If The Lefties Who Voted For Prop 47 Had Used Their Brains Instead Of Their Tribe Mentality, They'd Have Known This Would Be The Result.

When you advocate for a course of action that has easily predictable results, you share some of the responsibility for those results.  Thus, this result is the fault of leftie softheads:

A California sheriff said legislation touted as creating safer neighborhoods and schools is to blame for the state's soaring addiction and homeless rates.

"When we stopped enforcing drug rules and laws," Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told Fox News, "we started seeing a major, major, major increase in what we see now as the severe mental health problems of people that are living on the street"...

The problem stems from Proposition 47, approved by voters nearly a decade ago, Bianco argued.

Also referred to as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, Prop 47 changed crimes like theft of goods under $950 and drug possession from felonies to misdemeanors and ultimately reduced California’s prison population by more than 13,000 inmates. More than half the money saved on prison costs is earmarked for mental health services, substance use disorder treatment and other programs.

"It was astonishing that people did not do the research of what they were voting for, and they trusted the government to be honest to them when they said it was safe schools and safe streets, because everybody's for that," Bianco said. "But we were lied to."

California's fatal overdose rate rose more than 35% between 2014 and 2019, then skyrocketed the following year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

I don't care if you were lied to.  If you bought into the stupid lie, especially because it buttressed your liberal bona fides, you're responsible. 

Bianco said a false narrative of mass incarceration for simple drug possession fueled Prop 47's popularity...

 

The inability to force people into substance abuse treatment has led to a "drastic increase" in mental health issues and drug-related crime, Bianco said.

"We cannot force them into drug rehab," he said. "Now they get a ticket. If they fail to go to court on that ticket, they just get another ticket."

How anyone could have believed anything different would happen is, well, unbelievable.  They were vaping the unicorn farts. 

There's a difference between being wrong and saying you believe something that is obviously not the case.  I can accept wrong, I can't and won't accept willful stupidity.