Los Angeles Times comes out against popular anti-crime ballot initiative

The Los Angeles Times editorial board claimed in an opinion piece on Sunday that Proposition 36 would penalize drug users rather than stop petty crime.

However, the LA Times defended Prop 47 as "smart" in their opposition of Proposition 36. Lindsay Kornick is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.

"The problems the measure claims to address — retail theft, drug abuse and homelessness — are to some degree intertwined. But despite proponents’ claims, they are unrelated to Proposition 47, a smart 2014 criminal justice reform measure that brought California's theft law in line with other states and made drug possession for personal use a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail," the editorial board wrote.