>I've followed this with San Francisco, where taking $1,000 worth of items from a store is now de facto allowed. (I won't call it theft anymore because of this.

>I've followed this with San Francisco, where taking $1,000 worth of items from a store is now de facto allowed. (I won't call it theft anymore because of this.) And of course, already you have people like jaepa say elsewhere that ackshually TX has a higher dollar amount for when shoplifting becomes a felony. TX doesn't have DAs that refuse to prosecute misdemeanor shoplifting charges. CA does. That's the important difference, not so much the dollar amount.