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To: Saulamanca who wrote (21430)	10/18/2019 10:50:24 AM
From: Saulamanca	2 Recommendations Recommended By Don Green George Statham Respond to of 49160

Well done. He ran in the Chicago marathon afterwards. Good Samaritan disarms man ‘walking around robbing people’ on Chicago train Posted 6:59 pm, October 15, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire Service CHICAGO — A good Samaritan said he jumped into action after realizing another rider was robbing people at gunpoint on a CTA Blue Line train in Chicago before Sunday's marathon. As the train stopped at Cumberland, Jean Paul LaPierre stepped off and asked another commuter why marathoners seemed to be rushing for the doors. “I said, 'This doesn’t seem like the right way,'" LaPierre said. "He said, ‘No, there’s a guy on the train walking around right now robbing people.' That kind of made me mad." He decided to head back onto the train and confront the man entirely on his own. LaPierre grappled with the robber and held him against the side of the train, pulling the gun from his hand in the process, WGN reported. What happened next was caught on camera by a passenger still on the train. Continued

To: Saulamanca who wrote (21430)	11/1/2019 12:07:43 PM
From: Saulamanca	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49160

California's Prop 47 leads to rise in shoplifting, thefts, criminal activity across state Homeless Crisis Published 2 hours ago By Barnini Chakraborty SAN FRANCISCO – In a lighted garage on one of San Francisco's busiest streets, a young man in baggy trousers and messy brown hair pulled down his pants. He had been hiding two pairs of stolen jeans with the tags still on them. He handed them to another man waiting nearby, took some money, pulled up his pants and headed back into another store on Market Street — home to the city's high-end designers and big-chain retail shops. The incident wasn't a one-off. These brazen acts of petty theft and shoplifting are a dangerous and all-too-common consequence of Proposition 47, a referendum passed five years ago that critics say effectively gives shoplifters and addicts the green light to commit crimes as long as the merchandise they steal or the drugs they take are less than $950 in value. The decision to downgrade theft of property valued below the arbitrary figure from felony to misdemeanor, together with selective enforcement that focuses on more “serious” crimes, has resulted in thieves knowing they can brazenly shoplift and merchants knowing the police will not respond to their complaints, say critics. Over in the City by the Bay's famous Tenderloin district, Cassie, a 21-year-old mother of two and a former heroin junkie, told Fox News that when times were tough, she too has stolen from stores. "If my babies need diapers or formula, who is going to get that for me? No one. I have to do it," she said. "They ain't out here arresting people for (shoplifting) and everyone knows it." Proposition 47 is seen by critics as one of California's biggest blunders. Supported by the state Democratic Party and championed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the referendum was passed by a wide margin in 2014. The idea behind it was to reduce certain non-violent felonies to misdemeanors in order to free up resources for cops and prosecutors to focus on violent offenders. Continued