S hop owners in Oakland ’s Chinatown are fed up with vandals who repeatedly graffiti their stores and with city officials who keep fining them for it. It’s a never-ending cycle: the walls are ...

California is not exactly a shining beacon of how the criminal justice system should operate. Believe it or not, the state can always come up with ways to make things worse.

Shop owners in Oakland ’s Chinatown are fed up with vandals who repeatedly graffiti their stores and with city officials who keep fining them for it. It’s a never-ending cycle: the walls are ...