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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   158,373 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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498   AD   2023 Apr 17, 2:24pm  

Blue cities like San Fran and Portland are a magnet for this behavior.

So they just attract more people who engage in this behavior, and likely encourage their mental condition to further worsen.

A lot of this is due to the non profits who get grant money to help the local homeless; they enable these circumstances.

I think a lot of this is by design as they export disenfranchised Democrats to purple states like Arizona.

The remaining are not going to stop voting liberal Democrat. Look at how Chicago voted for mayor recently. That is how the cancer of Woke anarcho tyranny spreads.

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499   AD   2023 Apr 17, 2:26pm  

I am sure the owners of Tik Tok, which are broadcasting this video, are happy to see this as the general state of affairs in the United States.
500   richwicks   2023 Apr 17, 2:36pm  

ad says

The remaining are not going to stop voting liberal Democrat. Look at how Chicago voted for mayor recently.


Why do people insist that this is what people are voting for, when we can't verify the vote?

Please stop reinforcing the illusion these people were elected. It's likely they were not.
501   AD   2023 Apr 17, 3:44pm  

richwicks says

Why do people insist that this is what people are voting for, when we can't verify the vote?

Please stop reinforcing the illusion these people were elected. It's likely they were not.


So you think that the recent Chicago mayor election was a fraud ?

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503   richwicks   2023 Apr 17, 4:01pm  

ad says

So you think that the recent Chicago mayor election was a fraud ?


I think the selection process of who is allowed to run as Chicago mayor is a fraud.

Look, I know the selection process is fraudulent for president. I've been at a straw poll where they just cancelled the vote because it wasn't going to go their way. Fred Thompson was their pick, and that was that.

If the two candidates that are allowed to run are identical, they don't care who wins. This is why Trump was such a problem, he wasn't Mitt Romney, nor was he Jeb Bush. Clinton did not win the DNC primary in 2016, Bernie Sanders did. I don't care if you dislike Sanders, he won.

If it was Clinton versus Jeb Bush in 2016, it would have just been same old same old. How does the Bush family make their money, or Clinton? At least John Kerry married into the Hunts ketchup fortune. How do the Biden's make their money? These are simple questions, and it's so fucking frustrating to think "oh, they'll cheat rob and steal, but they would steal an election!" - sure they would. They have a whole set of drones that will kill you or me at a drop of a hat.

You know why the suicide rate is so high among police officers? Not all of them are psychopaths, but that's what the job is selecting for. Same with military. They get fooled into "serving their nation", and over time, they realize they're just thugs, hired goons. They don't know they are signing up for, but if you're a psychopath, hey, great job, you can climb up.
504   AmericanKulak   2023 Apr 17, 9:15pm  

Not SFBA, but Portland, OR: REI to close their only Portland Store due to massive theft.

https://thepostmillennial.com/outdoor-retailer-rei-closing-sole-portland-store-amid-rampant-theft
505   REpro   2023 Apr 18, 6:12pm  

San Francisco Mayor and other Democrats just enjoy homelessness.

Whenever they see tents on streets or step into shit, makes them pride that they can control people.
507   HeadSet   2023 Apr 21, 12:17pm  

What are we seeing at the BART Civic Center above?
508   Robert Sproul   2023 Apr 21, 5:21pm  

The Totalitarian Left is making progress on their goal of degrading the civil society until they accept martial law.
"California state police and the California National Guard will start a new partnership with local law enforcement agencies to disrupt fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco in the wake of city officials asking for state and federal help cracking down on open-air drug dealing."
The Posse Comitatus Act has been rolled back over the last decades until now we can have military intelligence and enforcement of civilian police actions, setting the stage for a cop to knock on your door with a 1/2 dozen soldiers behind him.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-fentanyl-drug-crisis-sf-breed-tenderloin-17911401.php
509   Patrick   2023 Apr 22, 4:22pm  

https://abc7news.com/sf-car-break-ins-crime-news-indonesia-viral-video-san-francisco-tourism/13160425/


SF Whole Foods garage break-in video goes viral in Indonesia; experts fear long-lasting consequences


There should be long-lasting consequences to such despicable mismanagement of San Francisco by violent far-left Democrats.
510   AD   2023 Apr 22, 5:36pm  

Robert Sproul says

The Totalitarian Left is making progress on their goal of degrading the civil society until they accept martial law.


Yes, its part of anarcho tyranny. Also they are implementing Cloward Piven.

Its all about conditioning the population to the point the population begs for complete government control over their lives.

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511   AD   2023 Apr 22, 6:32pm  

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https://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-launches-vacant-to-vibrant-program-calling-for-ideas-to-turn-office-space-into-pop-up-shops

San Francisco wants to turn vacant retail space into vibrant pop-ups. San Francisco is rolling out a new program that would turn vacant storefronts into vibrant pop-up shops. The pop-ups would be temporary and receive up to three-months free rent.

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512   RayAmerica   2023 Apr 22, 8:18pm  

A city being governed by radical, leftist loonies does seem to have its consequences.

Gavin Newsom Calls In National Guard To San Francisco: “Increasing law enforcement presence to improve public safety and public confidence in San Francisco.

California Governor Gavin Newsom called in the National Guard to help clean up San Francisco in a shocking turn of events. Newsom announced a new partnership with the California Highway Patrol (CHP), California National Guard (CalGuard), San Francisco Police Department (SFPD), and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office (SFDA) to deal with the fentanyl crisis.

Newsom said the agreement between all four agencies will focus on “dismantling fentanyl trafficking and disrupting the supply of the deadly drug in the city by holding the operators of large-scale drug trafficking operations accountable.”

He continued: “Two truths can coexist at the same time: San Francisco’s violent crime rate is below comparably sized cities like Jacksonville and Fort Worth—and there is also more we must do to address public safety concerns, especially the fentanyl crisis.

https://slaynews.com/news/gavin-newsom-calls-in-national-guard-to-san-francisco-increasing-law-enforcement-presence-to-improve-public-safety-and-public-confidence-in-san-francisco/
513   Ceffer   2023 Apr 22, 10:15pm  

The only thing I can figure is that Newsom wants to wipe out the fentanyl dealers who are competing with him and his friends/family. Remember, his Aunt Nancy is the daughter of a mafia heroin lord. He doesn't give a flat shit about the homeless, they are loyal customers.

Marshaling civic and government resources to take out your drug dealing competition has always been part of the Rockefeller and CIA ethic. 'War on Drugs' generally translates into 'War on Competitors' so we have the sales monopoly and control and all the profits. Some of those cartel invaders must be scooping up too many proceeds, time to show them whose boss.
514   WookieMan   2023 Apr 23, 6:32am  

RayAmerica says

San Francisco’s violent crime rate is below comparably sized cities like Jacksonville and Fort Worth—and there is also more we must do to address public safety concerns, especially the fentanyl crisis.

Having visited both Jacksonville and SF. This is unequivocally false. If you rob someone in Jacksonville you WILL get arrested. I'm almost certain the SF cops don't do anything because they just know it's paperwork and the prosecutor isn't going to charge them. What's the point.

Mind you Jacksonville has a ghetto edge to it, but I didn't feel unsafe in any area like I would in Chicago. SF just doesn't have the stats because it's not worth LEO's time to do anything, unless it's truly violent crime like someone physically being beaten on the street, shot or stabbed. Take $600 of merchandise though and you're all good....
515   RayAmerica   2023 Apr 23, 7:00am  

Wookieman,

I didn't make that bogus claim, Gavin Newsom did.
516   WookieMan   2023 Apr 23, 7:05am  

RayAmerica says

Wookieman,

I didn't make that bogus claim, Gavin Newsom did.

I know. I was just stating what you likely know that crime stats in SF are probably grossly underreported or nothing is even done. I know it wasn't you making that claim. Just saw it and was calling bullshit on Newsom and not you.
518   AD   2023 Apr 24, 11:35pm  

San Fran is on the far right of the scale along with Democrat shitholes like Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland and Seattle.

Just one set of data to show the drop off of economic activity in these shitholes as less people are working and/or spending money there. I suspect tourism has dropped off significantly in San Fran as well.

Las Vegas is around 80% and San Diego is 99%, as well as Washington DC is at 73% as Biden is expected to push federal agencies to have their civil servants return to the office.
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519   AD   2023 Apr 25, 11:26am  

San Fran's First Republic Bank down 40% today. I may buy it if it drops another 10% from today's low within next 7 days.

Also Gap which is HQ in San Fran is laying off people: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/04/25/2023-layoff-tracker-gap-plans-to-lay-off-hundreds-while-3m-cuts-6000

So more dismal news for San Fran companies which may reduce corporate headcount there, and further weaken the San Fran economy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/04/25/2023-layoff-tracker-gap-plans-to-lay-off-hundreds-while-3m-cuts-6000

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520   Patrick   2023 Apr 26, 10:12am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12015967/San-Fran-DROPS-charges-against-vagrant-bashed-ex-fire-commissioner-head-crowbar.html


San Francisco DA DROPS charges against vagrant who repeatedly bashed city's ex-fire commissioner in the head with a metal crowbar - and now 'plans to prosecute the victim for deploying pepper spray'
Don Carmignani, 53, was left fighting for his life after being brutally attacked on April 12 by homeless Garrett Doty
The former fire chief claims that he had to 'take matters into his own hands' after his mothers' 911 calls were not responded to
He was informed by his attorneys that DA Brooke Jenkins is planning on bringing charges against him for carrying pepper spray
521   RayAmerica   2023 Apr 26, 12:42pm  

Can anyone name a city that is run by Democrats that is safe and thriving? I'm stumped. I can't think of a single one.
522   zzyzzx   2023 Apr 27, 6:56am  

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/0dcaaa05-3b16-3363-8aea-26bb72a898b4/fire-sale-300-million-san.html

Fire Sale: $300 Million San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty. Open to Offers.
523   RWSGFY   2023 Apr 27, 7:52am  

ad says

San Fran is on the far right of the scale along with Democrat shitholes like Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland and Seattle.

Just one set of data to show the drop off of economic activity in these shitholes as less people are working and/or spending money there. I suspect tourism has dropped off significantly in San Fran as well.

Las Vegas is around 80% and San Diego is 99%, as well as Washington DC is at 73% as Biden is expected to push federal agencies to have their civil servants return to the office.
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San Diego? Weird, because it has hordes of bums almost rivaling these of SF's.
524   Patrick   2023 Apr 28, 8:45pm  

https://sfstandard.com/arts-culture/san-francisco-downtown-food-hall-has-no-customers/


Just a few blocks from San Francisco City Hall, the aroma of an international feast filled La Cocina’s Municipal Marketplace on a sunny spring afternoon as a team of chefs plated dishes from Algeria, El Salvador, Mexico, Nepal and the Deep South.

Judging by the delicious food alone, all was going according to plan at the women-led marketplace, which was established at great expense with taxpayer money and private donations in San Francisco’s struggling Tenderloin neighborhood. ...

With its vividly painted exterior and remarkable culinary offerings, the marketplace appears to be a positive presence in a building that formerly was a defunct post office. Yet, the lasting impacts of the pandemic, a looming recession and the spiraling fentanyl crisis have continued to plague the Tenderloin. ...

La Cocina's Municipal Marketplace was made possible by $2.2 million from the city, $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and more than $2 million from philanthropic foundations and individual donations. When it was first developed, the 7,000-square-foot food hall attracted not only local attention but also coverage in national outlets like Forbes. ...

Bahloul told The Standard he feels that his family and the other business owners in the marketplace are still dealing with the aftereffects of the pandemic.

“Nothing is going the way it’s supposed to,” he said. “I can’t make a profit.” ...

Bahloul noted that the daily “rush” only lasts from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and the marketplace is closed on weekends. Since many people don’t feel safe visiting the neighborhood after dark, dinner is not a viable path to profitability.

“No one wants to hang out in the Tenderloin,” he said. “Tourists stumble upon it and follow their GPS thinking it’ll get better, but it doesn’t.”

“It’s a great concept, but people are afraid to come down here,” said Damian Morffet, who manages security at the marketplace. He said that minutes earlier, he cleared the corner of people using fentanyl—a task he’s been faced with every day over the three years he’s worked at the marketplace. ...

On Sept. 1, 2022, during dinner service at the marketplace, chef Estrella Gonzalez said she had a feeling something was wrong. While working behind the counter at her Salvadoran food stall, Estrellita’s Snacks, she realized a man had been in the restroom for about three hours.

Gonzalez said she alerted La Cocina’s security team, who accessed the restroom and found that the man was unconscious. Gonzalez said the paramedics spent about half an hour with the man before pulling him out of the bathroom. She was later told by a security guard that he had died from an overdose.

“It was very bad to experience,” she told her son Angel, who translated for The Standard. “We had to tell the customers that were waiting for their orders that we had an emergency and needed to close the building.” ...

Landa said the man’s death and similar incidents have catalyzed a number of changes to the marketplace’s safety policies. La Cocina has limited access to the building, so now there’s one entrance and exit that’s staffed by a security guard at all times. Landa said her team has hosted Narcan trainings to reverse overdoses before they become fatal. Still, she said it’s difficult to create an open and inclusive space while taking safety considerations seriously. ...


Chronic Democrat mismanagement and plandemic cheerleading run smack into reality.
525   Patrick   2023 Apr 29, 5:17pm  

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/safeway-oakland-hostile-anti-theft-measures-17920035.php


When SFGATE visited the store earlier this month, reporters found that formula wasn’t the only necessity behind bars, either. Gallons of detergent like Tide and Gain were shielded behind sliding plastic doors that loudly screeched whenever you pulled them aside. Other basics like batteries and razors were locked away, too. The hard liquor was also behind a massive glass case, along with the store’s arguably more “top-shelf” wines.

Safeway representatives declined to say how many stores in the Bay Area have these new barricades and receipt scanners, but asserted that they’re necessary to “curtail escalating theft” and provide a “welcoming” environment for the community.

“Rampant shoplifting continues to be on the rise at alarming levels at retailers across the Bay Area,” the company said in a written statement. “We have increased our investments in security measures in stores throughout the region to help combat this ongoing issue. Those updates include operational changes to the front end of select stores to deter shoplifting.”


This is necessary and inevitable when the most fundamental laws against STEALING are not enforced in any way.
526   AD   2023 Apr 29, 8:15pm  

RWSGFY says

San Diego? Weird, because it has hordes of bums almost rivaling these of SF's.


I'm thinking tourism is such a boom in San Diego that it recovered, and likely has more tourism to compensate for a drop in some downtown businesses allowing work from home (in other states).

But I don't read or hear as much bad news about homelessness in San Diego as I do in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

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528   WookieMan   2023 Apr 30, 12:46pm  

ad says

RWSGFY says


San Diego? Weird, because it has hordes of bums almost rivaling these of SF's.


I'm thinking tourism is such a boom in San Diego that it recovered, and likely has more tourism to compensate for a drop in some downtown businesses allowing work from home (in other states).

But I don't read or hear as much bad news about homelessness in San Diego as I do in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

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Last time I was there about 5 years ago it was off putting, but not overwhelming with the homelessness. You see it, but in no ways was it ever aggressive. The city was clean and there weren't tents all over the place that I could see or areas I went to. My city experience was amongst black and Mexicans carrying guns and selling drugs on the corner on the South and West sides of Chicago. Homeless people were a very minor annoyance.

It's a long weekend, things could change, but officially booked for San Diego 8/24-8/28. Sat. 8/26 we're golfing Torrey Pines, so I'm out for anything that day. Sunday might be my only free day. I could extend to 8/30, but new job may interfere with that. We'll see. There's time and hotel is booked through the 30th through the wife's work.
529   Patrick   2023 May 2, 8:03pm  

https://www.bizjournals.com/


Nordstrom closing downtown San Francisco department store

The Westfield San Francisco Centre, located downtown at 865 Market St., where Nordstrom is closing its 300,000-square-foot department store.

Alex Barreira

Retail giant Nordstrom plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August, citing changing dynamics downtown, the company told the Business Times exclusively.

The Seattle company will also close its 45,496-square-foot Nordstrom Rack store across the street at 901 Market St. on July 1, ending a 35-year presence in downtown San Francisco. The closures come as both leases approach the end of their current terms with the option for renewal.

"Decisions like this are never easy, and this one has been especially difficult," wrote Jamie Nordstrom, the company's chief stores officer, in a message to impacted employees. "But as many of you know, the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully."


It was the profoundly stupid, suicidal compliance with the the fraudulent plandemic that caused this. And San Francisco was at the forefront of that lunacy. It deserves to sink into the mire until sanity returns. You will know things have started to take a turn for the better when Columbus is reinstated in his rightful place on Telegraph Hill.
530   Patrick   2023 May 4, 3:42pm  

https://www.leefang.com/p/police-tell-san-francisco-homeowner?publication_id=1239256&post_id=119188625&isFreemail=true


Police Tell San Francisco Homeowner To Hire Private Security After Suffering 8 Break-Ins

The rise in property crime has rattled neighborhoods across the city. ...

The last incident, a brazen intrusion by a man who entered the house by breaking into the front door, happened in broad daylight last Saturday morning. He appeared to be armed, though he fled once confronted by a worker, and left the scene in a white BMW driven by someone who accompanied him to the house.

In another incident in March, intruders arrived with two vehicles and ransacked the home, breaking windows and a downstairs door. They fled with construction tools, equipment, and appliances, including a washer and dryer.

Police have told Cook that they simply won’t investigate these types of crimes, according to Cook. After repeatedly calling the San Francisco Police Department to report the thefts with little to show for his efforts, an officer told Cook after Saturday’s break-in that he would have better luck hiring private security guards.
531   Ceffer   2023 May 4, 3:51pm  

Two masked individuals (innominates??) stab a man to death in an apartment complex in the middle of Pleasanton. Yeah, it's habbening, the thug bicycle surveillance crews are out and about, and local blogs are increasingly violence, burglary and crime reports.
https://patch.com/california/pleasanton/man-stabbed-death-pleasanton-2-suspects-large
532   EBGuy   2023 May 4, 4:56pm  

It does seem like we may be entering the vigilantism stage of lawlessness. The subway chokehold death in NYC seems like a Bernard Goetz type moment.
Meanwhile in Baghdad by the Bay...
SF Walgreens Security Guard Freed From Jail; DA Won’t Pursue Murder Charge in Shooting
Days after a man was shot and killed at a Downtown San Francisco Walgreens, the private security guard arrested on suspicion of murder in the case has been released from jail and the district attorney said she would not pursue a murder charge against the guard.
Security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, 33, was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder Friday for allegedly shooting and killing Banko Brown, 24, on Thursday evening. Police have said the incident involved shoplifting.
534   richwicks   2023 May 4, 10:06pm  

AmericanKulak says

Nordstrom closing SF Locations.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/after-nordstrom-closures-s-f-stop-retail-exodus-18074794.php


The headline is hilarious:


After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?


To stop the exodus, enforce the law.

Like it's such a difficult hard to grasp solution to a complex mysterious problem.
535   Patrick   2023 May 8, 1:19pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/transportation-monday-may-8-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=120047644&isFreemail=true


You might remember Brooke Jenkins, San Fransisco’s replacement District Attorney, after woke S.F. citizens recalled Jenkins’ useless Soros-funded predecessor, Chesa Boudin (if that’s his real name).

Jenkins seems to have gotten the message.

Michael Anthony, 33, is a security guard at a downtown San Fransisco Walgreens. On April 27th, officers responded to a report of a shooting at his Walgreens and found a victim, later identified as Banko Brown, who had been shot and killed.

Brown was a homeless “trans man” (a biological woman) of color. Security guard Anthony was briefly arrested for homicide. ...

In a statement last Monday, District Attorney Jenkins said that charges were dropped because prosecutors could not prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the guard was guilty of a crime after they reviewed statements from witnesses and the guard, along with video footage of the April 27 episode at a store on Market Street. ...

What we do know about the video is that it apparently shows that homeless Banko — I know you’re going to find this hard to believe — probably assaulted Mr. Anthony after being stopped for shoplifting. But Ms. Jenkins said in a statement, “This was a shoplifting that, really, based on the facts, turned into and escalated into a robbery, and the armed security guard did, ultimately, end up using lethal force. The evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense.”

Ms. Jenkins called the Brown’s killing a “tragedy,” but said, “We cannot bring forward charges when there is credible evidence of reasonable self-defense. Doing so would be unethical and create false hope for a successful prosecution.”

What we don’t know is whether Banko was hopped up on free, City-provided testosterone. I’d give it even odds.


A tiny bit of good news out of SF.
536   Patrick   2023 May 8, 1:22pm  

richwicks says

The headline is hilarious:

After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?

To stop the exodus, enforce the law.

Like it's such a difficult hard to grasp solution to a complex mysterious problem.


https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/transportation-monday-may-8-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=120047644&isFreemail=true


In an email last Tuesday, Nordstrom’s chief retail officer explained to employees that “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”

Haha, the “dynamics” of downtown, that’s a good one. He means like the exciting “dynamic” situation when a homeless lunatic like Banko Brown suddenly and unexpectedly assaults you in broad daylight for no reason.

The Westfield mall’s owner was more blunt and less politically correct. His statement said the Nordstroms’ closure “underscores the deteriorating situation in Downtown San Francisco.” It explained, without mincing words, “a growing number of retailers and businesses are leaving the area due to the unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues are preventing an economic recovery of the area.” ...

Meanwhile, billionaires like Peter Thiel are complaining that Florida’s booming real estate is too expensive. What could the difference be?

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