I'm Jimmy Wallace. This is the incarnate investigation. As I've been putting together this podcast I've been working a residential burglary case.

Residential burglary, well that's where a suspect or suspect, that's where someone breaks into someone else's home in order to steal stuff, their valuables, whatever they got inside.

Residential burglary, it's very common here in California, especially in LA.

In the last few years the kind of punishment for this crime has been drastically reduced and now as long as no one is present

inside the house when the suspect breaks in then the crime falls into the nonviolent

non serious non sexual the three non-s category.

Suspects caught in this type of crime in California,

they can do it as little as a couple of months in custody.

And they're housed at a lower level county jail

rather than the state prison where they used to be housed in the past.

And when they're released, they're released on a,

if they get released early, if that is, they're released on a, if they get released early, that is.

They're released on a modified version of parole called post-release community supervision, or PRCSCS for short.

It doesn't last as long as parole,

and it's not typically as closely monitored

as parole is or was.

So many criminals who used to make their living through other types of crime, now they've turned

a residential burglary because the risk versus reward is so much better. Criminals are learned the new and more relaxed laws here in California

and kind of makes sense. I mean committing crime is their business. It's not everybody's business, but there are career criminals who make the majority of their money committing crime.

Often when people are booked into custody, they will put down what type of work they do.

They'll put their name, their address, and then their form of employment.

It's common with career criminals for them to put down never been employed under their business.

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