Is governmental legislation to decriminalize many transgressions, like property theft, a beneficial humanitarian movement to create a gentler, happier, world with less incarceration, or something more sinister?

As you know, the divine perspective of your current law enforcement institutions sees it as much more negative than positive in terms of the ultimate furthering of harm to people through the heavy punishments instilled that, all too often, drag people down and become a barrier to their improvement personally, and a better adjustment to life and any possibility of becoming a model citizen, rather than shepherding them more and more towards the path of a career criminal or simply someone who is lost and continually runs afoul of the law because they are too impaired to follow rules effectively and stay out of trouble. Nonetheless, because your world is imperfect, having law and order is the lesser of evils. A lawless state would prevent the possibility of a modern civilization altogether, in the current setting. So to degrade the enforcement of existing laws through arbitrary lifting of current constraints will have appeal among certain sectors of the public, particularly the young who are more egalitarian, forward-looking, and naïve in the ways of the world through having had limited life experience, particularly with respect to being the victim of a crime. In a sense, having no consequences is performing a disservice to the criminal because if it allows them to perpetuate wrongdoing this will take them further and further out of divine alignment and there will be a heavy karmic price to pay, if nothing else. In the absence of effective means of rehabilitation, the criminal justice system often makes people worse rather than provide a way for them to recover from their misalignment and learn the lesson of responsibility to others into society to cause no harm. So to arbitrarily begin to remove social constraints on wrongdoing will naturally encourage that very wrongdoing, because no lessons are learned by those with impaired morality and currently inclined to pray on others. They will see this as an encouragement to further take advantage of others, knowing they can get away with it with little consequence. So such legislation can reduce the numbers of people behind bars who suffer. It will also increase the number of people who suffer from being victimized by these criminals, whether a shop owner whose inventory is plundered by a gang working in concert to clean them out in a mass attack, or isolated acts of shoplifting, or purse snatchers, and break-ins to cars and homes to steal cell phones and other valuables. Such legislation is poorly conceived political maneuvering to appeal to liberal-minded voters, but is hardly more than a token gesture as it will do little, on balance, to improve the quality of life and will actively degrade it in visible and definable ways, when the statistics will show an increase in crime whether or not the numerical population of those incarcerated increases at a lesser rate, or actually declines. Again, you will get the world you decide to have through your actions. If you follow the corrupted thinking of the interlopers it will always be worse.