California reparations task force calls to ban police from enforcing public urination laws

California's reparations task force wants state lawmakers to ban the 
arrest and prosecution of people who violate laws against public urination 
and other "public disorder offenses," the task force said in its final 
report released last week.

The call to end police enforcement of laws, including those that prohibit 
public urination, is among the official policy recommendations listed in 
the final report, which contains 40 chapters and runs well over 1,000 
pages.

"A signification [sic] proportion of law enforcement contact with the 
public relates to low-level, non-violent offenses. Thus, for example, law 
enforcement is frequently tasked with enforcing public disorder offenses, 
such as illegal camping, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, minor 
trespass, and public urination. Although the subjects of these contacts 
are often experiencing homelessness, a mental health crisis, or both, the 
responding officers typically possess neither training nor expertise in 
working with these vulnerable populations," the report charges.

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"This disconnect often results in the use of excessive and sometimes fatal 
force that falls disproportionately on Black individuals. Given the 
devastating impacts of this kind of over-policing, the Task Force 
recommends that the Legislature prohibit law enforcement from criminally 
enforcing public disorder infractions and other low-level crimes," the 
report continues.

"Instead, a public health and safety institution, without criminal arrest 
or prosecution powers, would enforce prohibitions such as sleeping on the 
sidewalk, fare evasion, and similar transit-related or other public 
disorder violations that criminalize poverty. People arrested or 
criminally prosecuted for these administrative violations should be 
granted a private right of action to sue for damages or should 
automatically receive a damages payout."

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The report stops short of giving an exact dollar amount it wants for 
descendants of slaves who live in the state, though it makes clear the 
task force thinks the dollar amount should be significant. It also 
includes dozens of policy recommendations, including the ban on 
prosecution of "public disorder offenses."

This is not the first time that Californian left-wing voices have said law 
enforcement should turn a blind eye to publicly emptying one's bladder.

Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, whose parents were 
part of the domestic terrorist Weather Underground group, promised during 
his 2019 campaign that he would not prosecute "cases involving quality-of-
life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, 
public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be 
prosecuted. Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted; we have a 
long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness."

Boudin was recalled in June 2022, less than three years after he was 
elected, in a campaign that was marked by public outrage over Boudin's 
soft-on-crime approach.

The reparations task force did not immediately return Fox News Digital's 
request for further clarification on why police officers shouldn't enforce 
public urination laws.

Bob
16 hours ago

So the non law breakers, the law abiding taxpayers, should have to 
tolerate the lawbreakers, live with all the associated negatives of this 
proposal?  So law abiding citizens pay for law enforcement but cannot 
expect protection? 

GodEmperor
14 hours ago

I anticipate vigilante justice will start to go up, since new laws are no 
longer supportive of actual law abiding citizens but criminals. 

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