August 27, 2023
LA’s smash-and-grab epidemic: Voters helped break California’s justice system
By Susan Shelley
August 26, 2023 3:00pm
Smash-and-grab robberies are happening in broad daylight at stores throughout California and no one seems to be doing anything to stop them.
Two weeks back, a Nordstrom store in the west San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles was attacked by a flash mob of 30 to 50 masked thieves.
They made off with armloads of designer merchandise valued at an estimated $60,000 to $100,000.
Online video of the robbery showed metal-and-glass display shelves sliding along the floor as the thieves dragged expensive handbags, still attached to anti-theft cables, toward the exits.
The previous week, a gang of thieves helped themselves to about $300,000 worth of goods from a Yves Saint Laurent store in a shopping mall owned by the recent candidate for LA Mayor, Rick Caruso.
And last Sunday, two robbers carrying trash bags ran into a Nike store in East LA and strolled out with shoes and other merchandise.
From store employees to police to prosecutors, the response to these smash-and-grabs seems to be, “Not much I can do about it.”
California’s criminal-justice system is broken and state voters helped to break it.
But voters had help from deceitful activists and politicians who tricked them into thinking they were voting for greater public safety.
more
https://nypost.com/2023/08/26/california-voters-are-to-blame-for-las-crime-epidemic/
