States that protect squatters encourage vigilante justice
The article discusses the challenges property owners face in California due to a legal system that appears to empower squatters. As a result, some individuals resort to vigilante justice, employing companies that use aggressive tactics to remove squatters. This situation highlights broader concerns about the legal system's effectiveness in protecting victims of crime.
- ▪California's justice system is criticized for empowering squatters and making it difficult for property owners to reclaim their properties.
- ▪Property owners often face lengthy legal battles that leave their properties damaged.
- ▪Some individuals are turning to vigilante justice, hiring companies that use aggressive methods to deal with squatters.
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| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000 |
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When Democrats refuse to promote law and order, they allow criminals to call the shots. When people see that the perverted justice system is working against them, they decide to take matters, and samurai swords, into their own hands. California’s justice system empowers squatters, low-life homeless or near-homeless people who move themselves into properties they don’t pay for or own. Squatting cases are funneled through California’s slow civil court system, where squatters and soulless lawyers drag out the cases to maximize the damage against the owners, who are the victims. Unlike in, say, Florida, police are powerless to do much of anything.
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