Guv Newsom opposed Prop. 36. He wanted to keep Prop. 47 and its ability to keep criminals on the streets. Gavin has tried to make honest people victims by protecting criminal illegal aliens. Now, he is taking credit for laws he opposed.
“California’s 10+ year crime crisis spared no one, except high ranking politicians and Hollywood elite who have private security. Crime and rampant retail theft throughout California cities caused thousands of small business to go under, and chain store closures. Escalating fentanyl overdoses have been killing young Californians at a stunning rate. And that is why voters passed Proposition 36.
However, the state’s haughty governor Gavin Newsom, isn’t having any of it. He claims that he is responsible for the theft arrests – just like he is “responsible” for having the brilliant foresight to create his own DOGE in California – “we’ve been working since before DOGE was DOGE, updating job descriptions for years,” he claimed. Wow. Monumental progress.
“Gov. Gavin Newsom doubled down Friday on his opposition to Proposition 36, the newly enacted statewide anti-crime initiative, and claimed that recent progress cracking down on retail theft can be attributed to his creation of a statewide California Highway Patrol anti-organized retail theft task force,” SacBee.com reported.
Only a pretentious, ambitious politician from California could be this dense.”
Newsom will make a “great” Progressive” Democrat candidate against Vice President Vance. Looks like 2028 will be better than 2024 for Americans.
Haughty Gov. Gavin Newsom Takes Credit for ‘Recent Crack Down on Retail Theft’
Voter’s are responsible for passage of Proposition 36 in Nov. to reverse the state’s perverse lax theft laws
By Katy Grimes, California Globe, 12/28/24 https://californiaglobe.com/fl/haughty-gov-gavin-newsom-takes-credit-for-recent-crack-down-on-retail-theft/
The recent news stories of actual arrests for blatant crime and serial theft rings in California is thanks to voter’s overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 36 to reverse the state’s perverse lax theft laws.
Most people are celebrating that California is making crime illegal again and one of the biggest political revolutions since Proposition 13 – and a repudiation of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who openly campaigned against the anti-crime initiative.
It’s been a long 10+ years under Assembly Bill 109, Assembly Bill 1050, Proposition 47, Proposition 57, Senate Bill 620, Senate Bill 1391, Senate Bill 1437, all of which undermined California’s “Three Strikes law” which successfully dealt with recidivist criminals (details here and here).
California leads the nation in fentanyl deaths, drug-addicted homeless vagrants living on the streets, and retail theft thanks to Proposition 47 resulting in California’s once tough-on-crime laws systematically undermined and destroyed with these horrific policies.
Democrats in the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom attempted to derail Prop. 36, despite its important legal fixes to California’s staggering crime problems.
California’s 10+ year crime crisis spared no one, except high ranking politicians and Hollywood elite who have private security. Crime and rampant retail theft throughout California cities caused thousands of small business to go under, and chain store closures. Escalating fentanyl overdoses have been killing young Californians at a stunning rate. And that is why voters passed Proposition 36.
However, the state’s haughty governor Gavin Newsom, isn’t having any of it. He claims that he is responsible for the theft arrests – just like he is “responsible” for having the brilliant foresight to create his own DOGE in California – “we’ve been working since before DOGE was DOGE, updating job descriptions for years,” he claimed. Wow. Monumental progress.
“Gov. Gavin Newsom doubled down Friday on his opposition to Proposition 36, the newly enacted statewide anti-crime initiative, and claimed that recent progress cracking down on retail theft can be attributed to his creation of a statewide California Highway Patrol anti-organized retail theft task force,” SacBee.com reported.
Only a pretentious, ambitious politician from California could be this dense.
The Bee reports that Newsom said Prop. 36, which passed overwhelmingly last month, primarily addressed “’nonviolent drug possession’ and did not allow for multiple law enforcement agencies to work together, unlike the CHP task force he has touted as a major facet of his statewide anti-retail theft strategy. The task force has been in existence since 2019, when Newsom first took office.”
If Newsom has had his anti-organized retail theft task force since 2019, why didn’t the imperious governor unleash it on California’s crime-laden cities sooner and prevent business closures, theft of millions of dollars worth of products, violence and drug rings?
What a hypocrite. Newsom only announces a move like his anti-organized retail theft task force, at a time which will benefit him politically. He doesn’t care about the damage and harm to the people of California since he took office in 2019… when he supposedly created his anti-organized retail theft task force.
And where has California’s media been during these 10 years of chaos?
The Sanctuary Press has been covering for the cavalier Sanctuary State Governor.
As the Globe reported in April 2024, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig gave the details and brought the receipts of the damage Prop. 47 has caused:
“Homelessness has increased 51% in CA since Prop 47 passed and essentially decriminalized hard drugs like fentanyl and meth in 2014. Meanwhile, homelessness decreased 11% in the rest of the country combined. A recent audit found: “California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over a five-year period but didn’t consistently track the outcomes or effectiveness of its programs, according to state audit released Tuesday.”
DA Reisig also dropped this factoid and the photo with the Capitol in the background:
Fentanyl is openly sold on the streets near California’s Capitol for $1.50/pill. Same scene in SF, LA, SD & more. CA leads the nation in fentanyl deaths, homelessness and retail theft. Ignoring the connections is malpractice.
Sacramento homeless drug addicts. (Photo: sacda)
This is photographic evidence of the aftermath of Gavin Newsom’s California.
Newsom claimed:
“Prop. 36 never included organized retail theft, it never addressed that issue,” Newsom told reporters from a CHP facility in Oakland. “It never addressed the issue of vehicle crimes. Never addressed the issue of multijurisdictional prosecutions.”
Except that The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act specifically goes after serial thieves and drug crimes, and would elevate the third time someone commits retail theft to a felony charge.
As the Globe has reported, and according to experts involved in writing the initiative, December 20th, the day the initiative went into effect, a thief caught a third time, with any prior theft charges on his adult record, can be charged with a felony. And if he is caught stealing a fourth time, he is eligible for prison.
The discretion will remain with the District Attorneys and Judges, but the law has been restored to allow increased penalties with increased thefts.
As the Globe reported in Governor Gavin Newsom: Coulda, Woulda Shoulda earlier this week, the city of Vallejo has been begging the Governor’s office for CHP help with the city’s dangerous escalating crime. It’s been crickets from the governor’s office, despite daily and weekly requests.
“The CHP is already providing a little assistance, not their surge teams like they are in Oakland, but occasional street patrols when they’re coming off the freeways,” said Vallejo City Manager Andrew Murray, KTVU recently reported.
Where is Newsom’s anti-organized retail theft task force? Why isn’t he talking with Vallejo officials?
Gov. Newsom and Democrat legislators could have thrown support behind the Fix 47, Prop. 36 ballot initiative if they really believe in “bipartisan” agreements – many of the state’s Democrat Mayors supported the initiative. But this is more about Democrats controlling the process than it is fixing a problem.
As haughty Governor Gavin Newsom said in the Bee article, “I applaud any effort to address the issue of retail theft. I’ve been applauding that for years and years, and I’m very grateful to the work of the California Highway Patrol continuum of advancing those efforts.”
Yeah, right. It shows.
Proposition 47, was passed by tragically misinformed voters in 2014, and flagrantly titled “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” by then Attorney General Kamala Harris, which reduced a host of serious felonies to misdemeanors, including drug crimes, date rape, and all thefts under $950, even for repeat offenders who steal every day. Prop. 47 also decriminalized drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor, removed law enforcement’s ability to make an arrest in most circumstances, as well as removing judges’ ability to order drug rehabilitation programs rather than incarceration.
