(06-04-2020, 06:37 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-04-2020, 01:03 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: What would police policy and criminal justice look like if BLM and progressives in government got what they wanted?
We have seen glimpses of it in San Francisco, where theft up to $950 is not considered worthy of police or prosecutor time.
So property crime is off the charts.  Car windows are broken to steal spare change or a phone charger.  The police just hang up if you try to report it.
The District Attorney in San Francisco will not prosecute the homeless, period.
No bail policies offer almost no deterrent to crime.  Back on the street in hours to enjoy the spoils.
We have seen police risk their lives and safety to arrest violent rioters, only to have them immediately set free by the DA.

Given all this, tell us about the reforms that are still needed. 
Police who are only allowed to pursue or arrest someone of their own race? 
No police at all?
BLM wants to patrol the black "opportunity zones" with their own Special Forces trained "Black Opts" officers.  So 2 sets of laws, or maybe different laws every few blocks.
ANTIFA wants to abolish all police, armed forces, business owners and private property - does that include Mom's basement?

The whole bay area has a lot of economic difficulties.
If you don't work for a big tech company, and your family didn't own property there before 1980, good luck. It's becoming like feudal times out there, and elite liberals like Dianne feinstein and Nancy Pelosi can't see it. they know that they're on top of a pile but they have no idea how much misery and displacement the pile is made out of.

And the $950 thing is part of a sentencing reform package that California voters passed by referendum 5 years ago. California voters have always had an appetite for pie in the sky, and promises that don't make sense, and the threshold for a referendum is only 50%. I'm sure they were hoping to have fewer people saddled with felony convictions, make them more employable. The reduction in investigation and prosecution sounds like an unintended consequence.  

To answer your question, no. In fact I'd predict California passes another referendum walking some of this bad referendum back, probably one that lets your first non-violent conviction be a misdemeanor, but the second or third one becomes a felony.