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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Or the threshold for felony shoplifting is raised to $950 in California which caused even more shoplifting and stores to close in response which actually made places worse off.[/quote]

Not sure why the right wing keeps peddling the fiction that shoplifting under $950 was somehow decriminalized or is no longer enforced.  The only thing that's changed is that $950 is the threshold between misdemeanor and felony.  You can and will still be arrested for stealing less than $950.

[quote]459.5. (a) Notwithstanding Section 459, shoplifting is defined as entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny while that establishment is open during regular business hours, where the value of the property that is taken or intended to be taken does not exceed nine hundred fifty dollars ($950). Any other entry into a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny is burglary. Shoplifting shall be punished as a misdemeanor, except that a person with one or more prior convictions for an offense specified in clause (iv) of subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (e) of Section 667 or for an offense requiring registration pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 290 may be punished pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.

(b) Any act of shoplifting as defined in subdivision (a) shall be charged as shoplifting. No person who is charged with shoplifting may also be charged with burglary or theft of the same property.[/quote]

In California, misdemeanor shoplifting is punishable by

[list]probation,[/list]
[list]fines,[/list]
[list]restitution, and[/list]
[list]up to 6 months in jail.[/list][/quote]

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