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Re:What crime stats don't reveal about crime in San Francisco by josephcsible on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:31PM (#35489909)
> You're talking about Prop 47, and the number is $950. There's some pretty widespread misconceptions about Prop 47, first of which is that theft under that amount is not "legal" - it's just a misdemeanor instead of a felony.

> But I think something much more important to recognize is that this law is hardly a uniquely Californian affair. Texas, of all places, has an equivalent law, except its limit is $2500 - higher than California's: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/08/09/what-s-the-pun...

Unlike in Texas, misdemeanors aren't taken seriously at all in California (i.e., the charges are usually dropped), to the point that things that don't reach the bar of being a felony are de facto legal.

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Re:What crime stats don't reveal about crime in San Francisco by hotpotamus on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:46PM (#35490343)
In Texas, our Attorney General is currently under indictment for felonies[0] (and has been for going on a decade; I suppose he's good at legal delays), so I don't get the impression that felonies are taken particularly seriously either.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton#Legal_issues

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