{"id":9489,"date":"2023-08-30T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:40:13","slug":"regrets-of-a-democrat-prop-47-supporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9489","title":{"rendered":"Regrets of a Proposition 47 Supporter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I had supported Proposition 47, which basically said you wouldn’t prosecute \u2014the crimes were much different at the level of up to $950. I thought it was a good idea at the time because I thought, we need to give people an opportunity, we need to give people a chance,” David Canepa said to CBS News Bay Area.\u00a0 Canepa is a San Mateo County, California Democrat who sits on the\u00a0 Board of Supervisors.\u00a0 Kristine Parks of Fox News reports<\/a> that in the wake of out-of-control theft in the Bay Area, Canepa has changed his mind about Proposition 47: “I made a mistake, it was a big mistake, and you have to acknowledge your mistake,” he confessed. “By doing this, what we’ve done is we’re letting people take thousands and thousands of dollars. And why should people be subjugated?”\u00a0 With counties essentially helpless to crack down on thieves under Proposition 47, Camepa is now calling on the Governor and state Legislature to reduce the dollar amount of thefts that qualify as a felony.\u00a0 Two bills to do this, one authored by a Democrat and the other by a Republican died in the legislature last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I had supported Proposition 47, which basically said you wouldn’t prosecute \u2014the crimes were much different at the level of up to $950. I thought it was a good idea at the time because I thought, we need to give people an opportunity, we need to give people a chance,” David Canepa said to CBS News Bay Area.\u00a0 Canepa is a San Mateo County, California Democrat who sits on the\u00a0 Board of Supervisors.\u00a0 Kristine Parks of Fox News reports that in the wake of out-of-control theft in the Bay Area, Canepa has changed his mind about Proposition 47: “I made a mistake, it was a big mistake, and you have to acknowledge your mistake,” he confessed. “By doing this, what we’ve done is we’re letting people take thousands and thousands of dollars. And why should people be subjugated?”\u00a0 With counties essentially helpless to crack down on thieves under Proposition 47, Camepa is now calling on the Governor and state Legislature to reduce the dollar amount of thefts that qualify as a felony.\u00a0 Two bills to do this, one authored by a Democrat and the other by a Republican died in the legislature last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"yoast_head":"\nRegrets of a Proposition 47 Supporter - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9489\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Regrets of a Proposition 47 Supporter - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"“I had supported Proposition 47, which basically said you wouldn’t prosecute \u2014the crimes were much different at the level of up to $950. 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