In November, California voters will have a chance to restore some sanity to the state’s criminal justice system over the objections of pro-criminal activists who reformed it into the mess it is today.
A rollback of California’s Proposition 47 will likely be on the ballot in November. Proposition 47 softened penalties for nonviolent felonies such as fraud and shoplifting, leading in part to the surge in organized retail theft plaguing California neighborhoods. The repeal proposition that would be on the ballot would allow repeat drug and theft offenders to be hit with felonies rather than repeated soft misdemeanors and would make it easier for prosecutors to charge fentanyl dealers with homicides.
Laws are only as good as the prosecutors who are enforcing them, though, which is why voters in Oakland and Los Angeles will be contemplating their own changes. Alameda County District…
