[balls187]

My guess is there are so many instances of “normal people theft” occurring that even calling back is a significant scale issue.

Basically, our criminal justice system is not built to handle minor crimes, and criminal organizations are exploiting that at scale.

[sneak]

Somehow they still manage to write people a lot of tickets, something that generates revenue for the police, and steal the money of legal marijuana businesses, something else that generates revenue for the police.

There are no consequences to the police for ignoring the parts of the job that do not directly generate revenue for the police.

This is not an overarching problem with "the criminal justice system" other than the fact that the police almost everywhere in the US have a culture of graft and rentseeking, and won't do anything if there isn't money or press involved.