A Preview of California’s Newest Crime-Related Laws for 2024
California returns to the golden days of….the Wild West.
California’s crime-friendly environment has led to numerous Legal Insurrection reports of smash-and-grab robberies, Beverly Hills becoming a ghost town, piracy in Oakland Day, and a constant stream of organized retail theft.
The politicians in Sacramento and the big, Blue cities seem disinclined to tackle the escalating problem, as evidenced by some wild new laws slated for 2024. For example, new rules mandate that law enforcement agencies use the “preferred pronouns” of suspects and set limits on mugshots being used on social media.
A California law taking effect Monday will include preferred pronouns with suspects’ mugshots while also limiting their presence on social media.
California’s AB 994 amended the current law on publishing mugshots, only allowing the mugshots of suspects with violent charges to remain on social media for two weeks. Those posted on social media should also only be posted if “the suspect is a fugitive or an imminent threat to an individual or to public safety and releasing or disseminating the suspect’s image will assist in locating or apprehending the suspect or reducing or eliminating the threat.”
This law will apply retroactively, meaning that agencies will have to delete old mugshots from their social media. However, this law will not apply to the websites or data systems of agencies.
Other new rules make it hard for law-abiding citizens to choose or engage in free speech.
— AB 2282 expands the definition of hate symbols to include any symbols or marks with “the intent to terrorize another person,” such as Nazi symbols and nooses. The bill also speaks to the need to address hate crimes with symbols against certain minority groups.
— SB 700 modifies existing law to make it unlawful for an employer to request information from an applicant relating to the applicant’s prior use of cannabis, or to use prior criminal history of cannabis use.
— AB 1418 bans local California governments from enforcing crime-free housing policies. Such policies prevent landlords from renting to those with prior convictions, but may also call for the eviction of tenants based on arrests or contact with law enforcement.
As I have noted before, California now has a budget deficit of $68 billion, partly due to the loss of tax revenue from former Californians who now reside in a less crime-friendly state. Census numbers show the state had a net outflow of 350,000.
More than 800,000 people moved out of California between 2021 and 2022, according to the US Census Bureau. After subtracting the number of people who moved in, California lost almost 350,000 residents.
Bob Giramma, a 63-year-old business owner, moved away from San Diego and landed in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a town 30 miles southeast of Nashville. Giramma was looking for a quieter and cheaper lifestyle outside of California.
“We weren’t tied to any community, so we looked for a place that was more aligned with the forward path for us,” Giramma told Business Insider. “California was not aligned with that. Tennessee is.”
If the new laws are any indication, 2024 will see the California deficit get even larger as more of the tax base flee the state to where there are sensible lawmakers and the concerns of law-abiding citizens are addressed.
Meanwhile, California returns to the golden days of….the Wild West.
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No room in CA state budget for “reparations” these days.
In lieu of reparations, CA lefties will defund police, abolish cash bail, redefine felonies as misdemeanors, and generally look for ways to provide get out of jail free cards for black looters.
Let them leave as long as they don’t want to turn their new homes into another California. According to a couple of articles I’ve seen, western Idaho, especially the cities, has been running into that. Other places have too.
Note to fleeing Californians: Embrace the culture of the place you’re moving to and don’t bring the “progress”ive attitude with you.
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Happy New Year from California.
Three vehicles were engulfed in flames among the 200 cars participating in the illegal sideshow when officers arrived at the intersection of Sonoma Boulevard and Lemon Street around 2:43 a.m., the Vallejo Police Department said in a statement.
Firefighters extinguished the multiple fires, police said, leaving behind heaps of charred wreckage.
Officers intervened to “disrupt the sideshow,” police said. It was unclear whether there were any arrests made or cars impounded.
“— AB 2282 expands the definition of hate symbols to include any symbols or marks with “the intent to terrorize another person,” such as Nazi symbols and nooses. The bill also speaks to the need to address hate crimes with symbols against certain minority groups.”
I bet some overreacting law enfarcement officer arrests visitors from states that offer “Don’t Tread on Me” or “Sons of the Confederacy” license plates.
Nope. First of all, these symbols are being displayed on the person’s own car, so there’s no offense in the first place and nothing to arrest them for. The existing law specifies that it has to be on someone else’s property; the new law extends that to schools and other public property, but not the displayer’s own property.
Second, in order to charge them there would have to be a prima facie case that their purpose was to terrorize anyone. And to convict them they’d have to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
The work laws don’t sound that bad until you realize that employers can use those questions to screen out individuals that will just waste the company’s money and time by draining resources and contributing nothing (and possibly being interminable employees in certain situations of CA law).
That law only applies to placing these things on someone else’s property, or in a school or other public place, which is already against the law. It makes it a more serious offense, if done for the purpose of terrorizing someone, which means that to convict someone under this law the prosecution would have to prove that motive beyond reasonable doubt. If the accused admits hanging the noose or swastika or whatever, but claims that wasn’t his motive and the jury thinks there’s at least reasonable doubt about it, then they have to acquit under this law, and only convict of simple trespass or whatever the ordinary offense it is to hang anything on someone else’s property without permission.
Hopefully the US, facing a huge budget crisis over interest on the debt, will begin to turn over most social programs to the states who lack the ability to print money and must balance their budgets. This will force voters to confront reality and the giveaways will end.
Why is anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together still living in California?! I can’t get out of New York fast enough myself, and envy those who’ve done so already, but it’s coming.
So what about the coffee shop employees in oakland that mark up the restroom walls with anti-jewish graffiti in support of muzzies? Is that hate crime or does it depend on context?
If it’s not a crime it can’t be a hate crime. Hatred itself isn’t and can’t be a crime.
So far.
No, in this country, so long as the first amendment has not been repealed, hatred can never be a crime.