Remember when a whole lot of blue locales legalized shoplifting, either de jure (California) or de facto (a whole bunch of cities that elected Soros-backed prosecutors), and then were shocked, shocked when shoplifting soared?
Ron DeSantis isn’t putting up with that nonsense.
Tuesday Morning Governor Ron DeSantis signed a retail theft bill into law, instituting a severe crackdown on the Sunshine State’s high levels of shoplifting and porch piracy.
“We’re a law and order state. If you do the crime, you do the time,” DeSantis said. He hosted his press conference at a Walgreens in Stuart, telling Floridians they will no longer have to deal with a “Fort Knox” style situation to simply buy toothpaste.
“It’s all under lock and key for basic items. You gotta get a clerk to come and open it and all this stuff just to do basic shopping. That is not something that is good for quality of life,” he said.
HB 549 makes it a third-degree felony to work with five or more people to commit retail theft. Using social media to plan these thefts would be a second-degree felony, and committing a second offense lands offenders a first-degree felony.
The bill follows Florida’s 2022 loss of $5.421 billion in revenue to theft, meaning retailers lost $302.05 in sales per capita. In 2023, destination city Miami ranked in the top 10 areas for the highest rates of retail theft.
The new law also targets porch pirates, or people who steal packages off of other people’s doormats. Stealing someone’s item worth less than $40 is now a first-degree misdemeanor, and doing it again or stealing property worth over $40 becomes a third-degree felony—up to five years in prison.
“Florida has set the blueprint for other states,” Attorney General Ashley Moody said Tuesday, lauding the effort to be “proactive” in fighting crime.
DeSantis has maintained that Florida is the “law and order state”, stressing that this is not the first time he’s signed off on severe penalties for lawbreaking. He passed a comprehensive “Law and Order” legislation package last year, targeting drug-related crimes, human smuggling, child rapists, and sex criminals, and easing the process to sentence offenders to death.
Being soft on crime gets you more crime. This isn’t exactly rocket science. You have to be a Democrat to ignore this most basic of truths.
Texas should look at DeSantis’ crime initiatives, and think about implementing then in places where we’ve fallen behind in keeping people safe, and to keep Soros prosecutors from inflicting higher crime rates on citizens in the name of “reform.”
(Hat tip: The Other McCain.)
Tags: Crime, Democrats, Florida, Ron DeSantis, Social Justice Warriors
Tough on crime is one thing; not sure something that would put you in Small Claims Court if a civil matter ought to be a felony of any class. It’s okay for some crimes to be misdemeanors as long as that’s not an excuse for police and prosecutors to ignore the crime.
If you had your choice, what cabinet position should Trump place him in? I’d like him in one of those lesser cabinet posts that have the ugliest Bureaucracy. Dept of Ed? VA? Commerce?
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I doubt he’d he’d accpet one of those. They’re steps down from Governor of Florida.
The real question is this: What motivates these officials to immure us all in criminality? It ain’t accidental; the whole of the unraveling of public life has been carefully planned. There is no other conclusion that you can reach. If one or two things these assholes did was destructive of the public commons, OK… Accident, coincidence, whatever.
However… Every Goddamn thing they do accrues more and more damage to the daily fabric of our lives. At what point do you begin to open your eyes, do the math, and realize that it’s either organized conspiracy or some rather massive statistically unlikely “accidents”?
Me? I’m leaning towards “someone planned a controlled demolition of America, and is well into their program…”
Not sure how the hell you could reach any other conclusion, from the evidence presented.
I cannot understand people who con done criminal activity such as Boobah. We as a society seem willing to accept rudeness, criminality, and then say well it shouldn’t be treated as something that’s criminal. That’s why small crimes lead to larger crimes, and then to pushing people in front of subways, mob violence, polar bear hunting, mob robberies.
In the Middle East I remember walking through money shoks, literally tables piled high with pounds, Dmarks, rubles, francs, dollars, yens, etc. No one stole, because if you did the next day in the public square you’d see the thief get his hand cut off. I saw thieves who robbed apartments, or rather tried to, hauled off by the police, when I asked my neighbor what was going to happen to the man, my neighbor drew his finger across his neck. Rough but you could walk safely at night unlike the USA.
In Japan crime is almost unknown in the way we know it. Even in Thailand it doesn’t exist as we know it. Only in the corrupt, morally weak West do we tolerate the criminally degenerates and those who nurture them.
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