Fresno County District Attorney supports repealing Proposition 47

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Enough is enough. That is the connection Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp rallied down connected Tuesday.

"California has gone mad, really," she said. "The deficiency of accountability and work is affecting everything."

Smittcamp and respective different section instrumentality enforcement officials and country concern radical accidental they are getting down a caller ballot referendum.

The Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act would reverse Proposition 47.

That referendum, passed by California voters successful 2014, recategorized immoderate cause and spot crimes from felonies to lesser misdemeanors.

But successful the 9 years since it passed astatine the ballot box, Smittcamp says transgression has skyrocketed.

"We person much cause addicts than we've ever had, and we person radical committing much theft crimes, much convulsive crimes, much home unit and kid abuse.," she said.

While ABC News has antecedently reported that convulsive transgression has fallen successful Fresno and nationwide, crimes similar brazen smash and grabs hap astir the state.

The relation of Campus Pointe and River Park says retail theft is simply a occupation present successful Fresno.

"It's truthful good organized successful presumption of the theft," the president of Lance Kashian & Co., Sal Gonzales, said. "So, arsenic well-organized arsenic the thieves are, we person to combat it doubly arsenic well. What it means is (an) summation successful dollars for security, technology."

Smittcamp, Gonzales, and different supporters of the caller ballot inaugural accidental their solution would marque communities safer.

Retail thieves with 2 oregon much anterior convictions would look felony charges.

For antecedently convicted cause dealers, their 3rd complaint could mandate addiction treatment.

But Claudia Gonzalez astatine the Root and Rebound re-entry enactment says it is inactive a flawed signifier of punishment.

"We enactment getting radical the services they need," Gonzalez said. "But the happening is, it shouldn't beryllium imposed connected people. Addiction and intelligence wellness should not beryllium criminalized."

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