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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   159,130 views  1,037 comments

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https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/04/19/chesa-boudins-dangerous-san-francisco/

‘Hey, where are you?” Hannah Ege texted her husband, Sheria Musyoka. He’d left on a morning jog and had been gone for an hour and a half. Hannah was home, taking care of their three-year-old son. She began to freak out. She called and texted and called again. He never answered.

Speeding and drunk — at just shy of eight in the morning — Jerry Lyons barreled through a red light at an intersection in a stolen Ford Explorer. Lyons struck and killed Musyoka, a 26-year-old Dartmouth grad who had moved to San Francisco only ten days earlier with his wife and their son. After clipping Musyoka, Lyons collided with another car, causing an eight-car pileup that sent several other people to the hospital.

The San Francisco police arrested Lyons on multiple charges that morning in February, but this was not the first time he’d been arrested for drunk driving in a stolen car. On December 3, he had been arrested for driving under the influence, driving a stolen vehicle, and driving without a license. Before that, he’d been released from prison after serving time for a grand-theft conviction; in fact, Lyons had been arrested at least seven times in the Bay Area since his release from prison, and his rap sheet goes back a decade. Still, San Francisco’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, delayed pressing charges against Lyons until a toxicology report confirmed that he had been inebriated, which, more than a month and a half later in January, it did. Lyons then had 14 days to turn himself in to the DA’s office. On the 13th day, he killed Musyoka. While COVID-era difficulties might have accounted for the medical examiner’s slow speed in returning test results, a different DA could have chosen to move forward sooner — taking necessary precautions — and charged Lyons with a DUI based on observable factors alone, such as the results of Lyons’s field sobriety test, his erratic driving in a stolen vehicle, and close scrutiny of his behavior.

Hannah Ege expressed her grief and pain to a local TV news station, railing at the district attorney’s reluctance to lock up repeat offenders. Whom does she blame for her husband’s death? “The DA,” she said. “This freak accident was no freak accident. It was someone who was out in the public who should not have been out in public.”

The Lyons mayhem is not an isolated case in the city by the bay. On New Year’s Eve, a parolee on the run from a robbery — also in a stolen car — sped through a red light, striking and killing two women, 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt and 27-year-old Hanako Abe, who were in the crosswalk. The driver, Troy McAlister, had been released twice by the district attorney in the previous year: the first time because Boudin refuses to pursue three-strike cases, of which McAlister’s was one; the second — as recently as December 20, when the SFPD arrested McAlister for driving a stolen car — because Boudin kicked the case to the state parole officers, who did nothing.

Welcome to San Francisco’s latest idiocy, a new experiment in governance where everything is allowed but nothing is permitted. A paradox, you might say, but take a walk down Market Street, down that great avenue in a great city in a great nation, and note the desolation of the empty streets, the used needles tossed on the sidewalks, and the boarded-up windows on storefronts. Consider that, at various unpredictable times in the last year, it has been illegal — for the sake of public safety during COVID — to run a mom-and-pop corner shop or to serve food at sidewalk cafés. Reflect for a moment that, since time immemorial, it has been illegal to build any new housing, because of the most onerous and confusing zoning laws in the known universe. Mark Zuckerberg can apparently influence national elections by tweaking algorithms, but he is powerless before the planning commission when it comes to building apartments for his employees. The city has banned plastic straws, plastic bags, and McDonald’s Happy Meals with toys. And yet, all the while, drug dealers sell their wares — COVID or no COVID — openly and freely at all hours of the day and night, users shoot up or pop fentanyl in public and defecate on the street, robbers pillage cars and homes with the ease of Visigoth raiders, and the district attorney frees repeat offenders who go on to sow disorder, pain, devastation, and grief. A profound melancholy hangs in the air of this city, punctuated only by the shrieks of a junkie dreaming of demons or by the rat-tat-tat-bam of the occasional firework. (Or was that a gun?) ...

How did it come to this? On January 8, 2020, Mayor London Breed swore in Chesa Boudin as the new district attorney of San Francisco in front of a packed house at the Herbst Theater. Boudin won the election by a nose in a runoff, with oily promises to feel the pain of all parties to a crime, both victims and perpetrators. He made pledges to enact “restorative justice” and prison reform through “decarceration.” U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor recorded a congratulatory video message, which was played at the swearing-in ceremony for Boudin and the crowd. “Chesa, you have undertaken a remarkable challenge today,” the justice said. “The hope you reflect is a great beacon to many.”

The task before Boudin was already monumental. Before he assumed his office, San Francisco ranked No. 1 in the nation in property crime. On average, thieves broke 60 car windows per day, with impunity. In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, a reform measure that reduced many felonies to ticketed misdemeanors, such as theft of less than $950 and hard-drug possession. There were more drug addicts on the streets than there were students in the schools. Tent encampments of homeless people had sprouted in every nook and alley and under every highway overpass. Commuters faced a daily gauntlet in the form of an appalling humanitarian crisis in the streets.

But Boudin immediately refused to take any responsibility for these issues. Among his first acts was to fire seven veteran prosecutors who were not on board with his radical views. (Over 30 prosecutors have left during his tenure because they don’t want to work for him.) Next, Boudin abolished the cash-bail system, so offenders are able to walk free after arrest. He rarely brings a case to trial: Out of the 6,333 cases to land on his desk since taking office, he has gone to trial only 23 times. This is one-tenth the rate of his predecessor, George Gascón, who was hardly tough on crime. Since the killing of George Floyd, there has been a shortage of cops, as officers retire in record numbers. San Francisco has also moved to defund the police, with plans to shift $120 million in law-enforcement funding to restorative-justice programs, housing support, and a guaranteed-income pilot, among other ideas.

To where does Boudin’s “great beacon” point? Over the last year, there have been more deaths from drug overdoses in San Francisco than from COVID-19. Walgreens has closed ten of its drugstores in the city because its shelves were being pillaged freely by shoplifters. According to SFPD’s CompStat, compared with last year, arson has increased 52 percent, motor-vehicle theft is up 21 percent, and burglaries have seen a 59 percent increase. One largely Asian neighborhood, the Richmond district, has reported a 342 percent spike in burglaries this year compared with last. Admittedly, some numbers are down, such as those for larceny and robbery. But police attribute these declines to the pandemic, since there are fewer opportunities for would-be criminals to commit such crimes as people shelter in place. One neighborhood association sent a letter in February to Boudin and Mayor Breed, begging them to restore public safety. The association also posted it on the Internet. “Our neighborhood can’t wait another day,” they wrote. “Our homes are repeatedly broken into and robbed. Our merchants suffer unsustainable losses from theft and smashed windows. Employees are threatened with guns. Residents are robbed at gunpoint on our own streets. The sound of gunshots is no longer unusual.” ...

Now, what rough beast slouches its way towards San Francisco? With a district attorney who won’t prosecute crimes, how long will it be until an anxious Google engineer defends himself from being harassed by a madman? Will envious arsonists light the Salesforce Tower on fire as a jacked-up mob courses through the streets burning and looting the Painted Ladies?

A desperate sun struggles through the fog. There may be one ray of hope. The city has recently approved the effort to recall Chesa Boudin from office. Locals could begin downloading signature-gathering petitions on March 12. If 10 percent of registered voters sign the petition, all voters may get the chance to vote the bum out. But even if they do, it will remain tragic for Musyoka, Platt, Abe, and others like them that the day did not come soon enough.



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170   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 10:34am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-stores-hold-100-off-black-friday-sale





SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a beloved San Fran tradition, stores across the city are holding their annual 100% off Black Friday sale today, offering shoppers the opportunity to come in, throw as much stuff in a bag as they can fit, and run out of the store.

"Come one, come all, and check out these amazing discounts!" said the manager of one San Francisco Walgreens. "You can get makeup, electronics, Takis, sunglasses, you name it—even prescription medications!"

One shopper said she just had to go check out the savings on designer handbags. "Yeah, I don't really like going out in the crowds, but for 100% off, sure. I'll throw on a ski mask and some gloves and grab as many Gucci purses as possible."

What's more, shops across San Francisco are offering an extended return policy on all goods taken from the store during these amazing 100% off bargain sales, so that you can bring that big screen TV back if it doesn't end up fitting or you can't flip it on OfferUp for a tidy profit.

At publishing time, the stores had confirmed they will be holding this sale every day for the foreseeable future, or at least "as long as the Democrats remain in office."


What's a "Taki"?
171   Automan Empire   2021 Nov 27, 12:14pm  

Patrick says
What's a "Taki"?


Shitty foreign Funyun-level snack food.
172   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 12:29pm  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/84385

NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Leftist Cities Hit by Crime Spree
Looters in Chicago and San Francisco staged coordinated raids on high-end stores.
173   AmericanKulak   2021 Nov 28, 8:42am  

Welcome to San Francisco. A Japanese woman from NYC has her car broken into and her camera equipment and work laptop stolen by a white supremacist engaging in bread-getting. Seth Rogen says this is just a normal thing to deal with in beautiful California. pic.twitter.com/z2OGRiE9XE

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) November 28, 2021
176   RWSGFY   2021 Dec 1, 12:10am  

Patrick says
https://notthebee.com/article/please-enjoy-this-video-of-looters-looting-other-looters-

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1465393803120889860


Libs of Tik Tok
@libsoftiktok
Nov 29
Looters looting other looters. Love to see it 😂😂





Fucking 🇳🇪🇳🇪
177   HeadSet   2021 Dec 1, 7:03am  

What is nene? A reference to that goose that cannot protect itself?
178   Patrick   2021 Dec 1, 2:05pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/a-restaurant-in-san-francisco-had-to-delay-its-opening-after-a-group-of-criminals-broke-in-and-burgled-the-place-and-threw-a-huge-disgusting-party


A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party
179   EBGuy   2021 Dec 1, 2:10pm  

Patrick says
A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party

Wow, that pop up party is pretty crazy. Who needs to rent an AirBnb...
180   HeadSet   2021 Dec 1, 2:32pm  

Patrick says
A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party

Yep, and I would guess that Asian owner voted dem.
181   Eric Holder   2021 Dec 1, 2:46pm  

Patrick says
https://notthebee.com/article/a-restaurant-in-san-francisco-had-to-delay-its-opening-after-a-group-of-criminals-broke-in-and-burgled-the-place-and-threw-a-huge-disgusting-party


A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party


It gives me a business idea....
182   EBGuy   2021 Dec 3, 1:50pm  

This article is utterly terrifying...
Jessica said her life might seem hard, but it’s actually pretty carefree, and she offered a sweeping explanation of one reason why her mom would face such long odds trying to pull her out of San Francisco.
“The city is way too easy for people with nothing to get by,” she said. “That’s why I’m still here nine years later. You get by with doing drugs and suffer no consequences. I like it here.”
184   richwicks   2021 Dec 3, 11:42pm  

HeadSet says
Patrick says
A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party

Yep, and I would guess that Asian owner voted dem.


The Asians I know are few, but many are business owners - they are NOT democrats.

Asians have their own sort of "white trash" - where people just take advantage of the system, because if the system allows it - why not? Take advantage of "stupidity" is their thinking.

When I was a 20 year old kid, I didn't think it was POSSIBLE somebody would take advantage of a government social program that was designed to help people who were down on their luck or were having trouble in life. My thinking was "who would take advantage of a program meant to help the poor and desperate?? They are taking away from people who are REALLY in need! Maybe a FEW people would do that, but they'd have to be fucking scum to do it".

Well, there's a scum.

There's a reason for the concept of "shame". People using EBT cards can do it without being noticed, food stamps, they couldn't do that.

Some Indian/Pakistani cunt was outside of a local Safeway with her KID begging for money. I called her our, I said "this is shameful, you are exploiting your child, you're scum. You should be ashamed, you're a terrible terrible parent!". She's was not there today. There's several fast food restaurants hiring for $17 an hour starting wage around here. Every business is looking for non skilled labor.
185   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Dec 4, 7:36am  

Patrick says
https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-stores-hold-100-off-black-friday-sale?source=patrick.net





SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a beloved San Fran tradition, stores across the city are holding their annual 100% off Black Friday sale today, offering shoppers the opportunity to come in, throw as much stuff in a bag as they can fit, and run out of the store.

"Come one, come all, and check out these amazing discounts!" said the manager of one San Francisco Walgreens. "You can get makeup, electronics, Takis, sunglasses, you name it—even prescription medications!"

One shopper said she just had to go check out the savings on designer handbags. "Yeah, I don't really like going out in the crowds, but for 100% off, sure. I'll throw on a ski mask and some gl...


We have this in LA now, personally witnessed the event.
186   AmericanKulak   2021 Dec 4, 8:00am  

EBGuy says
This article is utterly terrifying...
Jessica said her life might seem hard, but it’s actually pretty carefree, and she offered a sweeping explanation of one reason why her mom would face such long odds trying to pull her out of San Francisco.
“The city is way too easy for people with nothing to get by,” she said. “That’s why I’m still here nine years later. You get by with doing drugs and suffer no consequences. I like it here.”

Thanks for this.

Genetics and free shit

Thanks, @EBGuy. Adam's twitter is great: https://twitter.com/bettersoma?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
187   Booger   2021 Dec 4, 5:03pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10274993/Spate-robberies-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-threatens-survival-cannabis-shops.html?source=patrick.net

Looters steal $5 MILLION of products from 15 cannabis shops in the San Francisco Bay Area in a single month: One business owner insists it was 'safer to sell on the streets illegally'
188   charlie303   2021 Dec 4, 6:31pm  

Are all of the smash and grab robberies opportunistic thieves?

Most are, in my opinion. They are cashing in on the stupidity of Liberal policies.

But is there also some coordinated plan from behind the curtain to destabilize America?

Something modelled on Hitler's Night of the Broken Glass? A variation thereon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht?source=patrick.net

A lot of DA;s are appointed by Soros and promoted by the left wing media are they not?
189   Patrick   2021 Dec 4, 10:05pm  

New York has same political lunacy, and therefore the same crime wave:

https://notthebee.com/article/crime-in-new-york-is-so-out-of-control-that-bank-of-america-is-reportedly-telling-its-staffers-to-dress-down-when-coming-into-work?source=patrick.net


Crime in New York is so out of control that Bank of America is reportedly telling its staffers to "dress down" when coming into work
191   Patrick   2021 Dec 13, 8:41am  

https://unherd.com/2021/12/will-california-ever-be-safe-again/?source=patrick.net


Once upon a time, we would have been shocked by this level of crime. Today, citizens fatalistically adapt their behaviours. I know countless women who no longer walk alone after dark in California’s cities. Everyone knows to hide anything they leave in their cars. Those who can afford it are installing gates and building tall fences around their homes. The wealthy are hiring personal security and no longer relying on police for protection. I’ve seen this all before — in Nairobi as well as other places in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and India.
192   rocketjoe79   2021 Dec 13, 9:08am  

Patrick says
https://unherd.com/2021/12/will-california-ever-be-safe-again/?source=patrick.net


Once upon a time, we would have been shocked by this level of crime. Today, citizens fatalistically adapt their behaviours. I know countless women who no longer walk alone after dark in California’s cities. Everyone knows to hide anything they leave in their cars. Those who can afford it are installing gates and building tall fences around their homes. The wealthy are hiring personal security and no longer relying on police for protection. I’ve seen this all before — in Nairobi as well as other places in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and India.


You can add South Africa to the list.
194   EBGuy   2021 Dec 16, 5:29pm  

Somebody (any guesses?) gave London Breed a pep talk. San Francisco Mayor CRACKS DOWN On Crime, REVERSES Defund The Police Budget Cuts
195   RWSGFY   2021 Dec 16, 7:51pm  

EBGuy says
Somebody (any guesses?) gave London Breed a pep talk. San Francisco Mayor CRACKS DOWN On Crime, REVERSES Defund The Police Budget Cuts


LITERALLY HITLER!
196   Patrick   2021 Dec 16, 8:31pm  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/84965?utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_content=body


San Fransisco Mayor London Breed sounds like she had just had a conversation with Dirty Harry. “It’s time the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,” she declared. “And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement. More aggressive with the changes in our policies and less tolerant of all the bulls*** that has destroyed our city.”

The last Republican mayor of San Francisco left office in 1964.

Maybe she’s “feeling lucky,” but Breed said she would be putting forward a plan to provide more funding for police for more overtime and the hiring of additional officers. She also recommended changes to the city’s laws that have made it more difficult for police to respond to criminals. Laws like the one passed by the Board of Supervisors in 2019 that forbids officers from accessing live closed camera feeds during emergencies. She criticized the law by stating, “Where there were multiple robbery crews hitting multiple stores, [officers] couldn’t even access those cameras, which is ridiculous.”


Are they really waking up, or just spouting more empty bullshit as usual?
197   Patrick   2021 Dec 16, 8:49pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/san-franciscos-mayor-last-year-proposed-to-fundamentally-change-the-nature-of-policing-in-the-city-and-now-shes-launching-a-massive-police-initiative-to-address-the-citys-insane-crime-rate?source=patrick.net


Last year, San Francisco Mayor London Breed publicly vowed to "fundamentally change the nature of policing in San Francisco" by way of "ending the use of police in response to non-criminal activity; addressing police bias and strengthening accountability; demilitarizing the police; and promoting economic justice."


That didn't work out so well, so now she's going to pretend she didn't say those things.


That's quite a reversal in tone. Last year she said the San Francisco Police Department had "significant work to do," and now she's calling for the city to be "more aggressive with law enforcement." That's a level of flip-flopping you usually only see in big-budget movies!
198   richwicks   2021 Dec 16, 8:53pm  

Patrick says
Are they really waking up, or just spouting more empty bullshit as usual?


On the East Coast it was a common scam of the government to intentionally let a neighborhood go to hell in order to reduce real estate prices and they would do this over decades. Property prices would decrease, only the poor would move in (or slumlords) and then they would buy up the property on the cheap.

Once enough of the property was under their control, they would again have law enforcement, and very strict as well. This would drive out the gangs, they would leave because it was no longer a good hunting ground, and prices would start to go up. First it was those that held out that saw the advantage - but large properties were under the control of friends / relatives of the authorities - but they would drive prices up and make a windfall profit once they were at the top of the market.

They did this to Brooklyn and Harlem.

That's being done to ALL of San Francisco, and not enough time has elapsed. It's empty bullshit. SF will get worse over the next decade, not better. At least, if they are following the East Coast's mafia playbook.
199   RC2006   2021 Dec 16, 8:53pm  

It's all bullshit. I believe it's to late for man-made correction in SF to fix the liberal cancer condition. What SF needs is an act of nature to solve this issue, it needs an earthquake to burn it down to the ground to reset. The drug addicts, grifters, filth rich liberals, and brainwashed, all need to be scrubbed away by a horrific calamity.
201   Patrick   2021 Dec 16, 8:55pm  

richwicks says
On the East Coast it was a common scam of the government to intentionally let a neighborhood go to hell in order to reduce real estate prices and they would do this over decades. Property prices would decrease, only the poor would move in (or slumlords) and then they would buy up the property on the cheap.


Mayor Alioto used to do this with specific neighborhoods in San Francisco, they say.
202   richwicks   2021 Dec 16, 9:51pm  

Patrick says
richwicks says
On the East Coast it was a common scam of the government to intentionally let a neighborhood go to hell in order to reduce real estate prices and they would do this over decades. Property prices would decrease, only the poor would move in (or slumlords) and then they would buy up the property on the cheap.


Mayor Alioto used to do this with specific neighborhoods in San Francisco, they say.


When I moved here, I thought I had escaped the mafia. My young dumb self!

This was, of course, before I realized the entire government was a mafia. Ah, to be innocent again.
203   Ceffer   2021 Dec 16, 10:41pm  

Patrick says
Mayor Alioto used to do this with specific neighborhoods in San Francisco, they say.


I think now they just use fires and directed energy weapons. People always move right back to razed areas in California, no matter how much they are mudslided, burned or quaked. It occurred to me that Santa Rosa and Paradise were just insurance and development scams.
204   Patrick   2021 Dec 17, 5:57pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/last-year-nancy-pelosi-refused-to-condemn-mobs-of-rioters-destroying-public-monuments-and-now-shes-baffledbaffled-i-tell-youat-the-attitude-of-lawlessness-around-the-country?source=patrick.net

Last year Nancy Pelosi refused to condemn rioters and now she's baffled—baffled, I tell you!—at the "attitude of lawlessness" around the country 🤔
205   komputodo   2021 Dec 17, 6:47pm  

Patrick says
burgled the place,

Now that's a word one rarely hears.
206   komputodo   2021 Dec 17, 6:48pm  

Patrick says
Last year Nancy Pelosi refused to condemn rioters and now she's baffled—baffled, I tell you!—at the "attitude of lawlessness" around the country 🤔

Surprised she doesn't just blame it on TRUMP.
208   casandra   2021 Dec 18, 11:54am  

Regardless what the politicians say: NOTHING WILL CHANGE! The course has been set. They are told to say they will be against crime because they HAVE TO to stay in office. That is also part of the plan. BUT, they do need to get reelected so that's why we hear this rhetoric. If people believe in change, then don't vote in the people who have been in office and denigrated the city. But people are inherently dumb so they will vote in the same chiflados! Chiflados is a great Spanish word. Google the meaning.

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