But It IS California, So What Do You Expect
by Bob Walsh
Gavin Newsom, the HMFIC of the formerly great state of California, has determined that too many crimes are being committed by people on probation. It makes the system look bad. His solution is very simple. He wants to shorten the maximum time a person can spend on probation from the current five years to two years. That should cut the number of crimes committed by persons on probation by 60%.
I have heard he is also looking at a proposal that would make it illegal for any person in CA to own any personal property worth more than $950 dollars. This is the cutoff for felony theft in CA, so if nobody can own anything worth more than $950 dollars it will totally eliminate felony theft in the state. I THINK this is a bullshit internet story, but you never know in California. It's exceptionally stupid bordering on the insane and totally unworkable, so the legislature just might pass it.
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California May Switch To Shorter Probation Terms For Convicts
LAPPL News Watch
January 13, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to overhaul California’s probation system by greatly reducing the time a convict is under supervised release, but increasing rehabilitation programs at the outset of the probationary period, when they are considered the most effective.
He wants to put what he called “an unprecedented amount of money” into a new effort to provide intensive services to those on the lower end of the criminal justice food chain: those serving probation for misdemeanor crimes.
It’s driven in part by a recent scourge in which car burglars have become so emboldened in California’s urban areas that some San Francisco Bay Area gang members are traveling hundreds of miles to steal from tourists’ vehicles in Los Angeles.
They are the sort of property crimes that no longer merit prison time under the state’s voter-approved criminal justice reforms, but make life miserable for victims.
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