgreens-decri

by Dig1t 4y ago

I don't really know the reason for it, but it's an actual policy that cities have: https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-shoplifters-theft-walgreens-decriminalized-11634678239 https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-shoplifters-theft... Just walk the street on any given day in SF, you are guaranteed to see at least one broken car window. Smash and grabs are rampant.

snozolli 4y ago
I don't know if the rest of the article is behind a paywall, but I don't see anything about a policy. The only policies I've heard of are either police department policies -- which is just codified laziness and refusal to do their job -- or district attorney policy which, as I said, shouldn't be relevant to whether or not police make arrests. It's their job to arrest people for crimes, not to solely arrest people for crimes for which they think they can get a conviction.