Is Proposition 47 responsible for crime increases in California?

Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
In 2014, voters approved Proposition 47,  which reduced a handful of drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. Those crimes include possession of certain drugs as well as petty theft, receiving stolen property and forging/writing bad checks when the amount involved is $950 or less.
With California no longer packing state prisons with people convicted of s