In the midst of a new increase in some criminal activity, most of California voters in another statewide survey announced worry over state crime percentages and said they would uphold reestablishing punishments for specific thefts that a 2014 voting form measure diminished.
78% of voters overviewed in a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies survey co-supported by the news said that crime has risen statewide throughout the last year, and 65% said it has expanded locally. Most additionally said they would uphold changes to Proposition 47, which decreased a few robbery and drug felonies to misdemeanors as a way to reduce incarceration rates and save the state money.
The voting form measure raised the limit for the worth of merchandise taken to set off a crime from $400 to $950, and renamed a few offenses as misdeeds. 59% of study respondents said they would uphold altering Proposition 47 to let certain property crimes be prosecuted again as felonies, while 30% favor leaving the law unchanged.
The numbers follow a flurry of later “smash and-grab” burglaries and rail thefts that pundits of Proposition 47 say is proof that audacious criminal activity is uncontrolled in California and too few are being considered responsible. Property and vicious crime percentages expanded in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco in 2021, however generally to pre-pandemic levels, as per starter information broke down by the unprejudiced Public Policy Institute of California.