Organized Retail Theft On The Rise; Cops Blame Prop 47, Safe Neighborhoods Law

California effectively decriminalized theft with a value of less than $950. Lo and behold, theft has skyrocketed.

It’s like a low-rent, 24-7 version of The Purge. I’m sufficiently cynical realistic enough to recognize that if you cease to make it seriously illegal to steal, say, TVs, a lot of people will decide to steal TVs. Makes me wonder if They legalized murder, just how many people would decide to go ahead and do it.

I do also wonder about the possible *useful* applications of laws like Prop 47. Go ahead and make retail theft essentially decriminalized, penalized solely by a minor ticket. make it known that this sort of anti-social behavior is essentially tolerated. Then, after a few years… pass another law. One that collects all the data recorded since the original law, allowing the government to simply round up everyone who has been ticketed for thefts like this. And then… strip them of citizenship and deport them. Unconstitutional? Sure. But get around that by calling it the “O’Rourke/Swalwell Nuke’ em Now Executive Order.” “Hell yes we will deport you.”

Sending a million or two people who are clearly of detriment to society somewhere else would do wonders for the crime rate… and the gene pool.