Fair warning: lots of dubious speculation mixed in with fax along with unnecessary heavy breathing. Having said that, what is reasonably well documented and what is speculation is clearly separated.
In 2014 California passed Proposition 47, which made theft of property valued at less than $950 a misdemeanor offense. This is how it is working out……
You’ve likely seen the videos on social media or the local news: groups of people rushing into a store, grabbing armfuls of merchandise. The brazen crimes are on the rise and CBS13 has learned, in most cases, the crooks get away from authorities.
After searching police reports and arrest records, CBS13 found that while the rate of these grab and dash crimes is on the rise, the rate of arrest is down. We turned to law enforcement and the retail industry for answers. Both blame a California law intended to make “neighborhoods safe.”
In a New Study on Bird Loss, Some Scientists Say Subtlety Is Lost, Too That is code for “they totally misrepresented things to get more publicity.”
Who wants to leave California? Young voters can’t afford housing, and conservatives feel alienated. Okay, so this is a standard news source. But California’s troubles with housing and massive outflows don’t always get that much attention.
The Military Officials Who Knew Saudi Arabia Would Fail
That weird whistleblower’s complaint. “Federal records show that the intelligence community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing.” And there is more here.
Even if the rules were not changed just to allow this complaint to go forward, the complaint itself is not standard.
For those interested in the battles, BazBattles did them better (what ones they covered) here.