Good job Sacramento with the 285/12 numbers but if the

[theking]

...consequence is weak sauce, it's waste of public resources:

Sacramento sheriff details retail theft operation: 285 arrests in one week at 12 stores

Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper on Tuesday announced the results of a weeklong retail theft operation that led to nearly 300 arrests, most of which were misdemeanor citations that failed to meet the felony threshold in California. Called “Operation Bad Elf,” about 50 sheriff’s detectives spent seven days, from Nov. 27 through Sunday, at 12 stores looking to catch suspected retail thieves red-handed and gather more information about who was committing these crimes. The retail theft operation was conducted as the holiday shopping season was in full swing. At a news conference, Cooper called retail theft a “major problem” that has grown since California’s Proposition 47 went into effect November 2014. The state law reclassified certain nonviolent property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors in California. The sheriff said Prop 47 increased the felony threshold from $400 to $950, which means thefts of merchandise totaling less than $950 is considered a misdemeanor in California. Those arrested are cited with a ticket and ordered to appear in court. Cooper said that’s led to 33,000 misdemeanor warrants in the county — many for people who failed to show up in court and face theft charges. “People get tickets,” Cooper told reporters. “They don’t show up for court, because they know nothing’s gonna happen. That’s the mentality: ‘Just to walk in and steal whatever, I’m not gonna be in trouble.’” The sheriff said Prop 47 also allows shoplifters to steal multiple times a day without it being considered a felony, because shoplifting cases and dollar amount totals in retail theft incidents cannot be combined.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article282675938.html#storylink=cpy