Gov. Gavin Newsom signed retail theft laws to address concerns about California property crime. Prop. 36 on the November ballot imposes tougher penalties.
Email addressGov. Gavin Newsom holds a press conference at a Home Depot in San Jose to sign bills that aim to curb retail theft and address voter concerns about California crime rates on Aug. 16, 2024. Photo by Florence Middleton, CalMattersGov. Gavin Newsom signed bills that aim to make it easier to prosecute retail theft. He’s asking voters to reject a ballot measure that would impose even tougher penalties.
“Gavin Newsom has done nothing about retail theft for five years,” Gallagher said. “He’s taken no leadership on the issue until this year when it became politically expedient for him to do so. “While these bills are an important first step to address the crisis of retail theft, they are just that — a first step,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, a Democrat who supports Prop. 36, said in a written statement. “Fully addressing the rise in retail theft requires acknowledging one of the key underlying causes of those thefts – drug and alcohol addiction. Like the governor, I never want to go back to the era of mass incarceration. But the time to begin the era of mass treatment is now.
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