Criminal
Dec. 20, 2023
Panelists tell lawmakers retail theft is a problem
There is little agreement about how big the problem is, what caused it, and how to fight it.
Policymakers in Sacramento have been hyper focused on retail theft in recent months. But as an Assembly hearing on Tuesday afternoon showed, there is little agreement about how big the problem is, what caused it and how to fight it.
But one perhaps surprising bit of consensus did emerge during the hearing of the Select Committee on Retail Theft: Proposition 47 is partly to blame -- but not the part of initiative that people talk about most...
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