WATCH: Criminals brazenly loot store in San Francisco because of ridiculous law passed in California

In the video below criminals loot a store in San Francisco in broad daylight and in front of the very people who work in the store, and these criminals do it without any hesitation whatsoever:

You might be thinking to yourself ‘what the heck’??? How does this even happen???

It goes back just over five years ago to Prop 47 passed in a referendum in California:

FOX NEWS – These brazen acts of petty theft and shoplifting are a dangerous and all-too-common consequence of Proposition 47, a referendum passed five years ago that critics say effectively gives shoplifters and addicts the green light to commit crimes as long as the merchandise they steal or the drugs they take are less than $950 in value. The decision to downgrade theft of property valued below the arbitrary figure from felony to misdemeanor, together with selective enforcement that focuses on more “serious” crimes, has resulted in thieves knowing they can brazenly shoplift and merchants knowing the police will not respond to their complaints, say critics.

I’d say based on this video the critics were right.

So why did they pass such a law?

Proposition 47 is seen by critics as one of California’s biggest blunders. Supported by the state Democratic Party and championed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the referendum was passed by a wide margin in 2014. The idea behind it was to reduce certain non-violent felonies to misdemeanors in order to free up resources for cops and prosecutors to focus on violent offenders.

The consequences of this law have been dire, giving life to the underground black market, which has organized itself teams of brazen looters that no longer fear law enforcement because they know law enforcement doesn’t care about them:

Since Proposition 47 was passed, there has been an increase in theft across the state. Cities like San Francisco have seen organized crime rings turn shoplifting into a well-organized racket involving desperate thieves and unscrupulous black-market resellers.

Among the nation’s 20 largest cities, San Francisco now has the highest rate of property crime, which includes theft, shoplifting and vandalism.

Del Seymour, founder of the non-profit Code Tenderloin, told Fox News that fencers – often from Mexico and Guatemala – set up shop in the middle of the day and night around the city’s United Nations Plaza area. He said he’s also noticed that the stealers and dealers have gotten bolder by the day. The retail heists taking place, he said, aren’t some small-time operation but instead a sophisticated network of international dealers who cross the border to buy stolen goods. What’s worse is that a majority of the handoffs happen in view of San Francisco’s City Hall.

While San Francisco may be the worst city for shoplifting, it’s not just San Francisco:

The problem isn’t just San Francisco-based. Across the state, retailers say they have been hit hard by shoplifters since Prop 47 went into effect.

Across the bay, in Oakland, business owners say shoplifting is a problem. Spoiled Boutique owner Mika McCants told Fox News she worries about theft, especially at night.

“I’ve had situations where I’ve had to call the authorities.”

In San Diego County, 7-Eleven franchise owner Jassi Dhillon told NBC 7 that he has to deal with shoplifters at all six of his store locations.

“It’s happening every day, hour by hour,” he said.

Dhillon said shoplifting isn’t a priority to law enforcement and said when cops do show up, the shoplifter has left the store or isn’t concerned about the citation they are issued.

“It’s becoming a lifestyle for us now because we can’t do anything much except take the loss,” he said.

Crime rings are now using children to steal because they know children are even less of a priority for law enforcement:

“They know what they’re doing. They will bring in calculators and get all the way up to the $950 limit,” Michelin told Fox News, adding that “one person will go into a store, fill up their backpack, come out, dump it out and go right back in and do it all over again.”

Michelin said she’s seen footage from member retailers that she described as “completely insane.”

“They will go into a grocery store, steal alcohol and walk out the front door with it,” she said. “They know no one is going to prosecute them. The district attorneys aren’t.”

She added that there are even more sinister acts afoot. Many out-of-state crime rings use children to do their dirty work because they know they’re low on the totem pole of prosecutions.

“There are folks that are using and exploiting children,” she said. “But I also think that teenagers know that there are no consequences anymore. It’s part of a game. If you get caught, all you have to do is get out of the store.”

Is it any wonder that Californians are leaving the state in droves? This is why so many on the right call liberalism a ‘mental disorder’, because these leftists who run the state would rather think ideally about things rather than pragmatically, and it leads to damnable scenarios just like what you see in the video above.


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