The Epoch Times SACRAMENTO—As smash and grabs are reportedly up across California, the effort by some lawmakers to “make crime illegal again” by repealing the controversial Proposition 47 failed on March 8.
The party-line vote by the California Public Safety Committee made up of seven assembly members—with five Democrats and two Republicans—ruled against Assembly Bill 1599 proposed by Assemblymen Kevin Kiley, James Gallagher, and Jim Patterson.
“Voters favor ending Prop. 47 by a margin of 2 to 1,” Kiley wrote in a Tweet following the hearing. “Today the ‘Public Safety’ Committee choose to keep it by a vote of 5 to 2. Our government is beyond broken.”
Proposition 47, which was passed by voters in 2014, downgraded some crimes, such as simple drug possession, from felonies to misdemeanors and raised the minimum amount of stolen goods from $400 to $950 for a property theft to be prosecuted as a felony…
