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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - With little than a week to the election, respective polls amusement a bulk of Californians are successful favour of Proposition 36, which would reclassify misdemeanors for definite theft and drug-related crimes arsenic felonies.
10 years ago, voters passed Prop 47, which made definite theft and drug-related crimes misdemeanors. Now, it seems the pendulum whitethorn beryllium swinging successful a antithetic direction.
“It's clip for america to accidental capable is capable and we request accountability and work successful the law,” said Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp.
The proposition would reclassify misdemeanor theft and cause crimes arsenic felonies if a idiosyncratic has been antecedently convicted for the aforesaid transgression for a 3rd time.
“It's communal present for radical to locomotion into stores and leave... it's not morally right, it's not legally close and the crushed that is due to the fact that our laws person been weakened to the constituent wherever it does not let prosecutors and constabulary marque radical accountable,” Smittcamp said.
In addition, it would necessitate those convicted of drug-related crimes to person mandated attraction arsenic portion of their sentence.
But opponents comparison the alteration to the warfare connected drugs successful the 1980's and accidental it would capable prisons with non-violent offenders causing a load to taxpayers.
“It's truly pushing this thought alternatively of attraction we are pushing for cages and we judge that is not close astatine religion successful the vale we privation our backing to beryllium focused connected schools connected our neighborhoods connected our infrastructure and Prop 36 would instrumentality backing from each of those initiatives,” said D'Aungillique Jackson with Faith successful the Valley
Governor Gavin Newsom is besides against the proposition.
"A accelerated way to authorities situation and $100 to $130,000 per twelvemonth the taxpayers volition carnivore with nary existent outcomes being sub-optimal for non-violent possession of drugs? I can't successful bully conscience enactment it".
