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California ballot measure blamed for shoplifting jump
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| May 14, 2016
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Posted on 05/14/2016 12:11:47 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
What? You mean you’re still limping along with that thing instead of the femto model that came out back in February?
To: B Knotts
FYI, the ballot measure that did this was Proposition 47:
Otherwise known as, “The We Want More Crime Initiative”.
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posted on
05/14/2016 12:43:40 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(Please dont feed the liberals)
To: ladyjane
Yep, kind of a variation on the “Everything’s A Thousand Dollars” store.
Man, California is just full of good ideas /s
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posted on
05/14/2016 12:51:27 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Leaning Right
Shoplifting is a civil right.
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posted on
05/14/2016 12:55:05 PM PDT
by
rainee
(Her)
To: SFConservative
Forgive me, I’m a luddite on a budget!
To: Leaning Right
One thing I never understood about this kind of limit is that, as far as I know, it’s based on what the shop keeper sets the price (what you’d pay at the register) and not on what the item was purchased for by the retailer.
In any other circumstance of loss (say a judgement or insurance claim), the value is the present value, and never a retail sales price.
This creates some absurdity in my mind when you consider that something priced a bit over the limit results in a felony, but if you steal it when it’s on sale, it’s now a misdemeanor.
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posted on
05/14/2016 12:57:10 PM PDT
by
fruser1
To: Auntie Mame
Thanks for looking it up.
To: SFConservative
You do realize your arguing has triggered me. I now have to go to my safe space to listen to calming music and color in my books.
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:02:58 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
To: joshua c
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:05:42 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Just another Tenther)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
<doubling down> Nah, just do it the old-fashioned way and take it out on the first person who crosses your path! </doubling down>
To: kingu
I suppose there must exist people have pockets deep enough to be able to consider a $900 item an “impulse purchase”.
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:15:24 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Mohammed was a war mongering pedophile rapist who started a Satanic death cult. Arrest me, Lynch.)
To: Leaning Right
That does not address my suggestion.
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:16:52 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Mohammed was a war mongering pedophile rapist who started a Satanic death cult. Arrest me, Lynch.)
To: lee martell
When did we vote on that? I must not have been paying attention. You have to understand that those who make the law are far more qualified than you to understand the way life ought to be lived by lesser beings.
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:22:32 PM PDT
by
tbpiper
To: Auntie Mame
I didn’t vote for it. Now they’re all out on the streets stealing anything that’s not nailed down. Add all the prisoners they let out and the non prosecutions and it’s a free for all.......everywhere.
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:35:09 PM PDT
by
sheana
To: ExGeeEye
I suppose there must exist people have pockets deep enough to be able to consider a $900 item an impulse purchase.Credit cards and tax refunds, two things very welcome at such stores.
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:35:39 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
So, did someone determine that prosecuting shoplifting is racist?
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:42:24 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
To: Leaning Right
Facilitating crime begets more crime. A misdemeanor should be under $20, make the rest felonies.
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posted on
05/14/2016 1:57:33 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Make America Great Again Starts with America First! I stand with Trump.)
To: Leaning Right
But if the retailer doesn’t allow dudes into the women’s bathroom, the police will be right over.
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posted on
05/14/2016 2:02:05 PM PDT
by
Vic S
(I am not a number; I am a free man!)
To: Leaning Right
How about keeping them in a locked storage area????
Sorry, but we have too much serious crime to worry about.
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posted on
05/14/2016 2:09:34 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Leaning Right
.... It's called ..... "Cause and Effect" and the "Law of Unintended Consequences." Those are two things that Liberals CANNOT understand! They just do not and cannot understand common sense and the logical repercussions for ones actions.
.... Those things are absolute mysteries to those that believe in the Liberal Socialist Utopian society where everybody should have "Equal" outcomes in life.
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posted on
05/14/2016 2:14:43 PM PDT
by
R_Kangel
( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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