While I often speak about doom and gloom, I try to remain grounded. When I talk about worst case scenarios, I think about hyperinflation and the breakdown of social order. I don’t usually think of something so mundane as counties not prosecuting crimes to save money:
Misdemeanors such as assaults, thefts and burglaries will no longer be prosecuted in Contra Costa County because of budget cuts, the county’s top prosecutor said Tuesday.
District Attorney Robert Kochly also said that beginning May 4, his office will no longer prosecute felony drug cases involving smaller amounts of narcotics. That means anyone caught with less than a gram of methamphetamine or cocaine, less than 0.5 grams of heroin and fewer than five pills of ecstasy, OxyContin or Vicodin won’t be charged.
Need a laptop? Just go to the next county and steal a new one.
