• In California theft of less than $950 is a misdemeanor.
• While misdemeanors can get you a year in jail, in effect they are often unpunished.
• Shoplifting is rampant, especially in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
• Store clerks and security guards often leave shoplifters alone.
• When Los Angeles Rite Aid clerk 36-year-old Miguel Peñaloza tries to stop a man stealing a case of beer, he is shot to death.
• “He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.” − Leonardo da Vinci

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