Trump misleads about Harris and California crime law

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Trump misleads about Harris and California crime law
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California law lets you “rob a store as long as it’s not more than $950” and “not get charged.” Kamala Harris “did that.”Voters in San Francisco turn in ballots on March 5, 2024. In November, California voters will consider Proposition 36, which will makes changes to the Proposition 47 law voters passed in 2014. Kamala Harris was California ’s attorney general in 2014 when voters approved Proposition 47, a ballot initiative aimed at reducing the state’s overcrowded prison population.

Trump was referring to Proposition 47, a 2014 California voter-approved law,"which makes the theft of stolen property worth less than $950 a misdemeanor charge rather than a felony," Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokesperson said, linking to a June 12 San Francisco ChronicleThat article mentions neither that Harris was involved in creating the law, nor that thefts of less than $950 bring no charges.

Matthews said the underlying idea of Proposition 47 was to make people committing low-level crimes eligible for local jail sentences instead of state prison, which would save taxpayers money.Harris wasn’t involved in creating or passing Proposition 47. As attorney general, she wrote only the proposal’s title and language about it on the state ballot.

Stanford University Law Professor Robert Weisberg, co-director of its Criminal Justice Center, said Harris was"resolutely neutral" on Proposition 47, as"she was on almost all major reform initiatives" while she was attorney general.

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