{"id":59519,"date":"2023-03-18T21:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T01:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/california-democrats-kill-harsher-penalties-for-sex-crimes-favor-stricter-punishments-for-high-value-theft-59519"},"modified":"2023-03-18T21:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T01:01:33","slug":"california-democrats-kill-harsher-penalties-for-sex-crimes-favor-stricter-punishments-for-high-value-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/california-democrats-kill-harsher-penalties-for-sex-crimes-favor-stricter-punishments-for-high-value-theft-59519","title":{"rendered":"California Democrats kill harsher penalties for sex crimes, favor stricter punishments for high-value theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Republican<\/a> Assembly Member Joe Patterson called out Democratic lawmakers for playing &#8220;partisan politics,&#8221; after Democrats shot down a Republican bill which would increase the penalties for sex crimes. Just a day later, they approved a Democrat bill to increase the criminal penalties for theft and property damage of high-value property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m more concerned about protecting the safety of Californians, but it seems like some legislators are more interested in partisan politics.&#8221; Patterson, R-Granite Bay (Placer County) told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On March 15, California Democrats killed <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Assembly Bill 229<\/a> by Patterson to classify domestic violence, human trafficking and other sex crimes as a violent crime in the state. Under current California law, human trafficking is defined as a &#8220;non-serious&#8221; and a &#8220;non-violent&#8221; crime.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Bill 229, titled Violent Felonies, was shot down by the Democrat supermajority with six Democrats voting against Patterson&#8217;s bill and the two Republicans voting in favor.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Public Safety Committee Chairperson\u00a0Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a Democrat, did not respond to Fox News Digital&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/rural-california-community-left-its-own-police-staffing-shortage-brings-end-daytime-patrols\"><strong>RURAL CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY LEFT ON ITS OWN AS POLICE STAFFING SHORTAGE BRINGS END TO DAYTIME PATROLS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A day after voting against Patterson\u2019s bill, the committee considered <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Assembly Bill 484<\/a> by Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills (Los Angeles County), to impose sentence enhancements on people convicted of taking, damaging or destroying property worth more than $275,000.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Bill 484, titled Sentencing enhancements: Property Loss, received bipartisan support with five Democrats and 2 Republicans voting in favor of Gabriel&#8217;s bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doesn\u2019t really make sense to me why Capitol Democrats don\u2019t feel like domestic violence and human trafficking should be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violent crime<\/a>, but damaging property is worthy of harsher penalties.&#8221; Patterson told Fox News Digital. &#8220;Their priorities are inconsistent at best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/california-teacher-exposing-kids-drag-no-different-teaching-shakespeares\"><strong>CALIFORNIA ENGLISH TEACHER CLAIMS EXPOSING KIDS TO DRAG NO DIFFERENT THAN TEACHING SHAKESPEARE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some lawmakers agreed with Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels like a very slippery slope here when we\u2019re talking about enhancements,&#8221; said Assembly Member Liz Ortega, D-Hayward, told the San Francisco Chronicle. &#8220;We can\u2019t say yes to some and no to others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On March 15, Democrat lawmakers advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Assembly Bill 467<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Assembly Bill 304<\/a>, which would make it easier for lawmakers to modify domestic violence restraining orders and provide resources of people who have convicted of domestic violence crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The advancement of the two bills, Assembly Bill 467 and 304, furthered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans&#8217; arguments<\/a> that Democrat lawmakers were being hypocritical regarding their collective effort to kill Patterson&#8217;s bill on domestic violence and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/sex-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sex crimes.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-democrats-kill-harsher-penalties-sex-crimes-favor-stricter-punishments-high-value-theft\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-democrats-kill-harsher-penalties-sex-crimes-favor-stricter-punishments-high-value-theft <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Republican Assembly Member Joe Patterson called out Democratic lawmakers for playing &#8220;partisan politics,&#8221; after Democrats shot down a Republican bill which would increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-59519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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