California Legalized Theft. Everyone’s Packages Were Stolen. | Frontpagemag

California Legalized Theft. Everyone’s Packages Were Stolen. | Frontpagemag: California legalized theft with Proposition 47. Since then pharmacies and small businesses have been forced to shut down by a wave of shoplifters with nothing to fear from the law. But it’s not just stores that are reeling from the crime wave unleashed by criminal justice reform. Proposition 47 was passed in 2014. LAPD crime data shows that package thefts shot up from 500 to 700 between 2014 to 2015. By 2016, they rose to 1,000, and 1,200 in 2017. In Sawtelle, home to Little Tokyo and a historic Japanese neighborhood, package theft went from practically zero to a record high in only a few years after Democrats legalized stealing. Legalizing theft didn’t just hit stores, but led to an epidemic of ‘porch piracy’.