Last Friday I gave a lesson on property crimes (much less controversial than my previous topic). Property crimes are generally broken into two categories: theft and vandalism. I covered theft, but will likely have to continue it this week as they left my waiting at the first sally-port for about 20 minutes (there's probably a clever title in here somewhere involving a sally-port and legislature, but it isn't coming to me) and so I couldn't really cover the entire lesson. However, the class was great and I promised them that if they beat the record on an ice-breaker I'd see if I could get permission to bring them pizza. I get the feeling they don't believe me, but my contact at San Mateo JH just got promoted to a pretty high position so I might have enough pull to do it. Most of the youth are in there for either property crimes or drugs so this particular lesson was pretty relevant.
In terms of legislative change, my CP doesn't directly do any work in that regard. However, I previously mentioned the CCPOA, and they certainly do. It generally does this in 3 ways:
-By pouring money into campaigns in order to sway the election to legislators-to-be who may be more sympathetic to their cause
-By publicly coming out in support of a piece of legislature (this is especially effective when it is up to a public vote, such as ballot initiatives).
-By publicly supporting candidates for the legislature that they feel will be sympathetic to their cause (or at least more sympathetic than their opponent).
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