Due to the woke policies of letting criminals run free, effectively legalizing shoplifting, and marginalizing police, shoplifting is out of control in California. For every problem created by liberals, there is a liberal solution:

The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office warned a chain retail store that it could face a public nuisance charge due to a large number of phone calls placed to police when thieves repeatedly stole from its Land Park location.

This particular store is a Target.

The alleged warning issued by Sacramento city officials — and similar actions by other cities across the state — prompted lawmakers to add an amendment to a retail theft bill that would outlaw such threats made by authorities. Pursuing legal actions against businesses for reporting crime brought heavy criticism from law enforcement.

No doubt this criticism constitutes evidence of systemic racism, for reasons of disparate impact.

The alleged warnings by city officials statewide may affect what crime data is reported as businesses contend with the potential of facing legal action for reporting retail theft…

Threaten to fine people for reporting crime and presto: lower official crime rate. No wonder liberals regard themselves as so much smarter than the law-abiding little people they rule over.

Stores themselves aren’t the only victims:

Land Park Community Association members said the frequent criminal activity at the Target has prompted residents to record instances of crime, according one report by Ch. 13, the Sacramento CBS affiliate. Kristina Rogers, president of the association, also complained in the report about how the crime hitting the business bleeds into the neighborhood.

A rising tide lifts all boats. Moonbattery has the opposite effect.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.

Thanks go to the erstwhile Golden State for warning us what we have to look forward to if we do not pry Democrats from power and reject leftism root and branch:

This represents an inevitable progression from previous scenes of shopping in California:

Shoplifting is effectively legal in California. Smashing through the front of a store so as to loot it is still against the law (until such law is found to have a disparate impact on Persons of Preferred Pigmentation), but by now it hardly matters. By encouraging low-level crime, California has thrown the broken windows theory into reverse and then into overdrive.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

The system of government under moonbat rule is called “anarchotyranny.” In liberal jurisdictions like California, criminals are allowed to run riot to the point that traffic lights cannot be maintained and Senate candidates are subjected to carjackings. Burglary tourism draws criminals from as far away as Chile. Meanwhile,

A California mother was slapped with a fine worth $88,000 after her kids mistakenly collected clams — thinking they were picking up seashells — on the beach without a fishing license.

Charlotte Russ was on a family trip to Pismo Beach, known as the “Clam Capital of the World,” when she said her kids picked up 72 clams from the clamming hotspot during their getaway, according to ABC 7.

Fortunately a judge knocked her fine down to $500. Too bad the 77-year-old Oakland resident who recently defended himself from a burglar might not be so lucky:

Even Los Angeles socialites can get in trouble with the law — just not as much trouble:

The heartbroken mother of the two young boys whom an LA socialite killed in a hit-and-run crash said it felt as if she was “stabbed in the heart” when she learned the murderer’s fate.

Rebecca Grossman was sentenced on Monday to 15 years to life in prison for killing brothers Jacob, 8, and Mark Iskander [11], while prosecutors demanded she receive the maximum sentence of 34 years to life in state prison.

Grossman was racing her car while drunk through a residential neighborhood when she killed the little kids. She will be eligible for parole in 9 years, at which time Jacob and Mark will still be dead. But she did have to pay $47,161.89 in restitution. Good thing she didn’t collect any clams.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.

Meanwhile, as Californians go without traffic lights because they cannot be maintained due to prevailing lawlessness, they also have to go without exercising outdoors due to prevailing excessive government. From San Diego:

A revision to the municipal code made it illegal for groups of four or more people to convene in public spaces for commercial recreational activities without a government stamp of approval.

To be “commercial” does not require money changing hands:

“It’s really tragic that the city would take away the opportunity to come to a class for free, to be outside in a public park, and to enjoy nature,” Amy Baack, a yoga instructor, told San Diego’s KGTV station. And despite what might be the gut reaction here—”Just get a permit!”—it appears the city isn’t making that easy: “We are perfectly willing and ready to get a permit,” Baack added, “if the city would allow it.”

Big Government bureauweenies put you in a round room and command you to pee in the corner.

San Diego says the core issue at stake is safety.

How would we ever be safe if not for the liberals who have driven the rate of violent crime into the stratosphere by promoting black criminality, marginalizing police, letting criminals run free, and disarming law-abiding citizens?

In California as in all parts of the USA where leftists have consolidated control, the system of government is anarchotyranny.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.