Soft on crime, hard on retailers! – Is California’s Prop 47 sending out the wrong message?
Soft on crime, hard on retailers! – Is California’s Prop 47 sending out the wrong message?
- October 23, 2024
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and criminology, law and society, Oct. 23, 2024, eurweb.com
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There was a “false” post on Facebook that was fact-checked by Charis Kubrin, a criminology professor at the University of California, Irvine. Her quote as reported in USA Today said, “What Prop 47 did was reclassify some low-level drug and property offenses as misdemeanors rather than felonies – still keeping them as crimes.”
For the full story, please visit https://eurweb.com/2024/smash-and-grab-crimes-rise-in-california-prop-47-hinders-police/.
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