JUAN: WE'VE ALL SEEN VIDEO OF THIEVES SMASHING AND GRABBING. TOM WAIT WITH MORE. REPORTER: SAFE TO SAY LAWMAKERS FEELING PRESSURE, DEMOCRATS THAT CONTROL ALL LEVELS OF POWER IN SACRAMENTO, GOVERNOR NEWSOM AND DEMOCRATS HOPE THAT NEW LAWS WILL STOP THE CRIME WAVE AND CONVINCE VOTERS TO REJECT PROP 36, A BALLOT MEASURE THAT CRACKS DOWN HARDER ON THIEVES AND DRUG CRIMES, SCENES LEAK THIS, TEARING THROUGH BUSINESSES, SMASHING AND STEALING HAVE MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES, AND TURNED CALIFORNIA TO A POLITICAL PUNCHING BAG WITH ACCUSATIONS THAT STATES IS LAWLESS AND WEAK ON CRIME. CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS WHO CONTROL STATE LEGISLATURE ARE TRYING TO TURN THE PAGE WITH GOVERNOR NEWSOM SIGNING LAST OF A PACKAGE OF BIPARTISAN BILLS THAT ALLOW LAW ENFORCEMENT TO CRACKDOWN ON RETAIL THEFT THERE WE'VE SEEN HOW ABOUT WHAT PUBLIC IS EXPERIENCING. EVERYTHING IS LOCKED UP. >> RICK CHAVEZ CHAIRS COMMITTEE ON RETAIL THEFT. >> BILL TODAY THAT GOVERNOR SIGNED THE LAST IN THIS GROUP OF BILLS, AND IT BILL THAT TARGETS THESE THAT HAVE BEEN ENGAGING IN WHAT YOU HAVE COVERS SMASH-AND-GRAB. WHERE BEGANS OF CRIMINAL OF -- GANGS OF CRIMINALS COME TO STORES, IN ADDITION TOES DISGRACE OF STEALING, THEY STEAL, BUT WILL COME IN WITH HAMMERS, AND AND BREAK UP THE STORE CABINETS AND BREAK WINDOWS. >> IN LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES ALONE, RETAIL THEFT INCREASES 40%. ACCORDING TO PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA. REPUBLICANS AND SOME DEMOCRATS BLAME THAT PASSAGE OF PROP FE 47 IN 2014 THAT WATERED-DOWN DRUG AND RETAIL THEFT CRIMES, THE PACKAGE ALLOWS PROSECUTORS MORLEY WE IN PROSECUTION. >> ONE THING THAT BILLS DO, IS THEY ALLOW WHAT WE CALL AGRAGATION IF YOU ENG ENGAGE IN MULTIPLE THEFTS, YOU CAN PROSECUTE THEM AS' FELONY. >> THEY HOPE NEW LEGISLATION DERAILS PROP 36 ON NOVEMBER BALLOT. IT IS A REFORM MEASURE FOR PROP 47, THEY OPPOSE PROP 36 CLAIMING IT FILL UP JAILS WITH PETTY OFFENDERS. >> THE BILLS ARE A GOOD START, THEY ARE BIPARTISAN BILLS. THEY HAVE ALL BEEN SUPPORTED. AND I SUPPORTED THEM ALSO. BUT PROPOSITION 36 IS A MUCH MORE EFFECT IVE DEAL WITH TEALING WITH RETAIL CRIME IN PARTICULAR DEALING WITH DRUG ADDICTION, MAKES THREE ARRESTS FOR POSSESSION OF HARD DRUGS, INCLUDING FENTANYL A TREATMENT MANDATED FELONY. >> PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, SAID THAT DEMOCRATS CONCERNS ABOUT FILLING UP JAILS WITH PETTY OFFENDERS IS NOT UNFOUNDED. >> THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE IN THE PAST. OUR 3 STRIKES LAWS WERE LEADING TO SO MANY PEOPLE POPULATING THE PRISONS. THIS WAS AN ISSUE THAT CALIFORNIA HAS FACED IN THE PAST, THEY ARE TRYING TO PREVENT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. THAT BEING SAID, THE VIRAL VIDEOS OF SMASH-AND-GRABS, TOOTH PASTE LOCKED UP AT PHARMACIES LEAVES IMPRESSION IN SO MANY VOTERS' MINDS THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS NORTH SAFE, THEIR COMMUNITIES ARE INSECURITY, THEY ARE LOOK FIGURE GOVERNMENT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS. REPORTER: NEW LEGISLATION SIGNED BY GOVERNOR NEWSOM WILL TAKE AFFECT IN VOTE JRSAN DUAECRYID,