In cases where those who can afford good representation the prior crimes normally won't be alleged as "3 Strike" priors for enhancement under these laws. These types of prosecutions are overwhelmingly used against people who can't afford representation & are left to rely on public defenders. Prosecutors & judges who are elected to office take advantage of those who can't afford representation to enhance their own reelectability & promotion🤔
Bankers have special banking rules , rights. Corporate lawyers field. Grant's fro government, stimulus, disabilit, unemployment. WOW , baby I need more cow bell ! I gotta fever!
Eddie Ezelle Well, you should set aside some petty cash to pay for remedial grammar lessons for yourself. “Would of bought” is incorrect. For the love of Christ, people, learn “would have bought”! Learn how verbs work. When a person only speaks one language, and most English speakers only speak that one language, he/she ought to speak it with proficiency!
I'm sure prison lobbyists had a large hand in making sure that draconian law was pushed through. They have to make sure there are fresh workers for the multi billion dollar contracts.
In 2019, Steven Bell, then age 55 was released from a CA prison, after serving 19 years. He was released after Goodwill Amnesty, from CA former Democratic Governor, Jerry Brown. In 2012, the law, still on the books, was amended, making it less likely for a non-violent offender to be sentenced under the "3 Strikes Law".
The public got sick and tired of judges that let criminals go with only a slap on the wrist. These criminals who said they are in jail because they got caught stealing for a third time, think about how many times they stole from others in which they did not get caught. With that said...25 yrs too stiff for a non-violent crime, but give them 5 yrs.
@@sunshine3914 We need to have prison reform, not sure what really works. Some may never be able to be reformed. We need to punish people for their actions, protect society and find a good way to help them integrate back into society, helping them to get a GED or a trade skill.
It’s like they round up these small crimes. I feel like it’s cruel. On the other hand, I am 100% ok with pedophiles getting the death penalty on the first offense.
When i was 16 my 5 yr old sister was molested.I grabbed dads deer rifle threw it in my car lit a doobie and went hunting the police beat me to him.3rd conviction 1.5 years.Not justice.
Until you walked in his shoes, lets hold off judging him. The reason this law passed at the ballot box was soft Judges who gave little or no bail to criminals and created a revolving door for them to easily get out only to commit more serious offenses. History is set to repeat itself with California's new States Atty.
When you allow victims to create laws, justice becomes revenge. Borders of justice need to be defined by people who has no immediate vested interest in offered consequences to be fair.
Whos allowing who? How many signatures did that grieving father need to collect. He could have easily turned to the bottle, instead showed bravery in the face of advers ary
@@christopherluchsinger8491 If you draw the borders of justice with high emotional tides, you'll end up mixing retribution with adequate punishment. When I hurt you, you can't always objectively determine the fitting punitive measures or reparations. That's why the laws have to be written by the people who aren't emotionally vested so the laws can stay within the line of acceptable punishment and not slide into excessive retribution to make the victim feel better. A "just" system of law targets the rehabilitation of the offender, without consulting the victim for the extent of the punishment and they do not target punishment alone per-se. Again, laws are designed for correction, not for retribution and they must stay blind to how the victim feels in order to function properly. Judicial system shouldn't be utilized as a preventative measure and a tool for revenge with excessive & overreaching punishments.
Man that was I was thinking every time I was listening to the guy. Clearly a personal vendetta here. So much so that the law is becoming unjust and putting people in misery because of it.
@@FablestoLearn Precisely. That's why the modern law concepts isolate the victims from law-making processes. Victims seek vendetta and retribution, justice on the other hand delivers an adequate punishment or fine, strictly for correcting the behavior that is deemed unacceptable by the society. Justice can't be a tool for retribution. It becomes a hitman and becomes corrupt at that point.
So let me get this straight!! So if you steal $2 dollars batteries and you spent 25 years in prison! How much the tax payers have to pay to keep a thief in prison.a pitty theft charge! This is inconceivable and wrong! What this guy is doing is vengence simply vengence.state attorney or somebody with authority has to change this madness of law
Keep in mind i was the PUBLIC who approved the law, not the legislature. That's why CA is broken. The people bypass the legislature time and time again, ignoring the costs of things. Then the legislature has to enforce the new law they didn't have any influence writing.
9:10 the "erroneous premise" is the failure to see the double jeopardy of using past criminal activity. These people were tried, convicted, and served sentences on prior crimes. With 3-strikes, what it does is convict without trial the same crimes that were already tried AND time served. This is UTTER LEGAL ERROR and should be eliminated from all legislation nationwide.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Double jeopardy is being tried a second time when you have been found not guilty. You can not use past crimes to determine guilt, but you definitely take past crimes into account when sentencing.
Well yeah that and this law should only apply to violent offenders, rapists.. People who pose a real threat to society. Putting someone away for life for petty theft is just ludicrous.
Theft is theft. Whether it's a dollar or 100 dollars. If you have one strike against you and you still commit crimes, you deserve what you get for not learning your lesson.
Don't discount a bike. For a poor person a bicycle is their transportation. A bike thief could be taking somebody's ability to earn a living. For an out of shape person, that bike may be the thing that brings back their health. Sometimes a bike is a big deal.
@@mtbdad2 what’s simple to you might not be so simple to others. Someone that has mental illness or didn’t have parents might make unreasonable actions because it’s all they know. Everyone sins in times of darkness
I don’t blame him personally , he lost a daughter to a couple of thugs that this law might have applied to . Nonetheless , it is STILL a poorly written ‘blanket’ law that doesn’t always apply . Like many other rules and regs in California written by self-serving legislators , and sold to uninformed , apathetic , gullible voters , WE THE PEOPLE , STILL PAY THE PRICE of incarceration , for many lifetimes , of many men and women . REVISE THE THREE STRIKE LAW IN CALIFORNIA !
We have lived in this throw away the key world for some tome now. When I was a kid you would hear better that 100 guilty go free than one innocent man go to prison. That has been tossed in the bin along with our freedoms.
I did *not* vote for 3 strikes (I am a California voter), the information was out of the possible outcomes. This is what happens when you have an unformed electorate who relied on advertisement rather reading the proposition and various (pro/con) media for deciding their vote. It is also why Gray Davis was recalled (uniformed people) he was not a great Governor but better than Pete Wilson IMO. We as a society are dullards and are easily convinced of nonsense if often repeated (Goebbels).
Too many in these comments refuse to acknowledge the fact that this is accounting for CUMULATIVE offenses. No one got 25 years for stealing 2 double a batteries alone.
On what are you basing this assertion on? Perhaps the commentators are well aware of the cumulative nature of the law but, like myself, are confounded by just how specious the reasoning behind it is and by just how asinine one must be to arbitrarily select THREE as the upper limit to the number of felony convictions one may have before being put away for life upon a fourth conviction! It's arbitrary and absurd.
I lost all sympathy for the criminal who stole a bike and was tried, convicted and awaiting sentencing but still felt he needed to corrected the reporter by saying 'allegedly'...
Too bad. YOU decided to steal. Pay the consequences of your actions. YOU have been in jail before. Its obvious this dude did NOT learn his lesson. I imagine this dude is still in prison for other crimes. These are habitual criminals who are a problem to society. Thus, send them to an island and let them fight for survival.
Mike Reynolds is a sad sad man. Unable to see that not all people that commit crimes are bad people. Stealing because you are starving isn't a crime in my book. For profit prisons however IS a crime.
After watching the news very closely, I have seen judges, police officers, lawyers, bankers and politicians etc, who have committed terrible crimes. The three strike law applies to them. But stealing a single slice of pizza or cookies is just so painfully sad. How can they prosecute someone for being so desperately hungry?!?! I would have bought it for the hungry person without a seconds thought which I do all the time anyway. These disgusting, self righteous law makers are the real criminals and it's no wonder that there is no actual justice in the USA.
In the 60s and 70s, it was not uncommon for a murderer to get parole after 7 to 10 years. Now, we are sentencing people to 35 years plus because stealing some cookies was their third strike.
“If all you’re doing is committing crimes, you’re no better than a parasite”. Wow i bet Davis had to make a lot of apologetic calls to his friends in Washington. “No offense guys”.
Well Jason what do you think would happen if you lost your nice cushy job and there wasn't a replacement for your nice cushy job gamma you'd steal to survive, so don't get up there on your little moral high horse looking down on these unfortunate people
That is ridiculous that people are put in jail to fill private prison contracts that say the prisons must be filled to 89-95% capacity ,varying prison to prison, to avoid breach of contract litigations. 25 yrs to life for the theft of 2 double a batteries or a slice of pizza without violence is f-ing crazy.
The law doesn't apply to the filthy rich for accumulated stealing they seem to be "legal" . I would go as far to say I doubt there would be a single blue collar criminal in California's prison that's sentenced under this inhumane law.
They deserve the 25 to life. They act as the law doesn't apply to them. They consistently stole and gave the law the middle finger. Lock them up and keep them locked up.
A so-called "non-violent offender" burglar/robber who is confronted by a victim will likely become violent if the alternative is getting caught. Allowing burglars to continue a lifetime of burglary pretty much guarantees more violence against victims.
The problem with harsher and harsher penalties in order to deter crime is that people generally don’t think they are going to get caught when they decide to commit a crime. So harsh penalties don’t seem to have much of an impact on crime rates.
This poor buy barely knews how to count . He obviously has a problem with processing what is happening around him. He should not be in jail anymore. He is only a danger to himself.
I think that prosecutor should spend a week in jail before he pushes for them long sentences I bet he'd have a whole different opinion on those long sentences
I'd say you draw the line when the crime isn't violent. I would understand completely if the three strike law had to do with violent crimes. But burglary? I am not say burglary is okay, because it isn't. At all. But If that's all the person did, why apply the three strikes law to that person? Monitor them, sure. But to use that against them for a three strike case? It's so stupid. I've lived in California my entire life, and if the goal was safety, it sure as heck didn't accomplish that. If the law was just vindictive, well, I guess it accomplished that, but I don't think our laws should be used for that. We call it the Department of CORRECTIONS and REHABILITATION. Not The Department of Punishment. Corrections and Rehabilitation should be there to correct the behavior at hand, and to rehabilitate (if possible) the offender. If that's not possible, okay. If the crime is so heinous the person needs to be locked up for the benefit of society, I'm perfectly okay with that. But I think State and Federal law shouldn't be about punishment. It should be about trying to change behaviors in people. That's what Western Europe is doing, and it seems to be working pretty damn well.
I hate thieves. But 35 years is a bit much for a bike! If I was a victim of such an act I would be happy if he got 6 solid months per bike and even that is a bit extreme!
@6:42 This sounds like an argument for the founding of the department of Pre-Crime. Can we see the Minority Report on this concept? P.S. The existence of time is not a function of human crafting and gifting. Sure he is vengeful. No Doubt about it. His vendetta has overstepped.
Too bad this doesn't apply to Politicians or Bankers....
Doginu definitely
Because politicians and bankers don't steal bicycles or slices of pizza. They understand it's not worth it.
Doginu ...Or insurance companies and dentists.
@@sfbluestar they steal on a bigger level. They steal money of the workers.
I know. So freaking unfair
3 strikes should be for violent offenders only.
Ya, get into 3 fights in your life and go to prison for 25 years
Did you know you can get all 3 of the strikes in the first fight.
@@cristinafultz4572 I understood what he meant. Why didn't you?
Yes
@@cristinafultz4572 explain please
He is a violent offender
But we have rich people that break laws and walk way ...the System sucks
Not just rich people but people who can afford an expensive attorney.
Be a smarter thief lol
In cases where those who can afford good representation the prior crimes normally won't be alleged as "3 Strike" priors for enhancement under these laws. These types of prosecutions are overwhelmingly used against people who can't afford representation & are left to rely on public defenders. Prosecutors & judges who are elected to office take advantage of those who can't afford representation to enhance their own reelectability & promotion🤔
Plenty of room in prisons for petty criminals to do hard time, but they can never find a space for corrupt bankers. Why is that?
Bankers have special banking rules , rights.
Corporate lawyers field.
Grant's fro government, stimulus, disabilit, unemployment. WOW ,
baby I need more cow bell ! I gotta fever!
FYI: Steven Bell ended up serving 19 years. They have since changed the three strikes law to limit it to violent crimes
😲
Still way too high.
@@Brett_S_420 Ya I don't see a good reason for more than 1 year
That’s ridiculous. Glad they changed it
The question is: Has he changed his ways? If he is still a petty thief, obviously 19 years wasn’t enough. If he is no longer a thief, it worked.
The last line by Bell was so good.
"We will be moving."
Good idea!
He’ll be moving to a state which allows him to continue his petty theft crime spree. No problem until he breaks into your hows or takes your bike.
@@mtbdad2 if it’s New York or Massachusetts or Illinois, he’ll be just fine. Liberals loved to be robbed. By criminals and the politicians they elect.
We will be moving, so I can steal again there! People like that do not change!!!
@@b-genspinster7895 And yet southern hovels like South Carolina and Arkansas have much higher violent crime rates.
@@putler965 well. Those places are besieged with Californians, New Yorkers and other implants from blue states so there you go.
I would of bought the guys batteries and pizza to save tax payers 17.5 million.
Why does it cost so much to house an inmate
Eddie Ezelle Well, you should set aside some petty cash to pay for remedial grammar lessons for yourself. “Would of bought” is incorrect. For the love of Christ, people, learn “would have bought”! Learn how verbs work. When a person only speaks one language, and most English speakers only speak that one language, he/she ought to speak it with proficiency!
@@laceyunderall22 Perhaps, you, Lacey, could save up for the manners your mother should *have* taught you.
@@laceyunderall22 y does ye kare aboot gramma so mushy?
i have a feeling these guys stole more over the years than what they got caught doing
I'm sure prison lobbyists had a large hand in making sure that draconian law was pushed through. They have to make sure there are fresh workers for the multi billion dollar contracts.
$500K per year, per prisoner. Imagine that $$$ going to schools.
I think it’s more like 60k a year. But still, your point stands regardless.
The actual number is around 32-38,000 per year ! The 500k number is what it costs to take care of an individual for 25 years
Mr. Mark Comprehension Skills are not your friend.
Money doesn’t improve schools in California
Schools do get blackgold; the criminal justice want their share ++$25000 per inmate.
In 2019, Steven Bell, then age 55 was released from a CA prison, after serving 19 years. He was released after Goodwill Amnesty, from CA former Democratic Governor, Jerry Brown. In 2012, the law, still on the books, was amended, making it less likely for a non-violent offender to be sentenced under the "3 Strikes Law".
These politicians should be locked up for imposing such draconian sentences.
The public got sick and tired of judges that let criminals go with only a slap on the wrist. These criminals who said they are in jail because they got caught stealing for a third time, think about how many times they stole from others in which they did not get caught. With that said...25 yrs too stiff for a non-violent crime, but give them 5 yrs.
@Scott Laux It is very common for criminals to escalate in their behaviors, they need to serve some time to encourage them not to do it again.
William Kerner - only thing is, if they’re behind bars for too long, they’re not able to adapt to the outside. Especially in such a fast paced world.
@@sunshine3914 We need to have prison reform, not sure what really works. Some may never be able to be reformed. We need to punish people for their actions, protect society and find a good way to help them integrate back into society, helping them to get a GED or a trade skill.
@Scott Laux your dense...its for all the crime he committed before the bike.
@@sunshine3914 so hang the dipshits!
It’s like they round up these small crimes. I feel like it’s cruel. On the other hand, I am 100% ok with pedophiles getting the death penalty on the first offense.
When i was 16 my 5 yr old sister was molested.I grabbed dads deer rifle threw it in my car lit a doobie and went hunting the police beat me to him.3rd conviction 1.5 years.Not justice.
Mandatory castration and electric-shock 'treatment' for undisputed cases of pedophilia. People would be amazed at how fast cases would decline.
Bitter old man wants everyone to serve his daughter's killer's sentence
Exactly what I thought. Next we should put in prison everyone that born out of poverty because they are more likely to become criminals wtf..
Until you walked in his shoes, lets hold off judging him.
The reason this law passed at the ballot box was soft Judges who gave little or no bail to criminals and created a revolving door for them to easily get out only to commit more serious offenses.
History is set to repeat itself with California's new States Atty.
Exactly.
He’s not only bitter, he is also white and rich. That combination is dangerous.
@@holaforistas
Your comment reveals a very sick mindset. Seek help.
When you allow victims to create laws, justice becomes revenge. Borders of justice need to be defined by people who has no immediate vested interest in offered consequences to be fair.
Whos allowing who?
How many signatures did that grieving father need to collect.
He could have easily turned to the bottle, instead showed bravery in the face of advers ary
@@christopherluchsinger8491 If you draw the borders of justice with high emotional tides, you'll end up mixing retribution with adequate punishment.
When I hurt you, you can't always objectively determine the fitting punitive measures or reparations. That's why the laws have to be written by the people who aren't emotionally vested so the laws can stay within the line of acceptable punishment and not slide into excessive retribution to make the victim feel better.
A "just" system of law targets the rehabilitation of the offender, without consulting the victim for the extent of the punishment and they do not target punishment alone per-se.
Again, laws are designed for correction, not for retribution and they must stay blind to how the victim feels in order to function properly. Judicial system shouldn't be utilized as a preventative measure and a tool for revenge with excessive & overreaching punishments.
That's not this country's way of doing things.
Man that was I was thinking every time I was listening to the guy. Clearly a personal vendetta here. So much so that the law is becoming unjust and putting people in misery because of it.
@@FablestoLearn Precisely. That's why the modern law concepts isolate the victims from law-making processes.
Victims seek vendetta and retribution, justice on the other hand delivers an adequate punishment or fine, strictly for correcting the behavior that is deemed unacceptable by the society.
Justice can't be a tool for retribution. It becomes a hitman and becomes corrupt at that point.
So let me get this straight!! So if you steal $2 dollars batteries and you spent 25 years in prison! How much the tax payers have to pay to keep a thief in prison.a pitty theft charge! This is inconceivable and wrong! What this guy is doing is vengence simply vengence.state attorney or somebody with authority has to change this madness of law
These public servants are insane with power.
Keep in mind i was the PUBLIC who approved the law, not the legislature. That's why CA is broken. The people bypass the legislature time and time again, ignoring the costs of things. Then the legislature has to enforce the new law they didn't have any influence writing.
9:10 the "erroneous premise" is the failure to see the double jeopardy of using past criminal activity. These people were tried, convicted, and served sentences on prior crimes. With 3-strikes, what it does is convict without trial the same crimes that were already tried AND time served. This is UTTER LEGAL ERROR and should be eliminated from all legislation nationwide.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Double jeopardy is being tried a second time when you have been found not guilty. You can not use past crimes to determine guilt, but you definitely take past crimes into account when sentencing.
I just looked him up and he ended up getting sentenced to 35 years to life but was released just a few months ago after serving 19 years.
Damn
Bradley Smith so petty. Only in america
He should have stolen a car instead at least he might of got away but it was never gona end well on a bike
The problem is that the judges and prosecutors should have more discretion in the application and limit it to appropriate major crimes.
Well yeah that and this law should only apply to violent offenders, rapists.. People who pose a real threat to society. Putting someone away for life for petty theft is just ludicrous.
Theft is theft. Whether it's a dollar or 100 dollars. If you have one strike against you and you still commit crimes, you deserve what you get for not learning your lesson.
Much respect to those two jurors of conscience!
"Even if its stealing a bicycle". Stealing is stealing, no matter what ever the value is. Three strikes is two to many.
Agree, I see it as VERY basic, don’t steal, don’t be a thief, don’t go to jail. How is this not the simplest straight forward thing imaginable? Omg.
Don't discount a bike. For a poor person a bicycle is their transportation. A bike thief could be taking somebody's ability to earn a living. For an out of shape person, that bike may be the thing that brings back their health. Sometimes a bike is a big deal.
@@mtbdad2 what’s simple to you might not be so simple to others. Someone that has mental illness or didn’t have parents might make unreasonable actions because it’s all they know. Everyone sins in times of darkness
"What are you going to do when you get out?" "We'll be moving." Lmaooooo!!!!!
i cant help but think the wedding photographer who wrote the law is more about vengeance then rightfulness
Yes
But can you blame him?
@@gigig6021 no I don't at all
I don’t blame him personally , he lost a daughter to a couple of thugs that this law might have applied to . Nonetheless , it is STILL a poorly written ‘blanket’ law that doesn’t always apply . Like many other rules and regs in California written by self-serving legislators , and sold to
uninformed , apathetic , gullible voters , WE THE PEOPLE , STILL PAY THE PRICE of incarceration , for many lifetimes , of many men and
women . REVISE THE THREE STRIKE LAW IN CALIFORNIA !
We have lived in this throw away the key world for some tome now. When I was a kid you would hear better that 100 guilty go free than one innocent man go to prison. That has been tossed in the bin along with our freedoms.
i myself thought it was 3 felonies got you life not a misdemeanor
Misdemeanor turn to felony under this law.
California has a law that for a second misdemeanor for stealing automatically escalates the second time charge from a misdemeanor to a felony.
I did *not* vote for 3 strikes (I am a California voter), the information was out of the possible outcomes. This is what happens when you have an unformed electorate who relied on advertisement rather reading the proposition and various (pro/con) media for deciding their vote. It is also why Gray Davis was recalled (uniformed people) he was not a great Governor but better than Pete Wilson IMO.
We as a society are dullards and are easily convinced of nonsense if often repeated (Goebbels).
This is why you pay educated lawmakers to write laws.
Just like people buy into the libtarded bs too.
Xeronimo unformed, huh?
Vengeance is blinding this father.
Too many in these comments refuse to acknowledge the fact that this is accounting for CUMULATIVE offenses. No one got 25 years for stealing 2 double a batteries alone.
On what are you basing this assertion on? Perhaps the commentators are well aware of the cumulative nature of the law but, like myself, are confounded by just how specious the reasoning behind it is and by just how asinine one must be to arbitrarily select THREE as the upper limit to the number of felony convictions one may have before being put away for life upon a fourth conviction! It's arbitrary and absurd.
Serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, yes. But bike theft? Chocolate? Pizza? Ridiculous!
I lost all sympathy for the criminal who stole a bike and was tried, convicted and awaiting sentencing but still felt he needed to corrected the reporter by saying 'allegedly'...
Its since been changed to violent offenders... California voters threw out Gray Davis in a recall l. This has to be a episode from the early 2000s.
Too bad. YOU decided to steal. Pay the consequences of your actions. YOU have been in jail before. Its obvious this dude did NOT learn his lesson. I imagine this dude is still in prison for other crimes. These are habitual criminals who are a problem to society. Thus, send them to an island and let them fight for survival.
Laws are passed without common sense. So sense at all.
Julie Henderson since when does common sense come into or judicial system let alone our government
It’s all about money
Lol. Glad these people are out of the general public.
Mike Reynolds is a sad sad man. Unable to see that not all people that commit crimes are bad people. Stealing because you are starving isn't a crime in my book. For profit prisons however IS a crime.
After watching the news very closely, I have seen judges, police officers, lawyers, bankers and politicians etc, who have committed terrible crimes. The three strike law applies to them. But stealing a single slice of pizza or cookies is just so painfully sad. How can they prosecute someone for being so desperately hungry?!?! I would have bought it for the hungry person without a seconds thought which I do all the time anyway. These disgusting, self righteous law makers are the real criminals and it's no wonder that there is no actual justice in the USA.
13:09 we will be moving. I’m crying 😂
Please dont move to Washington.
Don’t steal and you don’t have to worry about going to jail.
I get he lost his daughter but it sounds like he's carrying feelings for everybody over it
It’s all about money and the privatization of the prison system
No it isn't. It is about people taking other people's property and getting punished for it.
Im truly sorry this man lost his daughter,I lost a sister but this is unjust and economically unsound.
There could be a better way to deal with criminal behaviour. What is the perfect society?
It's a bad law.
Petty theft is a revolving door. Once criminals realize that they can get away with it over and over, they graduate to more serious crime.
I didn't know we had video footage from the caveman days. Amazing!
The FIRST time in jail, is the ONLY time you need, to know it’s the LAST time you want to be there...
Wrong set of people getting the 25 years...
that law clearly works. not sure why a bunch of you want felons stealing batteries.
How is this law not a violation of constitution?
That was rich... What you going to do when you got released from the prison..? I'm moving out from California....
All those tax dollars spent for a bicycle thief.
In the 60s and 70s, it was not uncommon for a murderer to get parole after 7 to 10 years. Now, we are sentencing people to 35 years plus because stealing some cookies was their third strike.
8:07
Right!!
What's so difficult for people to understand?!
The angry wedding photographer needs to sit down a minute
What happen to human rights 25 years for pizza and a bike
This is absolutely ridiculous! Put a thief in jail for life! He NOT AN ARMED ROBBER! He’s NOT BREAKING INTO HOMES TERRORIZING
Ummm, while I agree that this three strikes stuff is stupid, the guy pinched for stealing the bike was actually breaking into peoples homes...
Remembered when San Francisco has crimes rate dropped? So long ago. Not today
“If all you’re doing is committing crimes, you’re no better than a parasite”. Wow i bet Davis had to make a lot of apologetic calls to his friends in Washington. “No offense guys”.
Well, I see no problem with this. Don't steal. Pretty simple!
Now you’re having to shell out $500,000 a year for 35 years to life for a guy who stole a bicycle. Sweet!
@@sunshine3914 Exactly. These numbers numb nuts who think this is okay are the problem.
@@sunshine3914 Dude! It was for all the crime beforehand. The bike was just the last straw!
Well Jason what do you think would happen if you lost your nice cushy job and there wasn't a replacement for your nice cushy job gamma you'd steal to survive, so don't get up there on your little moral high horse looking down on these unfortunate people
That is ridiculous that people are put in jail to fill private prison contracts that say the prisons must be filled to 89-95% capacity ,varying prison to prison, to avoid breach of contract litigations. 25 yrs to life for the theft of 2 double a batteries or a slice of pizza without violence is f-ing crazy.
Stop stealing from people. Problem solved.
I'm pretty liberal but breaking into somebodies house is a recipe for disaster and violence
The US judicial system should improve society with social solutions not destroy lives for profits.
MilesBellas ... are you an anti-American Democrat?
The law doesn't apply to the filthy rich for accumulated stealing they seem to be "legal" . I would go as far to say I doubt there would be a single blue collar criminal in California's prison that's sentenced under this inhumane law.
They deserve the 25 to life. They act as the law doesn't apply to them. They consistently stole and gave the law the middle finger. Lock them up and keep them locked up.
25 years for stealing two AA batteries. God bless your soul.
Ah, the 1990s, when even Democrats were opposed to crime. I miss the good old days.
How about lesson learned from first two offenses committed and do not commit a third or fourth.
A so-called "non-violent offender" burglar/robber who is confronted by a victim will likely become violent if the alternative is getting caught. Allowing burglars to continue a lifetime of burglary pretty much guarantees more violence against victims.
This three strike guy reminds me of Rush limbaugh
It's all about money !!! PERIOD !!!
GreenEyes 1226 exactly
That father is filled with hate and he's the typical person that they have on the parole board.
It’s all about money
Im ok with three strikes...but come on. Its gotta be reserved for violent offenders. Not petty thieves
The problem with harsher and harsher penalties in order to deter crime is that people generally don’t think they are going to get caught when they decide to commit a crime. So harsh penalties don’t seem to have much of an impact on crime rates.
This poor buy barely knews how to count . He obviously has a problem with processing what is happening around him. He should not be in jail anymore. He is only a danger to himself.
I think that prosecutor should spend a week in jail before he pushes for them long sentences I bet he'd have a whole different opinion on those long sentences
What a chilling ending
Oh, I feel sooooo sorry for this life-long thief🙄
That Gov of CA looks like a shady preacher. " I say, reach deep into your pockets! But not too deep cause thats were the change lies"
He's got a lot of skeletons in his closet
😂😂😂😂😂
Dude was recalled & thrown out of office after he was elected the second time. Then Arnold, The Terminator, stepped in.
Where do you draw the line? Some guys should be incarcerated.
These boys had a hard childhood, they did not get to go to Disneyand
I'd say you draw the line when the crime isn't violent. I would understand completely if the three strike law had to do with violent crimes. But burglary? I am not say burglary is okay, because it isn't. At all. But If that's all the person did, why apply the three strikes law to that person? Monitor them, sure. But to use that against them for a three strike case? It's so stupid. I've lived in California my entire life, and if the goal was safety, it sure as heck didn't accomplish that. If the law was just vindictive, well, I guess it accomplished that, but I don't think our laws should be used for that. We call it the Department of CORRECTIONS and REHABILITATION. Not The Department of Punishment. Corrections and Rehabilitation should be there to correct the behavior at hand, and to rehabilitate (if possible) the offender. If that's not possible, okay. If the crime is so heinous the person needs to be locked up for the benefit of society, I'm perfectly okay with that. But I think State and Federal law shouldn't be about punishment. It should be about trying to change behaviors in people. That's what Western Europe is doing, and it seems to be working pretty damn well.
Ethan Gates Well said
I hate thieves. But 35 years is a bit much for a bike! If I was a victim of such an act I would be happy if he got 6 solid months per bike and even that is a bit extreme!
This punishment is way out of proportion.
This is not right
4:00. It wasn’t a pizza. It was a slice of pizza. That’s 25 mandatory in my household. I love my pizza.
Lesson learned don't steal period
Crazy! Im glad I live in Europe.
I dont agree with the current 3 strike law. This needs to be fixed
@6:42 This sounds like an argument for the founding of the department of Pre-Crime. Can we see the Minority Report on this concept? P.S. The existence of time is not a function of human crafting and gifting. Sure he is vengeful. No Doubt about it. His vendetta has overstepped.
As a felon ur sentence never truly ends and that is a clear violation of our constitution
The law in America is broken
'Not a New York minute' . . . great phrasology ! MUST do some time !
"We will be moving"!😂
"We will be moving". lol
How can people condone such spitefulness?
Oh wait I know, self gain
By all means let’s keep giving repeat offenders countless “ redo’s “ as we all have endless time and money for handling these losers .
We need this law for law enforcement and politicians.
Boy, have things changed in CA since this story...
@John Kyle He was acquitted....by a jury. In court and with a judge present. You're not Fox News(?) gaslighting...are you?
this law has merits but has a huge flaw in itself
This law needs to be changed or amended!
Do you think people who’d been hurt like the guy making laws whose daughter died is in the right mind to make laws
The only thing he is doing is vengence.simple as that.vengence. that's not justice . that's vengence
Horrifying and pitiful. This has got to be one of the most ignorant laws in the world.
It's not a new law. It's been that way in texas for a long time