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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   159,103 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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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.
210   HeadSet   2021 Dec 24, 7:33am  

casandra says
But people are inherently dumb so they will vote in the same chiflados!

The politician is not the chiflado, the chiflado would be the voter. I would love to see "chiflado" become a borrow word to mean "idiot voter."
211   richwicks   2021 Dec 24, 7:58am  

HeadSet says
casandra says
But people are inherently dumb so they will vote in the same chiflados!

The politician is not the chiflado, the chiflado would be the voter. I would love to see "chiflado" become a borrow word to mean "idiot voter."


Please stop blindly trusting that people are actually voting these pieces of shit in.

We have an unverifiable voting system. This is by design. There's no complexity to counting ballots, yet, it cannot be demonstrated to be accurate. The reason this is, is that voting is superficial - we do not chose who is "elected". They aren't elected, they are picked.
212   HeadSet   2021 Dec 24, 8:11am  

richwicks says
We have an unverifiable voting system.

Excellent point.
213   Onvacation   2021 Dec 24, 10:51am  

They let us vote for tweedle Dee or tweedle dum but the narrative moves forward, even with Trump, especially with Trump!

I am still not sure if Trump was a willing actor or not.
214   Patrick   2021 Dec 26, 10:38pm  

Good quote I read recently:

"You can't blame conservatives for what has happened to San Francisco."
218   EBGuy   2022 Jan 13, 8:26pm  

Have we hit peak poop?
And as far as the record-setting number of omicron cases goes, Gandhi guarantees they’ll start to come down in a matter of just days. She bases that on what she calls, “solid” evidence.

“We actually monitor COVID in sewage and what’s happening in the sewage, genomics sequences of COVID are coming down. So that’s the first sign; we’ve already peaked with our waste water COVID,” said Gandhi.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/just-a-few-more-weeks-newsom-forecasts-end-to-pandemic-in-very-near-future/2777065/?source=patrick.net
221   Onvacation   2022 Feb 9, 5:22pm  

Lesson for High School Junkies.
222   Patrick   2022 Feb 10, 2:23pm  

The above is from:

https://notthebee.com/article/crazy-this-homeless-dude-moved-from-texas-to-san-francisco-because-they-pay-you-to-be-homeless-he-also-explains-how-he-sells-fentanyl-to-teenagers?source=patrick.net


This Dude Moved From Texas To San Fran Because "They Pay You To Be Homeless." Listen To How He Regularly Sees Death And Sells Fentanyl To Teens With No Police Enforcement.
223   Ceffer   2022 Feb 10, 2:33pm  

Tons of these guys in Santa Cruz, too. Crazy junkies and ex felons, nasty pieces of work. This guy is rational and collected by comparison.

Last year, a 15 year old upper middle class kid was found dead in Santa Cruz, supposedly on his way to school. Word was a drug overdose, probably fentanyl, but the family had some pull and they squelched the publicity pronto.

They found enough fentanyl on a single dealer in Santa Cruz to kill the entire city.
224   Patrick   2022 Feb 11, 9:43am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/san-francisco-is-sick/?source=patrick.net


Many of the problems stemmed from Covid-19. California’s prisons, jails and homeless shelters were under orders to reduce their occupancy. But none of these problems started with the pandemic. Between 2008 and 2019, about 18,000 companies, including Toyota, Charles Schwab and Hewlett-Packard, fled California due to a constellation of problems sometimes summarized as “poor business climate.” California has the highest income tax, highest gasoline tax and highest sales tax in the United States, spends significantly more than other states on homelessness, and yet has worse outcomes.

Though I have been a progressive and Democrat all of my adult life, I found myself asking a question that sounded rather conservative. What were we getting for our high taxes? Why, after twenty years of voting for ballot initiatives promising to address drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness, had all three gotten worse? And why had progressive Democratic elected officials stopped enforcing many laws against certain groups of people, from unhoused people suffering mental illness and drug addiction in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle, to heavily armed and mostly white anarchists in Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis? ...

Many of the people who enjoy some of the highest levels of prosperity and freedom in human history are also the least grateful, and least loyal, to the civilization that made it possible. The progressive obsession with changing the names of schools and tearing down statues of people allegedly guilty of genocide in the past comes at a time when our greatest global rival is actually guilty of committing one in the present.
225   richwicks   2022 Feb 11, 5:48pm  

Onvacation says
I am still not sure if Trump was a willing actor or not.


I don't either, but he did incredible damage to the establishment. If he was an actor, he really threw a shoe into the works.
230   Ceffer   2022 Feb 16, 12:19pm  

What's the world come to when you can't trust a Communist any more?
232   Patrick   2022 Feb 17, 7:55pm  

https://www.theblaze.com/news/san-francisco-recall-blame-trump?source=patrick.net


San Francisco official blames racism, Trump and 'closet Republicans' for recall of school board members


Do they have any other reply, ever?

Something associated with facts and reality would be nice for a change.

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