George Skelton: After smash-and-grab thefts across California, is it time to reconsider Proposition 47?
by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times
Dec 10, 2021
3 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For many, the lead villain in the rash of smash-and-grab thefts plaguing California is a sentencing reduction ballot measure that voters approved overwhelmingly seven years ago.
"I think it was the biggest con job in California history," says Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, a former Republican who intends to run for state attorney general next year as an independent.
"Criminals have been laughing at us. ... There's a clear belief — and very large reality — that there's no consequences any more to theft. ... You tell everybody we're not
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