After progressive San Francisco Mayor London Breed pledged to crack down on the crime surge in the city, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told "America's Newsroom" on Thursday that California law enforcement has been unable to address petty crimes for several years.
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DARRELL ISSA: Right now, law enforcement in California for several years has been unable to arrest people for what’s being called petty crime and we are talking about stealing a shopping cart, going into a grocery store, filling it up and rolling out. That is not enforceable in California. You think you have the homeless problem? Imagine what kind of a homeless problem you have if you tell people they don’t have to pay for their groceries.
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The number of people in jail has gone down but it has gone down because we simply don’t jail people for committing crimes in California.
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