Re:Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreen...
by TMWNN on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:33AM
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>[0] try to satisfy anyone advocating decriminalization of X by reducing some instances of X from a felony to a misdemeanor.
DA Boudin has made it clear that such "minor" crimes won't be prosecuted. Period. That's decriminalization, de facto if not de jure.
Re:Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreen...
by dragonwriter on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:27AM
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> DA Boudin has made it clear that such "minor" crimes won't be prosecuted.
To the extent that may be true that’s DA Boudin, not Prop 47.
No, it didn’t:
(1) It didn’t decriminalize anything[0], and
(2) for the acts it reduced the severity of the available criminal pubishment for to which $950 is a relevant amount: (a) the limit applies per act not per day, a d (b) the scope is much narrower than “property crimes”, generally.
[0] try to satisfy anyone advocating decriminalization of X by reducing some instances of X from a felony to a misdemeanor.