Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the Bay Area News Group and East Bay Times. He edits the Hills weekly Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice, El Cerrito Journal, Montclarion and Piedmonter newspapers; Central Costa County's weekly Concord Transcript and Walnut Creek Journal papers; and East Contra Costa's weekly East County News.
This fall’s campaign over the anti-crime Proposition 36 now promises to be one of the more expensive and unnecessary ballot measure campaigns California has seen, as avid supporters of the 2014 Proposition 47 battle to keep it alive in more than just name.
Much of law enforcement views Prop. 47 as an abject failure, though, that’s caused more crime by reducing many former felony offenses to misdemeanors and setting $950 as the lower limit for the value of felony thefts. Never mind, they say, official statistics that suggest most crime levels are now near all-time lows.
No attempt was made at compromise, though. Rather, under pressure from Newsom, legislators passed a package of new laws allowing felony prosecutions on the third theft offense, regardless of value. The new laws also let judges impose restraining orders preventing “minor” thieves from revisiting stores they’ve shoplifted, while eliminating time limits for prosecution of organized retail thievery like last year’s well publicized smash-and-grab burglaries of major retail stores.
“These measures deepen mass incarceration, and is going in reverse of where Californians ,” said state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, D-Los Angeles. Her statement added that “increased criminalization too often falls on the backs of Black and Latino Californians.”
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