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Thanks to a wise decision made by California voters last month, shoplifters no longer have the run of the state.

Not only did voters reject the reelection of George Soros-backed L.A. County District D.A. George Gascon during last month’s election, but Californians also voted for Proposition 36, aka the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act.

The revolutionary bill rolled back a previous law, Proposition 47, by once again making it a felony for a criminal to, among several other crimes, commit thefts under $950.

In effect since 2014, Proposition 47 led to an upsurge in shoplifting, among other crimes, because the only potential punishment criminals faced was a minor misdemeanor.

The crime surge eventually prompted an effort by mainly Republicans to essentially rewrite Proposition 47 through the introduction of Proposition 36.

But this effort was strongly opposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and an assortment of “progressive groups,” including the ACLU and Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The ACLU accused Proposition 36 of being “part of a broader conservative strategy in California and across the nation to roll back criminal justice reforms aimed at interrupting the cycle of mass incarceration of [b]lack and [b]rown people.”

HRW meanwhile complained that Proposition 36 would “resurrect the long-discredited ‘war on drugs’, funnel money away from evidence-based approaches, and impose harsher penalties for an expansive range of low-level offenses.”

HRW, which is a radically left-wing organization, even complained about the law “mandating drug treatment for individuals convicted of a drug-related offense.” Evidently, this strategy is “not effective in reducing drug use.”

A majority of California voters rightly disagreed, and as a result, California is finally back on track toward normalcy.

Indeed, the law, which took effect on the 18th, is guaranteed to “make things better,” according to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.

“Being safe is not a Republican or a Democrat issue,” he told Fox News. “Being safe is a human issue. Being safe is an American issue. We have a lot of freedoms in this country. We’re the greatest country in the world. And with that comes a big responsibility of keeping the people that are going to victimize us out of our free society.”

True.

“If you have a child and you discipline that child to stop them from doing things, they stop doing it,” he continued. “You raise productive kids. It’s not different with juveniles or adults, when they repeatedly get away with things, human nature is: You push the limit.”

Speaking of which, watch the hilarious reaction below from several shoplifters who evidently didn’t do their homework before going out and committing crimes after Dec. 18th:

Bob Larkin, the vice president of retail customers at the security firm Allied Universal, added in his own statement to Fox News that Proposition 36 “should have a much-needed positive impact on the safety of both residents and businesses in these cities as well as the entire state.”

“Over the past decade, California has encountered a number of challenges, including increases in crime and substance abuse, which have affected safety and the quality of life,” he said. “As the largest security company in the world, with approximately 800,000 employees, including 57,000 employees in the state, Allied Universal team members at customer sites observe the realities of crime in California every day.”

“[California residents] overwhelmingly approved the measure because they were seeing their communities and all businesses statewide severely impacted by the crime crisis that grew exponentially over the last several years,” he added.

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