Proposed initiative would amend Proposition 47, the 2014 initiative, by strengthening theft penalties for repeat offenders and incentives for drug addicts to seek treatment.
An undated surveillance photo taken between July 2023 and Jan. 2024 shows two men, suspected of several dozen retail thefts in San Jose, leaving a Nike store with their arms full of unpaid merchandise. Critics who blame California’s 2014 Proposition 47 for runaway drug addiction, retail theft and urban squalor said Thursday they have collected enough signatures to qualify a November ballot measure that would restore penalties for serial thieves and treatment requirements for addicts.
“However, it led to unintended consequences over the past decade — repeat and often organized retail theft, inner-city store closings, and difficulty convincing people to seek drug and mental health treatment — that can only be corrected by the voters at the ballot box with modest amendments to Prop 47.”
Backers included former San Jose and San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, progressive former San Francisco and now Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and then Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, now the state’s governor. Critics included most law enforcement officials like then Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, crime victim advocates and business organizations and then-U.S. Sen.
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