<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:01 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am reading that the police in California don't bother with minor crimes now.<br>
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"Rampant Shoplifting Forces Ten Bay Area Walgreens To Close March 5, 2021"<br>
<<a href="https://dawsoncountyjournal.com/blog/2021/03/05/rampant-shoplifting-forces-ten-bay-area-walgreens-to-close/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dawsoncountyjournal.com/blog/2021/03/05/rampant-shoplifting-forces-ten-bay-area-walgreens-to-close/</a>><br>
Theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent<br>
misdemeanor under California law. But in most cases, for shoplifting,<br>
the criminal is released.<br>
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So finding their vehicle might not help much.<br>
Solution - Move to Florida or Texas like the rest of California escapees! :)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Solution: fund the courts so that processing these cases becomes a small enough burden that the cops don't have to let these go to make sure that serious crimes reliably get prosecuted. </div></div></div>