The City of Sacramento, California has a stern warning for retailers. If they don’t stop bothering police with calls about shoplifters, they’re going to be fined. The Target store in Land Park was recently informed that thieves are a protected species. Well, alright then, retailers are about to snarl back. We’ll just take our business elsewhere.
Sacramento threatens Target
The legal department for the City of Sacramento, California, actually threatened to fine Target for being a “public nuisance.”
Their crime is “numerous calls to police after thieves stole from its Land Park location multiple times.” Someone should go to jail for that, prosecutors exclaim.
The controversy started twisting when the Sacramento Bee ran a story based on what “a person with knowledge of the warning who wanted to remain anonymous out of fear they could be retaliated against” told them.
You literally cannot make this up.
The office of Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood reportedly threatened to fine a local Target for reporting theft to the police, labeling the reports as a public nuisance.https://t.co/IfRkTQvL26
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 10, 2024
The specific threat to Target hasn’t been officially confirmed but the issue in general has already been officially acknowledged and addressed.
According to the informant, “Sacramento officials warned they would issue an administrative fine to the Target at 2505 Riverside Boulevard in Land Park.” We don’t have a specific date but it allegedly happened “during the past year.”
A police spokesperson did say something to the press. When asked about “the alleged warning,” the official confirmed the retailers address.

State Lawmakers step in
As soon as state lawmakers in California’s capitol of Sacramento learned what their own city officials were trying to pull, “state lawmakers added an amendment to a retail theft bill, outlawing these types of threats toward businesses from authorities.”
Whether the specific threat to Target is true or not, they hope to prevent such progressive nonsense in the future.
On top of that line item amendment, state leadership including Governor Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and Senator Mike McGuire “are pushing a package with 14 bills that tighten penalties on retail theft offenses.”
Sacramento attorney Susana Wood threatened to fine a local Target store for reporting theft, calling it a public nuisance 🤔
Now we know why Gavin Newsom said California has low crime rates 🤣
Can’t make this sh!t up pic.twitter.com/TaDtrwuOGs
— 🇺🇸Kelli Kay🇺🇸 (@KelliKayK) July 10, 2024
Sacramento has a whole slew of problems caused by the way they defunded the police. At the state level, instead of repealing Proposition 47, which basically decriminalized crime, they decided to pass more laws to “help deal with retail theft crimes.”
“Prop 47, a voter-approved initiative passed in 2014, loosened the penalties for drug and theft crimes in California and has been blamed for California’s rampant theft problems.” A reform measure was approved but “legislators in the Democrat-controlled Capitol in Sacramento began debating legislation that they say would address crime in the state.”
What they ended up with is a “poison pill” nobody can vote for. “Democrats will use it to discourage people from voting to fix Prop 47 in November by arguing that doing so would undo the legislation that combats crime.“