It's hard to choose to prosecute misdemeanors when you already have a backlog of felonies, the jails and prisons are already full, etc. This is not a unique sit

It's hard to choose to prosecute misdemeanors when you already have a backlog of felonies, the jails and prisons are already full, etc. This is not a unique situation in San Francisco, though it is often claimed that the level of theft there is unique. And this isn't exactly the same thing as the law saying there are no consequences, which is what the parent poster was claiming.