The laws of economics are immutable and universal. It you want to sell more of something, lower the price. If you want to sell less of something, raise the price. People are not stupid, and if you increase the price of something, fewer people will be willing to pay that price, regardless of what it is you are selling.
Bleeding heart liberals do not think the laws of economics apply to criminals. They do not accept the fact that if you increase the time served for a crime, criminals will think twice or three times before they commit a particular crime. Liberals, to coin a phrase, must be astonishingly ignorant to not understand such a basic concept.
To put it simply, if you establish that the penalty for stealing a car is a $100 fine, you will have many more cars stolen than if the penalty is to cut off the hand of the thief. Criminals are not stupid in that sense, but somehow liberals and voters in California decided that these simple economic laws did not apply to criminals in the state. And so they changed the law and decided that a property theft below $950 only constituted a misdemeanor, which the police do not really have the time to pursue, where the benchmark before was that anything over $400 was a felony.
Can you guess what happened?
Crime rises as penalty is eased, page 2:
Welcome to California, the next Chicago.
Stupid liberals
Thieves should pay.
It is called restitution.
Or is that illegal in Cali?
You got that right – I’ve been saying that for years.
Pass a stand your ground law that allows business owners to shoot shop lifters! Problem solved!
Stealing is a crime,we have laws in this country
Gee you mean you actually have to pay for things,no Obamo Santa???????
Build that wall California! Keep your stupidity away from the rest of us.
Ray Luse I agree
so in an effort to try and stave off the possibility of some of these people not being able to find employment, we will just make penalties smaller. Yeah great idea there high speed. Cuz its not like they made an active decision to participate in crimnal activity. Its not like these people are stealing bread to feed their families, this is stuff over $400 originally, i.e. electronics, jewelry, designer items. They are committing a crime that they knew the consequences and ignored them.
Having worked in many fields there are plenty of places they can still get a job. Or maybe they should not have committed the crime in the first place. They can also get their record expunged. But just lessening punishment isnt the right answer, all it does is reward them