Newsom noted a 15-year-old Michigan youth is alleged to have used a handgun with three magazines holding 15 bullets each to kill four of his school classmates and wound seven others Friday. who seemingly thinks weapons of war are appropriate" - criticism he first leveled in June when the judge overturned the state's assault weapon ban. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Benitez and upheld California’s ban on ammunition magazines holding more than 10 bullets. District Judge Roger Benitez a day after an 11-member panel of the 9th U.S. Newsom also repeated his criticism of San Diego-based U.S. “These fit squarely within the organized retail crime statutes in the state of California where people are acting in concert with one or more people to exchange or return or sell what they steal.” There are more than enough tools in the California criminal justice toolbox to charge them as such and hold the folks accountable,” Bonta said during a Sacramento Press Club forum. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, who also ran on a reform platform, did not respond to comment requests.īonta, the state's top law enforcement officer, also called for cracking down on organized retail thefts like those before the Thanksgiving holiday. She said the office “has been a leader through the retail theft taskforce, funded by Governor Newsom, in dismantling the networks behind organized retail theft.” “Our office prosecutes cases in which police make arrests this year, we have filed charges in 80% of burglaries referred to us,” she said. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin last week announced felony charges against nine people for a series of thefts, and Bay Area prosecutors announced a joint effort to combat organized retail theft.īoudin's spokeswoman, Rachel Marshall, agreed with Newsom's comments on Proposition 47 and the need for “every player in the legal system and every city agency” to step up. Stack repeat offenders and move to prosecute.” I want to see them stepped up,” said Newsom, formerly San Francisco's mayor. “These are not victimless crimes, and I have no empathy for these criminal elements.”Įven thefts under $950 should be prosecuted as misdemeanors or “stacked” into felony complaints if there are repeat offenses, he said, contending some officials “choose” not to do so. Judges need to hold people accountable for breaking the law,” Newsom said. “If people are breaking in, people stealing your property, they need to be arrested. State crime statistics show property crimes dipped 7.7% last year, led by a nearly 15% drop in larceny thefts and 4% drop in burglaries.īut Newsom said both the recent spate of mass thefts and lack of prosecutions are “unacceptable.” Property crime dropped significantly since then despite the recent high-profile cases, Newsom said. Both defended Proposition 47, a ballot measure approved by California voters in 2014 that reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses from felonies to misdemeanors.
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