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[quote=Anonymous]I live in a coastal town in CA with a sizable homeless population. The problem in the last few years isn't the mentally ill homeless it is the increasing numbers of vagrants/ drug addicts that are destroying the quality of life with non-stop petty crime. CA was under pressure from the courts to reduce the prison population. CA voters passed proposition 47 which made many crimes misdemeanors instead of felonies. The problem is that when a drug addict would steal and get caught they would often be offered a deal to go into treatment in order to get their crime reduced to a misdemeanor. Now any property crime under $950 is s misdemeanor. So someone can steal one day from a grocery store, get arrested and released the same day because it is a misdemeanor. The next few day they can steal from cars over and over again because it isn't a cumulative total it is each incident. Then they can steal packages from porches, etc. my neighbors don't even report it when packages get stolen of their car is broken into because police no longer care. It takes too long to book the criminals for a misdemeanor.

And the other issue is that people are coming for drug rehab centers in CA that are paid for by the affordable care act. When they are sitting watching TV or are online googling drug rehab centers, ads for paid drug rehab centers appear. Once you are in CA -it doesn't matter that you just moved- you become eligible for expanded health benefits thanks to the affordable care act and CA taxpayers. So drug addicts come to CA for rehab, they start using again, they get kicked out of rehab and become homeless.[/quote]

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