Crime Increasing Under Prop 47:  Since California voters adopted Proposition 47, which downgraded thefts of $950 or less from felonies to misdemeanors, there has been an increase in shoplifting across the state.  Barnini Chakraborty of Fox News reports that cities like San Francisco now have organized crime rings brazenly stealing merchandise right out of stores and reselling it on the streets.  The founder of San Francisco's Code Tenderloin, a homeless service provider, said that drug addicts, who are often homeless, are stealing and fencing the merchandise to feed their drug habit.  Neither Mayor London Breed or anyone in the District Attorney's office responded to multiple calls for a statement about the problem, although San Francisco has the highest rate of property crime of the nation's 20 largest cities. The President of the California Retailers Association said that black market dealers are coming into the state to collect stolen merchandise because of the lack of consequences if caught.  When asked about the increase in thefts one San Diego 7-11 owner said, "its becoming a lifestyle for us now because we can't do anything much except take the loss."  Reports that arrests for property crime are down in California prove the point that essentially, theft has been legalized in the Golden State.