SACRAMENTO—The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office has issued a warning to gigantic national retailer Target that it will face fines for reporting so many retail theft incidences.
We have officially entered 2 Timothy 3. Or George Orwell’s 1984.
Think about it – Target reports retail theft to the Sacramento Police hoping for any enforcement, and the city’s attorney gets mad that there are so many “nuisance” calls. Rather than direct her displeasure at criminals, the city attorney is directing it the victim of the crimes, the retailer.
According to the Sacramento Bee, “city officials threatened the Target at 2505 Riverside Blvd. in the past year with an administrative fine.” This is the Target in the Land Park city neighborhood, which is a target for retail theft (pun intended).
The Bee reports,
“The alleged warning issued by Sacramento city officials — and similar actions by other cities across the state — prompted lawmakers to add an amendment to a retail theft bill that would outlaw such threats made by authorities. Pursuing legal actions against businesses for reporting crime brought heavy criticism from law enforcement.”
This is the same City Attorney, the liberal Susana Alcala Wood, who rather than working to improve the degraded quality of life of Sacramento residents and taxpayers, asked a Superior Court to dismiss the Sacramento DA’s lawsuit against the City of Sacramento for failing to abate the homeless crisis in the Capitol city by refusing to enforce existing laws.
District Attorney Thien Ho said Sacramento’s homeless crisis has exploded by more than 250% in just 7 years -– the length of time Darrell Steinberg has been Sacramento Mayor.
Sacramento comes in at #7 in the nation for organized retail theft. Los Angeles ranks at #1 topping the list, with San Francisco and Oakland coming in at #2, the Globe reported in 2023.
As the California Globe has consistently and repeatedly reported, this didn’t happen in a bubble. Proposition 47, passed by voters in 2014, and flagrantly titled “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris, reduced a host of felonies to misdemeanors, including drug crimes, date rape, and all thefts under $950, even for repeat offenders who steal every day. Prop. 47 which also decriminalized drug possession from a felony to a misdemeanor, removed law enforcement’s ability to make an arrest in most circumstances, as well as removing judges’ ability to order drug rehabilitation programs rather than incarceration.
It’s unclear why City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood’s office would allegedly resort to issuing such a warning to any business seeking help from police. Especially when Target is the victim, and likely pays among the highest property taxes of any retailer in the City of Sacramento.
This is the outworking of the Bible’s warning that perilous times are coming in the last days (2 Timothy 3:1—5), and we haven’t seen it all yet. Stay sharp, love Truth and walk with the King.
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