I’ve written about this a few times but Prop 36 is the California ballot initiative designed to rollback an earlier crime-related proposition called Prop. 47. Prop 47 has been blamed by many for creating the crime and public drug abuse problems the Golden State has been experiencing. The passage of Prop. 47 in 2014 basically turned thefts under $950 into misdemeanors. And then on top of doing that, many of those misdemeanors weren’t being charged or even reported. This is, according to many CA law enforcement officials, how you wound up with drug stores being cleaned out by homeless people who walk in with trash bags and walk out with anything they can grab.
For reasons that remain somewhat murky, Gov. Gavin Newsom and many of his fellow Democrats went all out trying to stop Prop. 36 from ever getting on the ballot. Maybe it was just because he really…
