California voters decided in November that they wanted to celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year by locking up criminals who are finding out the hard way that their get-out-of-jail-free cards have been revoked.
California voters defied the pro-criminal sympathies of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and other leading state Democrats to pass Proposition 36, which, among other things, allowed prosecutors once again to hit repeat shoplifters and thieves with felony charges and repealed the terrible California law that made shoplifting a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor if the criminal took under $950 in merchandise in each shoplifting spree.
This has led to some wonderful realizations from the career criminals now getting caught up in the new law, which went into effect on Dec. 18. One such interaction between criminals was posted by the Seal Beach Police Department, showing a conversation between two women who had just allegedly stolen $237 worth of goods from Kohl’s and $600 worth of goods at Ulta Beauty. “It’s a felony?” the first woman asked. Her friend filled her in on the news: “B****, new laws. Stealing is a felony.”