California passed a proposition that theft of property under $950 will not be prosecuted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47

That means criminals engaging in such thefts cannot be legally arrested or prosecuted.

And we haven't even started discussing LA's new DA Gascon's aggressive move to decriminalize a very large set of offenses:

https://abc7.com/george-gascon-los-angeles-district-attorney...