What Was California Thinking?

Even though crime has skyrocketed, the prison population is down.  So our neighborhoods must be safer, right?  If things don’t feel safer in California, consider this: making it no longer a felony to steal stuff, doesn’t mean people aren’t still stealing stuff.  They’re just not being arrested for it.  But the felony numbers are down, so the neighborhoods and schools must be safer.

 American Thinker  . . . "In a further demonstration of out-of-control liberalism, the voting public elected district attorneys who are more inclined to work as advocates for, rather than prosecutors of criminals.  Even though he’s only been in office for six months, a recall effort is currently underway for Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, due to his soft-on-crime policies.  He was even sued by his own prosecutors for restricting their ability to seek enhanced sentences.  News flash: Gascón shouldn’t be recalled. He should have never been elected.

"Los Angeles may have been unwise, but San Francisco was totally insane.  The City by the Bay elected Chesa Boudin as its District Attorney.  His parents were members of the Weather Underground and served time in prison for the murder of two police officers and an armored car guard.  After his parents were incarcerated, Chesa was adopted and raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were also unrepentant terrorist members of the Weather Underground.  If those names sound familiar, they’re the same Bill and Bernardine who are friends and supporters of the Obamas.  Now that he’s in office, Boudin is more interested in social justice than criminal justice.  It’s a real shocker, but it turns out a person raised by people determined to bring down our society is not particularly interested in defending it.  He, like many of his fellow leftist DAs, simply chooses not to prosecute criminals that don’t fit the social justice narrative.  The voters of California are getting what they asked for -- good and hard!

"The end result of these changes was foreseeable to anyone who understands human nature -- which is clearly beyond the understanding of Democrats in general and California leftists in particular.

Drug use has skyrocketed in California.  Sleeping, drugged-out junkies litter the floors of BART train stations.  Fortunately, junkies do have an easy means to support their drug habits.  They can simply steal stuff -- with no risk of jail time." . . .