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Re:Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreen... by TMWNN on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:33AM (#27217402)
>[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.

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Re:Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreen... by dragonwriter on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:27AM (#27218045)
> 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.

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