“Catch and release” is a phrase that is normally reserved for discussions about immigration, but it is also the policy that pro-criminal district attorneys in cities like Los Angeles have promoted and adopted for criminals big and small.
Smash-and-grab robberies, where a pack of criminals raid a store at the same time and make off with merchandise, have become an epidemic in Los Angeles. The problem has become so large that Gov. Gavin Newsom has had to step in and triple the California Highway Patrol’s resources in the area to deal with it. Mayor Karen Bass has also established a new task force focused on organized retail crime.Los Angeles’s zero-bail policy was reinstated by a judge earlier this year after a lawsuit.
NEW: Yesterday, Glendale PD announced the arrest of Ivan Ramirez, the first suspect arrested in connection with the mass smash & grab of a YSL store.
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