It appears California Governor Gavin Newsom is either incredibly stupid or willfully ignorant of the consequences of his action and/or the actions of his fellow travelers in the California legislature. The more the state government tightens its grip on California residents and business and weakens its institutions, the worse things get. The worse things get, the more California comes to resemble a Third World nation, something that ‘shocks’ the governor.
Californians have recently been treated to images of mountains of trash along the Union Pacific rail line in Los Angeles. CBS-LA reporter John Schreiber went to the site and took video of looted packages from Amazon and UPS, prescription drugs, “unused Covid tests, fishing lures, EpiPens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains.”Yup, making crimes less onerous which in turn lessens the penalties for said crimes will reduce crime...at least on paper. In reality, not punishing crime encourages more crime, including more serious crimes. So is it any surprise crime has been skyrocketing in the Pyrite State?
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“California Gov. Gavin Newsom showed up Thursday with a clean-up crew and vowed action.It is unacceptable. But this has been going on for a long time, with little or no reported response from local or state government.
And the Democrat, dressed in a T-shirt, baseball cap and coronavirus mask, pitched in himself, joining crew members from the state Department of Transportation in grabbing handfuls of debris and placing the trash in bags or in a dumpster.
“What has happened on this stretch of the Union Pacific Railroad is unacceptable,” Newsom told reporters. He said the area looked like a scene from “a Third World country,” according to FOX 11 of Los Angeles.
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But rather than doubling down on the source of these crimes, Fox 11 LA reports Newsom praised Proposition 47, Proposition 57 and AB 109, claiming they had helped reduce crime in the state: Proposition 47, which downgraded some felonies to misdemeanors; Proposition 57, which reduced prison sentences; and Assembly Bill 109, which shifted detainees from state prisons to local jails, FOX 26 of Fresno reported.