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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   159,049 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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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.
236   richwicks   2022 Feb 19, 11:02pm  

Patrick says
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.


The more libel and slander they use, the better.

The truth isn't on their side. That's why they don't access it.
239   Patrick   2022 Mar 12, 7:35pm  

https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-ted-wheeler-poverty-edb884d8bf98e45b16372c1c8b7182e7?source=patrick.net


Liberal US cities change course, now clearing homeless camps
By SARA CLINE
March 11, 2022


Midterms coming up you know.
240   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2022 Mar 12, 7:38pm  

Patrick says


I personally know the ladies running this, they are in LA. We work together on recalling these woke shitbags.
242   Patrick   2022 Mar 14, 10:26am  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/homeless-tents-san-franciscos-tenderloin-district-increase-300-leaving-streets-unsanitary-unsafe-impassable-lawsuit-says/?source=patrick.net


Homeless Tents In San Francisco’s Tenderloin District Increase By 300%, Leaving Streets ‘Unsanitary, Unsafe, Impassable,’ Lawsuit Says
By Eric A. Blair
Published May 11, 2020
243   Patrick   2022 Mar 14, 10:31am  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/violent-crime-wave-seattle-amazon-removing-workers-downtown-offices/?source=patrick.net

Due To Violent Crime Wave In Seattle, Amazon “Removing” Workers From Downtown Offices
244   Patrick   2022 Mar 14, 10:40am  

https://spectatorworld.com/newsletter/luxury-beliefs-time-war-dc-diary-03-14-22/?source=patrick.net


The term “luxury beliefs” was coined by Rob Henderson, a doctoral candidate at Cambridge University, in 2019: “Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.” The best example of a luxury belief in recent years is probably the Defund the Police vogue: a push by the woke and the affluent to dismantle the public service that poor Americans living in dangerous neighborhoods rely on for their safety.


Lol, "luxury beliefs" is a good way to put it.
245   Patrick   2022 Mar 16, 4:54pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/san-francisco-is-so-paranoid-about-states-with-anti-lgbt-laws-that-it-has-official-travel-and-business-bans-on-most-states-in-the-us-?source=patrick.net


A March 4 memorandum from City Administrator Carmen Chu reveals that San Francisco will not enter into contracts with businesses headquartered in most of the United States — 28 states in all. Official travel to those states is also forbidden. And this list includes some surprises: Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wisconsin.

As a result of this vast boycott, San Francisco is constraining the number of businesses it can ink deals with, which all but certainly inhibits quality and drives up costs. It also adds onerous time constraints to the contracting process, which leads to poor outcomes and also drives up costs.
247   zzyzzx   2022 Mar 24, 7:48am  

https://abc7news.com/crime-tourism-california-hillsborough-home-burglary/11661309/?source=patrick.net

'Crime tourism' bringing burglary crews from South America to Hillsborough, other CA communities
248   Eric Holder   2022 Mar 24, 9:10am  

Patrick says






After Putin's ass is properly kicked we should invite Azov Battalion to clear Seattle and Portland of Globohomo BLM Antifa types. Maybe patrol our Southern border too.
249   Ceffer   2022 Mar 24, 9:20am  

zzyzzx says
https://abc7news.com/crime-tourism-california-hillsborough-home-burglary/11661309/?source=patrick.net

'Crime tourism' bringing burglary crews from South America to Hillsborough, other CA communities

There were helicopters and planes buzzing around Tri Valley yesterday. A 'burglary team' of four burglars were being sought, gave a 100 mile per hour chase through suburban streets before abandoning vehicle and fleeing on foot. Haven't heard if they caught them.

Hillsborough is a RichFuck redoubt, home to many oligarchy types, so if that is true, a formidable coastal elite area has been breached by the Hun. Is this 'wake up' time, or will they just 'build a wall'?
250   HeadSet   2022 Mar 24, 12:13pm  

Ceffer says
Hillsborough is a RichFuck redoubt, home to many oligarchy types, so if that is true, a formidable coastal elite area has been breached by the Hun.

I would guess that the "Huns" are locally sponsored. Some local hood is recruiting, arranging travel, scoping targets, and fencing goods.
251   Patrick   2022 Mar 30, 10:21am  



The most astounding thing is that both the naked guy and the one who attacked him are wearing masks.

For their safety, you know.

I think this is Westfield Mall in SF.

https://nitter.net/pmarca/status/1508647586701344771#m
252   richwicks   2022 Mar 30, 11:02am  

Patrick says
The most astounding thing is that both the naked guy and the one who attacked him are wearing masks.


No, that is not the most astounding thing..

https://vidmax.com/video/211904-nsfw-naked-man-walks-into-store-to-sexually-assault-a-trans-employee-in-san-francisco-all-sorts-of-hell-breaks-loose?source=patrick.net

Apparently this man was trying to sexually assault a transgendered employee - the employee then locked... itself?... in a closet then this guy tried to break in with the fire extinguisher - then, apparently, the transgendered employee's boyfriend attacked him with a sign.

Who knows if the account is true - but if it's true, it's crazy.
253   Patrick   2022 Mar 31, 8:53pm  

https://www.bizjournals.com/?source=patrick.net


San Francisco sought a big return to office in March. Did it happen?
Mark CalveyMar 30, 2022, 5:06pm PDT

In early March, San Francisco Mayor London Breed elicited pledges from over two dozen of the city's biggest companies to help re-energize largely moribund downtown by making plans in March to bring workforces back on site under the title, "Welcome Back to San Francisco."

As the designated back-to-work month drew to a close, a momentum-boosting wave of thousands of workers streaming back to their downtown offices has as yet failed to materialize. But even as some of those companies, including Visa, Bank of America, Uber and Salesforce, unveil plans to return large portions of their workforces back to the office, hybrid work schedules and corporate policies that accommodate those who prefer to be fully remote mean that the effect of any eventual return is likely to be muted.

San Francisco's downtown, in other words, is not going to resemble its pre-pandemic self anytime soon, and whether it's enough to throw a lifeline to restaurants, retailers and others who have been waiting two years for the return of the downtown office crowd remains to be seen.

Those coming into the office in San Francisco stood at 31.2% of the pre-pandemic level for the week that ended March 23, up 1.1 percentage point from the prior week, according to the latest weekly occupancy report from Kastle, which provides workplace security systems. San Jose stood at 32.1%, up 1.9 percentage point from the prior week. The Bay Area cities are the lowest of any major metro in the country, far behind Austin at 52.9%, and even hard-hit New York at 36.1%

“I don’t think we’re going to be up there with the leading metros for some time. We’d be lucky to get there this year,” Ted Egan, chief economist in the controller’s office for the City and County of San Francisco, told me.

Egan is also monitoring daily exits from the BART stations in or near downtown San Francisco — at Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell and Civic Center. The numbers illustrate the long road back for the city’s downtown. Weekday riders exiting the four downtown stations combined is 25% of pre-pandemic normal at best, Egan said. The Powell station hits as high as 50% — on some weekends, when shoppers are coming downtown.

Other data shows downtown San Francisco is rebounding but is nowhere near pre-pandemic levels. San Francisco’s Downtown Community Benefit District saw just 42,000 unique workers in its district between January 1 and March 15. That's up from the 23,000 unique workers during that period a year-ago but far behind the 101,000 unique workers in 2020 or the almost 112,000 in 2019, according to the DowntownSF CBD, citing data from geolocation company Placer.ai. The DowntownSF CBD excludes Salesforce Tower and Embarcadero Center, two of the largest concentrations of office workers in downtown San Francisco.

Although Mayor Breed and business leaders made much fanfare of their call for a big return to work in early March, the Mayor’s Office had a more nuanced message this week.

“Downtown’s economic revival isn’t going to happen in one day or one month, but the major employers in San Francisco who joined the pledge are committed to the city’s economic success, and we’re going to continue to do everything we can to make downtown inviting to employees and appealing to employers,” Andy Lynch, a spokesperson in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, told me Wednesday. “This month is the start of a transition for many of them to either return full-time to the office or to a hybrid model, and we know that will be an ongoing process as companies work out what their policies will look like moving forward.

“We expect that some version of work-from-home policies will remain,” Lynch added.

Still, major players are now fleshing out the terms and specifics of a return-to-the office.

Visa and Uber are among the Bay Area companies asking employees to be in the office at least half the time, while Bank of America expects employees in the office five days a week.

“We’ve chosen a hybrid working model where most employees will spend at least half of their time in the office,” Uber said on March 22. Last summer, Uber indicated that employees will have more freedom to choose their preferred office location from a list of team hubs instead of being limited to their pre-pandemic location. Employees will also have flexibility in deciding when they work in the office.

“While we still believe in the value of in-person collaboration and the community that builds, we also value our employees having the choice to decide where they want to work while they’re not in the office,” Uber told employees last summer in the company’s return-to-office blog. “Our hope is that this provides a chance to spend more time with family, an opportunity to explore new places, and a refreshing change of scenery.”

Visa, which employs 500 at its One Market headquarters in downtown San Francisco, has set April 5 as the return-to-office date for its entire workforce.

“We believe that our best thinking and most innovative ideas come from in-person collaboration with each other,” Visa said. Visa will require that employees be in the office half the time, with attendance required on so-called collaboration days on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Visa is also allowing employees to work remotely for four weeks a year, but must take that time in full-week increments.

Then there’s Salesforce, which is embracing work from anywhere but still sees value in meeting in person.

“Generally, we’ve been seeing week-over-week increases with employees coming into the office,” said Salesforce spokesperson Brittany Hendrickson. For the week of March 14, Salesforce saw more than 2,500 people come into the office, more than 25% of the company’s San Francisco workforce. The prior week was about 20%.

Some of those working downtown say they see the early signs of a renaissance.

“I walk to work everyday, so I see the difference,” said Bank of America market president Gioia McCarthy, adding that she’s seeing more commuter traffic, taxis in front of the Fairmont and other hotels and a busier Montgomery Street at lunchtime. “There’s so much that comes from having a strong downtown.”

Robbie Silver, executive director of the DowntownSF CBD, was eager to tout this week the 70% increase in workers coming back between January and March, with pedestrian traffic along Montgomery Street more than doubling over the first three months of the year.

“It is a big worry for me when tech companies say to their workforce, ‘Go ahead and work from home forever.’ They’re dangerous words to the sustainability and economic health of the city and downtown,” Silver said.


Stupid virus policies have consequences.
257   Patrick   2022 Apr 2, 5:57pm  

Pretty sure that's right downtown on the Embarcadero. Things like that didn't used to happen there.
258   HeadSet   2022 Apr 2, 6:32pm  

Patrick says
Pretty sure that's right downtown on the Embarcadero. Things like that didn't used to happen there.

Enbarcadero is just where the rental return lot is. Those rental cars are returns that were damaged wherever in town they drove around in.
259   Patrick   2022 Apr 2, 6:33pm  

I don't think that's a lot in the photo. That's the waterfront. I used to bike along there every day on the way to work.
260   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2022 Apr 3, 6:36am  

Patrick says
I think this is Westfield Mall in SF.
Where are the enterprising men's clothing salespersons?
261   Patrick   2022 Apr 12, 6:50am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/progressives-cities-accommodate-lawlessness-sacramento/?source=patrick.net


Ashoot-out in downtown Sacramento, California, at two in the morning on Sunday, April 3 left six people dead and injured at least twelve. It might or might not have been gang warfare. The facts are still unfolding.

One of the shooters, Smiley Martin, twenty-seven, was out of jail on early release against the advice of the Sacramento county district attorney. “He poses a significant, unreasonable risk of safety to the community,” authorities said, opposing Martin’s release from state prison.

“Inmate Martin has, for his entire adult life, displayed a pattern of criminal behavior,” wrote Deputy District Attorney Danielle Abildgaard. “His history indicates that he will pursue his own personal agenda regardless of the consequences and regulatory restraints placed upon him.” Martin “has no respect for others, for law enforcement or for the law. If he is released early, he will continue to break the law,” prosecutors concluded.

In spite of dire warnings, the Board of Parole Hearings released Martin in February 2022 on account of time-served formulas used by the state department of corrections and wider pressure for decarceration.

A few weeks before, it was Asaahdi Elijah Coleman, twenty-one, also a documented menace. He opened fire as passengers exited a Los Angeles-bound Greyhound bus during a scheduled stop in Oroville, California. Karin Dalton, forty-three, with her two teenage kids on the way to a “new life” in New Mexico, died at the scene. Coleman wounded four others, then ran off into the night. He was arrested, naked, inside a Walmart after getting into a fight, according to the Associated Press.

Coleman had a warrant for his arrest on a firearm possessions charge and a probation violation out of Alameda County as well as an undisclosed juvenile record. ...

While outlaws and bandits come in all colors, a striking number of them are young and black. ...

Low-lives and bad apples of all ages and colors are now aware that the heat is off, that police tread gingerly out of self-interest and legal self-protection. As long as outlaws feel resisting arrest and menacing police is a constitutional right — or at least works — municipal lawlessness will escalate. ...

But the right-wingers that so bedevil Biden are usually armed defensively, worrying about threats to their liberty or confiscation of their fetishized guns. They are don’t-tread-on-me, and my-home-is-my-castle, perhaps with a garage full of canned goods, awaiting doomsday. Second Amendment absolutists might be far-out or obnoxious, but they rarely shoot up a crowd at two in the morning or a busload of innocent strangers in a fit of paranoia. If they do, the incident is amplified in behalf of the gun-violence narrative.


Can Nancy Pelosi, kneeling in her kente cloth, Merrick Garland, or the Northern California district court begin to help set things right? Can elected and legal mighties even imagine the harvest of sadness that their evasions and fictions have brought upon the innocent? The Karin Daltons are little people, struggling and invisible, of no political use to blue-state Democrats. They are riding the Greyhound, not on a personal jet somewhere in the skies between Georgetown and Pacific Heights. One-day news stories, their shattered lives disappear into the hole of progressive narrative.

Functional Americans across the political spectrum see governments and courts at all levels accommodating lawlessness. This can’t go on, they say, or can it? They behold a society hardened by distrust and predation, in the hands of highly partisan forces actively rearranging morality, abolishing civic standards, and deforming childhood.

Americans of all backgrounds are seeking safety, trust and civic order. They are walling themselves off from crazies and marauders, or trying, moving to safe havens, maybe across town, but if need be, to other states and regions. This normative pursuit has begun and might be accelerating. It is why law and order will be a potent political charm and rallying cry in this year’s elections nationwide.
263   Patrick   2022 Apr 15, 9:29am  

https://t.me/greatreject/34028?source=patrick.net


The current state of Seattle - Car in flames while man exposes himself peeing on the sidewalk.

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