Just got home, glass of wine, shoes off and still pissed enough I could scream.
Today was the first day of Prop 47 hell at work. As I ranted last night:
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAARRRRREEEEEEEGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
There is no curse I imagine vile enough to thrust on my fellow Californians who are voting a big huge “Please come commit crime in our state! We don’t mind! Here’s a fruit basket”
Prop 47 looks to pass, it knocks a whole bunch of felonies down to misdemeanors … including fraud and theft under $950 … and wipes out any of them being used as priors or allowing any aggregation of value.
Here’s a perfect example … It’s Christmas time and I decide to help myself to a bunch of free loot (hey, its just a property crime right?) … I hit the mall, go into 5, 10, 12 stores with my booster bag and wire snips. I make sure I “liberate” $949 worth of stuff from each store.
So what if I get busted … each theft is separate. I may have hauled in $10k that one day, but I cannot be charged with more than misdemeanor petty theft at $949 an occurrence.
I’m not going to spend more than 1 or 2 days in jail. I’ll just keep doing it cause I will get away with it some of the time and no matter how long my rap sheet, it will always be a misdemeanor and I’ll never do any jail time.
what.the.fuck.is.wrong.with.voters????
Today DDAs were coming back from court gobsmacked … felony case after felony case, at all stages of a case’s lifecycle, were coming back with charges reduced to a misdemeanor. Those that had previously pled were having their pleas changes — and if they had already spent some time in jail, were being released forthwith with no probation (terminal dispo).
Are these all, poor misguided, addled addicts in need of a break and intervention??
Oh yeah, there was the guy who already did 20 years in State Prison as a 3rd striker (25 to life) who immediately got back into drugs and theft upon release. He was caught after breaking into a car and had cocaine on him. Both those charges now are misdemeanors that can never be bumped to a felony no matter what his priors. He was given credit for time served in jail waiting for Prelim and released this afternoon.
There was the gal, with a rap sheet a mile long for commercial burglary (theft from a store open for business), who was up for yet another theft; priors would have sent her to state prison for about 4 years … Oops! Priors don’t count any more! Time served, released with no probation.
Prop 47 is retroactive too! Career criminals serving prison time with one of these new misdemeanors as their last conviction will be petitioning for resentencing by the truck load over the next few months and getting released with no supervision into the populace.
People suck.
Great, look for an increase of robberies, rapes and murders. And, probably an increase of prosecutions of homeowners because they shoot would be robbers, rapists and murderers.
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The Mamas & The Papas: California Dreamin’
The dark art of reading tea leaves, animated gif.
The first act of a tyrant is to empty the jails to wreak havoc among the populace, who then plead for a crack-down on the violence and chaos.
And they get it, good and hard.
Well, it works really well to get those folks to migrate back to CA from AZ where they have been polluting our society and jails. I already had one pt move back to Mama’s house in Cali who can’t come back after a pot and meth bust here (skipped bail). CA can keep ’em.
Disgusting.
My sympathies, Darleen.
Get out of there.
Try looking on the bright side. At least you won’t have to worry about looters running riot after The Big One gives you the Third World infrastructure befitting your increasingly third worldish populace.
Even if only because there won’t be anything worth looting.
So, if we just redefine crime, we won’t have any anymore! Genius plan.
Elections have consequences so I’ve been told and California has finally voted itself into “interesting times.” May God (and Sam Colt) help you all.
So, if we just redefine crime, we won’t have any anymore! Genius plan.
Hey, are you dissing all those libertarians who cite the high cost of DEA busts as a reason to drop the laws?
For shame!
I make sure I “liberate” $949 worth of stuff from each store
If they have that much self control and can do math you would wish they could live more honest lives.
On the bright side, happyfeet got out just in time.
I miss it though
all day today I just wanted to hike up to Mulholland and breathe the sunshines
Instead I hung curtains
Tomorrow I’ll patch the walls
>I miss it though<
if it is brown
flush it down
it is sad about ca
went from dynamic future
to crony decay
Remember when just anything that happened in California was bound to spread to the rest of the country, because hey — California!..?
Long time ago, that was.
Get out.
::Channeling Amityville Horror::
McGehee — so true.
Cali used to be the trendsetter. No more.
Cali was something like the 6th largest economy in world at one time if I’m not mistaken.
Now it’s shitfail.
And they want to foist their soon-to-be-octogenarian hippie governor on the entire country as its president.
Reefer madness.