"Cage-free" criminals!-----Not Taking Crime Seriously California’s Prop 47 Exacerbated Crime and Drug Abuse

In November 2014, California voters approved a criminal justice reform measure, Proposition 47 (“Prop 47”), with almost 60% support. 

Ten years later, California voters are now considering rolling back some of its soft-on-crime policies. 

• Prop 47 identified six “petty” crimes—grand theft, larceny, personal drug use, forgery, and two types of check fraud—and reclassified them. 
• It downgraded these crimes, including thefts with property values under $950 and illegal drug possession for personal use, from felonies to misdemeanors...