Prosecutors already have the tools to prosecute smash and grab sprees as felonies – but only if the perpetrators are caught.
Inmates in Orange County’s Central Men’s Jail. Over the summer, multiple stores in Los Angeles were targeted in an organized retail theft spree resulting in the loss of over $750,000 worth of merchandise. It was just the latest in a slew of brazen smash-and-grab style crimes across the state that were captured on video and viewed by millions of people.
Let’s start by dispelling an increasingly common, albeit objectively false, claim by many in law enforcement that a law passed 9 years ago, Proposition 47, is responsible for alleged increases in property andcrimes in California this year. For background, Proposition 47–which was backed by nearly 60% of California voters–reduced simple possession of drugs for from a felony to a misdemeanor and increased the felony theft threshold from $400 to $950 to keep pace with inflation.
At the heart of this matter is getting results for Californians. So what actually deters crime in the first place?, the certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the severity of the punishment. That means that increasing the perception that you’ll be arrested by police is far more likely to deter crime like the smash and grabs captured on video than increasing punishment through a repeal of Proposition 47 or otherwise.
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