The writers are misinformed. Walk down Wilshire Blvd and you'll see homeless people urinating in public. It's a disgrace to law abiding citizens. There's homeless people everywhere, my neighbors live out if their RV, it is an eye soar for all citizens. The cops will do nothing about it. Don't leave any valuables in a vehicle in downtown SF in broad daylight, or you may come back to broken windows. California is a criminal's dream come. Take away the palm trees and beaches and it's a disgusting place.
Cops I have spoken with blame the huge increase in property crime squarely on Prop. 47. The streets of San Francisco are littered with broken glass from countless car break-ins, which are essentially ignored by the police for fear of arresting illegal immigrants. Last year, an SF jury acquitted a multiply-deported felon, a beneficiary of our sanctuary laws, of killing a young woman at one of our premier tourist destinations - they decided that the gun 'just went off'. Once safe suburban neighborhoods are seeing many more daytime burglaries. To say nothing of our streets littered with syringes, excrement, and aggressive, mentally disturbed panhandlers.
As the most prominent bastion of progressivism, California is the Republicans' best argument to the rest of the country for re-electing Trump. May the Goddess save us all.
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That is spot-on. Break-ins and property crime are rampant in San Francisco. Prop 47 is the culprit, and must go. The only way to stop this is to give these bad people hard time.
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California wants to provide health insurance to 1.3 million illegal aliens- there goes the neighborhood!
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209...
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Are Ca criminal justice systems safer?
LOL.
Nobody reports crime anymore. It doesn't do any good.
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What seems particularly interesting is how they backers of reform change the way they count the crimes, the way they describe the crimes, and the statistics about the crimes, when the numbers don't coincide with their claims.
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No more water to feckless Southern California; Northern California doesn't waste nearly as much water on swimming pools, lawn sprinklers and the like. We're already fighting fires up here and we're going to give them more water! HELL NO! The only thing that could get me to vote for dividing California into smaller states is the sovereignty of our water!
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I would say NO. In LA, thanks to the ridiculous Prop 47 which reduced property crime to a no-jail misdemeanor, break-ins and theft are climbing. Rare is the night that I don't get a neighborhood watch surveillance video of a tweaker peering in someone's window at 3AM, or people trying to break into parked cars. Add the exploding homeless population, many of whom are drug-addled or off-meds mentally ill and you have a potpourri of misery. A belligerent homeless guy was yelling and raving on a nearby street, neighbors called the cops - they took 40 mins to arrive. My favorite video is of two cars trying to pass each other on a narrow Hollywood Hills street. One driver gets out with a hatchet and swings it at the other car, popping the rear light of a passing vehicle. Then he screamed obscenities, got in his car and drove away... Several years ago we went to check out the Oscar preparations in Hollywood and 100 yards from the red carpet was a generous lump of human excrement - which kind of sums this city up. And to think Garcetti wants to export this to a national level!
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