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It's no secret retail theft has seen a rise in the last few years. Don't believe us? Talk to a few business owners. Prop. 47’s passage in 2014 raised the dol...lar threshold for theft from $450 to $950 per location, also making it a misdemeanor instead of a felony. As a result, there has been an explosion of retail theft, but a legal inability for law enforcement to effectively deal with or prosecute it. But who’s paying the price? Certainly not the thieves, who are seen in countless store videos simply walking out the front door with arm or cartloads of stolen goods. It’s too dangerous for store personnel to stop them, and the law won’t allow for their arrest anyway. Prop. 20 is designed to help fix this problem. While it will not repeal Prop. 47, it revises the theft threshold by giving the courts the authority to charge a misdemeanor or a felony for serial theft when a person has been convicted twice for stealing up to $950 and arrested a third time for stealing at a value of at least $250. We’ve seen what a lack of consequences brings. By restoring consequences for serial theft, we can stem the tide and restore public confidence and safety.

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