Here we go again.
The state Legislature sees a clearly unjust law — or set of laws — embedded in the California Constitution.
Think about laws that sent people to prison for three relatively minor offenses such as burglary as legally defined when it involved shoplifting.
Virtually everyone agrees it is a preposterous situation.
But a few people point out some potential pitfalls that could be remedied by inserting language into the ballot measure.
Instead of thoroughly vetting the ballot measure that everyone agrees will address a large swath of injustices and regulatory overreach they bless what they’ve slapped together, place it on the ballot and crank up the political sound bite machine focused 100 percent on the most egregious examples they can muster to garner in order to secure passage.
Chalk this up to a short attention span, lack of thoroughness, of being about as deep in the thinking-it-through department as water in a wading pool for ants.
We all know what happened after Proposition 47 decriminalized a lot of misdemeanors. The surge in shoplifting and gun violations led to today’s world where thieving mobs descend upon stores like locust and solo thugs nonchalantly walking into stores scooping merchandise into bags and walking out the door with little fear of police — if they do catch them — being able to do more than issue them a citation under the law.
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