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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   158,500 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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589   EBGuy   2023 Jun 12, 5:49pm  

And then they came for the malls...
Westfield is giving up its namesake San Francisco mall in the wake of Nordstrom’s planned closure, surrendering the city’s biggest shopping center to its lender after foot traffic and sales plunged during the pandemic.
The company stopped making payments on a $558 million loan, and Westfield and its partner, Brookfield Properties, started the process of transferring control of the mall at 865 Market St. this month.
590   Patrick   2023 Jun 12, 6:21pm  

https://www.bizjournals.com/


Westfield giving downtown San Francisco mall back to lender
By Ted Andersen and Alex Barreira
San Francisco Business Times
Jun 12, 2023

Westfield San Francisco Centre — the city's biggest shopping center — is headed back to its lender after the mall owners ceased making payments on a $558 million loan, the latest economic and symbolic blow for a downtown struggling to regain its footing after the pandemic.

The 1.2 million-square-foot mall at 865 Market St. near Union Square is owned jointly by the parent company of Westfield Corp., French conglomerate Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Brookfield Properties, which acquired its stake through its acquisition of Forest City.

“For more than 20 years, Westfield has proudly and successfully operated San Francisco Centre, investing significantly over that time in the vitality of the property,” the company said in a statement. “Given the challenging operating conditions in downtown San Francisco, which have led to declines in sales, occupancy and foot traffic, we have made the difficult decision to begin the process to transfer management of the shopping center to our lender to allow them to appoint a receiver to operate the property going forward.”


Some seriously rich people and organizations are being fucked over by the criminally Democratic policies of San Francisco, such as complete failure to prosecute crime or to even to attempt to stop the epidemic of shoplifting. Indeed, there is a proposed law which will make it illegal to even attempt to stop shoplifters.
591   richwicks   2023 Jun 12, 6:24pm  

Eric Holder says

I'm old enough to remember p.net members ranting agaist "the war on drugs". Now it seems like the mood has flipped 180.


@"Eric Holder" - The war on drugs is just a war on the CIA's competition. There is no war on drug use or distribution PROVIDED the government is doing it. It's a war on independent drug dealers.
592   richwicks   2023 Jun 12, 6:40pm  

HeadSet says

So, are you on the side of legalized fentanyl? Allow it to be manufactured domestically and sold cheap over the counter, so that those who deliberately inject themselves with it need not support murderous cartels? At worst these clowns will just die from fentanyl and be out of everyone's way.


@HeadSet You just don't understand. Our government was stopping shipments of IVERMECTIN - do you REALLY think they can't stop fentanyl?

It's the GOVERNMENT distributing fentanyl. Don't you remember Operation Fast and Furious? This was to arm the cartels the US government supports, against cartels they didn't. Noriega ring a bell? The cartel they were arming is our government's "chosen cartel".

THE REAL PROBLEM is that the population is TOTALLY ignorant that crime is done by our government. There's no drug problem in Japan, because Japan's government isn't in the business of drug distribution to fund black ops projects. Same with China, same with Singapore.

Consider our technology today, so you REALLY think we can't trace anything?

Look at how our government keeps saying "we're helpless!!" - NO THEY AREN'T. Every call is logged, every email is inspected. Border is wide open. Torture is legal now, just declare anybody a terrorist. Find a drug dealer working out of the system? You nab him, and torture him until you find a higher up.

Law enforcement is a fiction.

Gary Webb exposed this in Dark Alliance decades ago, and was killed for it. If you ONLY KNEW what was going on, if only everybody did. They just don't. They're worried that their "trans kid" can't get hormones or that their kid will be indoctrinated into LGBTQ+ bullshit. All this bullshit is just a distraction. They create problems, so you don't see THE problem. Our government is a collection of mafias from drug cartels, to weapons dealers.

We're shipping weapons over to Ukraine, KNOWING, these are being sold to terrorist groups. Our government purposely creates chaos and not only do you not know this, most people in "intelligence" don't know this. They are on a "need-to-know" basis. They don't "need to know", for example, who the weapons being sent to Ukraine are being sold to, but SOMEBODY in our government fucking knows. I mean, they can't put a GPS tag on a few systems? An AirTag perhaps?

What our incredible technology has exposed is that the government can TRIVIALLY solve problems, but pretends they can't.

You are told "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" - they only pretend to be fucking stupid. They're not stupid. I'm in a dangerous situation because I know they aren't stupid, and I'm not willing to be a criminal. It doesn't require inside secret information to know how corrupt and criminal the government is. You just have to know basic technology. You can use CONSUMER DEVICES to track the exact location of a weapons system now. You can make it possible that a weapons system can't POSSIBLY be used if the tracking system is removed.

They are just criminals, and if you can't see that, you can't fix it.
593   HeadSet   2023 Jun 12, 9:23pm  

@richwicks
What you say rings true. But no matter who the criminal is that supplies fentanyl, be it a China/cartel alliance or a China/CIA cooperative, the criminals would be powerless without the end user that buys that poison and deliberately puts it into his veins. Since the fentanyl junkie has no concern for the evil he is financing, I could not care less if he dies from an overdose.
594   richwicks   2023 Jun 12, 9:30pm  

HeadSet says


richwicks
What you say rings true. But no matter who the criminal is that supplies fentanyl, be it a China/cartel alliance or a China/CIA cooperative, the criminals would be powerless without the end user that buys that poison and deliberately puts it into his veins. Since the fentanyl junkie has no concern for the evil he is financing, I could not care less if he dies from an overdose.


China isn't a factor. The federal government could stop it. What does it matter if it's China or Mexican drug cartels? It's just an abstract entity.

HeadSet says


the criminals would be powerless without the end user that buys that poison and deliberately puts it into his veins.


If you can't stop criminals from using drugs, just legalize the drugs and let them overdose and die.

Instead, our government PRETENDS it's trying to help criminals stop using drugs. You want to do that? Find a drug user, and put them in isolation until they clean up - maybe a month.

But they don't do that, do they?

HeadSet says


Since the fentanyl junkie has no concern for the evil he is financing, I could not care less if he dies from an overdose.


Fine, then legalize it. It's cheaper then, they don't have to commit as many crimes to overdose, the only thing that changes is that it has better availability.

It's not like if fentanyl is legal, I'm going to go out and buy some.

If you want to solve the fucking problem, know what the problem is. Junkies are going to be junkies. Whose supplying it? When is the last time you heard of a drug gang being arrested? 30 years ago?

CIA is drug gang.

The drug war is over, the CIA won. They entirely control it.

It's so goddamned frustrating that people look at the tree instead of the forest. People DIED to show you the forest.
595   Eric Holder   2023 Jun 13, 1:02pm  

richwicks says


Eric Holder says

I'm old enough to remember p.net members ranting agaist "the war on drugs". Now it seems like the mood has flipped 180.

"Eric Holder" - The war on drugs is just a war on the CIA's competition. There is no war on drug use or distribution PROVIDED the government is doing it. It's a war on independent drug dealers.


All crazy talk aside (no, I'm not buying the "CIA is selling drugs to toddlers" thing) the fact that there is active anti-drug enforcement (which there is) does create a significant friction and raises the barrier to entry. Many people are deterred from doing something illegal by the mere fact of its illegality and the possibility of being caugh and spend a substantial time in prison. And a big portion of these not deterred do get removed from the streets. As a result availablity suffers and prices go up, which is the effect we want. Cand drugs still be obtained? Sure. But it's hard, dangerous and expensive.
596   richwicks   2023 Jun 13, 2:22pm  

Eric Holder says


All crazy talk aside (no, I'm not buying the "CIA is selling drugs to toddlers" thing)


Now that IS crazy. Don't strawman this issue. The CIA certainly sells drugs. That's what Dark Alliance was all about, and Gary Webb "committed suicide" by shooting himself in the head, TWICE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death

Don't minimize the criminality of your government. You have to face it.

Eric Holder says


the fact that there is active anti-drug enforcement (which there is) does create a significant friction and raises the barrier to entry.


Yes, but only to independent drug dealers. Not to government drug dealers.

The whole purpose of the "drug war" is to keep independent dealers from competing against the government. Think about this a little - Andy Dick gave Phil Hartman's wife cocaine, which led to a series of events that led to Brinn murdering Phil Hartman. You would THINK they would question Andy Dick and track down the drug dealer, don't you think?

But they didn't. Why not?

When is the last time you heard of a drug bust? It only happens to INDEPENDENT drug dealers. I'm begging you to PLEASE understand what you're up against.

Eric Holder says


As a result availablity suffers and prices go up, which is the effect we want.


DO we want this?

You want to reduce use, but do you want to raise costs? If you raise costs, and you have an addict on your hands, now you have a criminal.

Back in the 1980's I remember on "the news" - "There's a new drug on the street! And it's cheap and gets it users high for hours! It's called crack/XTC/meth/whatever" - this was an advertisement to junkies. They would go into detail about the effects of the drug, etc - it was just an advertisement. NORMAL people are like "oh my god! There's ANOTHER new drug!? Oh no!" and junkies were like "oh my god! There's ANOTHER new drug!? I'm gonna get me some!"

When I was in my early 30's I wanted to "understand the world" - now I do. All you have to do is look on everything with no compassion or sympathy at all, no ethics - then it's easy to understand. There are literally people in this world that push for war, because they make money off from it. They don't care people are killed, they have no stake in the outcome of the war, they just sell weapons.

When I was in college. to join this group of nerds, I was given the task of writing "the Purity Test" as a program - it's a test that asks very personal sexual questions and rates your "purity". So MY understanding of this was to just make this test run on a mainframe computer system, so users could, out of boredom, run it and see what their supposed "purity" was.

Well, this is how it was ACTUALLY used. People monitored the results of the answers, knew who ran it, and sought out people based on results.

Think of "how can I possibly abuse this situation?" - and there's somebody doing it.

Here - I found it: http://ricepuritytest.com/

Mine was modified to get even more personal. I remember some of the far more personal questions, but I'm not going to reveal them.
597   zzyzzx   2023 Jun 14, 4:51am  

Former Resident: Why San Francisco is on the brink of losing its unique culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jyOZnuzk4

Excellent video, and the commentary is priceless!
598   Patrick   2023 Jun 14, 9:32pm  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/cinemark-shutting-down-san-francisco-theater-citing-local/


Another week, another business shutting down in San Francisco.

Cinemark is shutting down their San Francisco location, effective immediately. The company cited ‘local business conditions’ as the reason for the closure, and we all know what that means, don’t we?

The city is on its way to becoming a retail desert. People are trying to avoid crime, homeless drug addicts and filth in the streets.
599   zzyzzx   2023 Jun 15, 5:50am  

I'm genuinely curious as to why people consider bums and winos to be a problem... Sure, they are an eye sore, but some of us actually enjoy yelling Get a job! at them as we ride past them on our bicycle.
600   Patrick   2023 Jun 15, 9:38am  

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/help-shelby-steeles-finish-white/comments


Shelby Steele and his son Eli were filming a documentary in San Francisco based on Steele’s book, White Guilt, when their car window was smashed and all of their camera equipment stolen. There is a Go Fund Me to help recover some of the costs but as of yet, they’ve only raised a small amount compared to how much they need. Here is their full post:

Today June 14 in San Francisco, while shooting their documentary WHITE GUILT, based on Shelby Steele's book of the same name, Eli and Shelby Steele's and fellow Oakland filmmaker Terrell Allen's film equipment was stolen out of a rental car in the middle of the day on Lombard Street.

The entire brazen act was captured on film. The Steeles called 911 but police did not respond to calls. Both 911 calls were hung up on. Eventually, they filed a police report. There is no hope of recovering their equipment.

Ironically the film explores how defunding the police has hurt society. Now, the filmmakers, themselves, have become victims of the very thing the film is about.


It would be yet more ironic to find out that the thieves are black.
601   zzyzzx   2023 Jun 16, 10:07am  

Comments are priceless:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-bids-farewell-san-francisco-140624531.html

AT&T Bids Farewell to San Francisco Flagship Store Amid Changing Consumer Habits

So Changing Consumer Habits is a euphemism for theft now.
605   Patrick   2023 Jun 17, 9:29am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-announces-that-due-to-crime-its-moving-to-texas




At publishing time, state officials in Texas were willing to discuss accepting San Francisco as a new city with the condition that it stop being super gay.
606   Misc   2023 Jun 17, 3:06pm  

I think the straw ban was the straw that broke the camel's back.
608   HeadSet   2023 Jun 17, 8:07pm  

Misc says

I think the straw ban was the straw that broke the camel's back.

That is a strawman argument...
609   Patrick   2023 Jun 18, 10:48am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12185831/Tourists-workers-shoppers-abandon-San-Francisco-leaving-homeless-drug-addled.html


EXCLUSIVE: Abandoned stores, streets overtaken by the homeless and drug-addled, theft so rampant that CANDY is locked away: Welcome to San Francisco's ghost town downtown
San Francisco tourism is down by 16% from pre-pandemic levels, workers have abandoned their offices to work from home and stores are empty
In their place, some 7,000 homeless have descended on downtown areas and tourist traps
Now hotels and stores are closing and the whole future of the Bay City – one of the most popular destinations in the United States – is under a cloud
610   Ceffer   2023 Jun 18, 11:55am  

Just arm the German tourists with Tommy Guns, and they will have the place cleaned out in no time.
611   Patrick   2023 Jun 19, 2:54pm  

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/pier-39-shooting-san-francisco-18159021.php


Gunfire erupted between two vehicles careening through San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf area near Pier 39 on Sunday evening, resulting in injury to six people, including four bystanders at the popular tourist destination, Police Chief William Scott said.

The bystanders injured in what Scott called a “car to car” shooting included a 10-year-old girl who was struck by one of the recklessly driven cars as she walked her bike across the street with a 16-year-old companion, the chief told reporters at the scene. Three others were hit by shards of glass that shattered in the gunfire exchange. None of the bystanders had life-threatening injuries, Scott said. The 16-year-old was struck but not injured. ...

Two people in the cars responsible for the gunshots also were wounded, one with life-threatening injuries, Scott said. They were taken to the hospital, as was the 10-year-old girl.

“Gunshots were fired from both vehicles,” Scott said, and police are looking for a white sedan and its occupants, who fled. The other vehicle was a black SUV that was towed from the scene.
612   Patrick   2023 Jun 20, 1:52pm  

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/westfield-mall-crime-safety-18150656.php


‘We urgently need to discuss Westfield’: Emails shed light on safety problems at downtown S.F. mall

... Weber wrote Feb. 9 that, in addition to the concerns raised by Claire’s, “I’m also hearing now from our center team that there were two incidents yesterday where people were held up by knife point at the center for theft.”


Robbed at knifepoint in the mall.
613   Patrick   2023 Jun 20, 1:54pm  

Lol, attempt to blame "tech bros" for SF's slide into hell gets corrected by the comments:

False claim:



Roasted by comments, lol:

@eade_bengard
I can’t pop into the city unless my car is completely empty bc these tech bros keep breaking my windows

@micsolana
i saw a tech bro take a shit in the street the other day. another tech bro, in a police officer’s uniform, simply watched.

@NielsHoven
Tech bros won’t even keep public transportation operational, what are they even doing

@FIav0r
Ya, everyone knows how involved tech is in policy there. Damn tech bros.

@EthereanMaximus
I do wonder if some of these people actually believe what they are saying or if it's just pure disingenuousness.
Imagine having that perspective and actually believing it. Holy hell.

@StockViking
hahaha, Timnit is the worst! She's the type of person that sees racism in everyone and every thing and blames white men for all the problems in the world. She is wretched!

And it's true, this Timnit dimwit is the very personification of insane leftism which is destroying San Francisco.
614   Patrick   2023 Jun 20, 6:45pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/read-this-unbelievable-account-of-how-thieves-in-san-francisco-are-breaking-into-every-car-they-can-get-their-hands-on



This is the unspoken secret about government/law enforcement.

Government is a gang, a gang which steals from you. But they gain legitimacy by deterring other thieves.

When the official government fails, other gangs step in to take its place. Gangs with more integrity than our current government.
615   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jun 20, 7:10pm  

Two biggest hotels going into foreclosure, and more to follow. Seems people don't even want to visit, let alone live in San Franshitsco.
616   RWSGFY   2023 Jun 20, 8:13pm  

They are talking now of converting downtiwn office buildings to apartments.For whom - people who refused to come to downtown offices for work?
617   AD   2023 Jun 20, 11:53pm  

Patrick says

When the official government fails, other gangs step in to take its place. Gangs with more integrity than our current government.


Anarcho Tyranny 101
618   AD   2023 Jun 20, 11:54pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12216335/San-Fran-supermarket-installs-metal-exit-gates-stop-shoplifters-raiding-groceries.html

California supermarket installs metal exit gates to stop frequent shoplifters from raiding groceries amid spiraling opioid-fueled crime that has caused stores and people to flee the region

A Safeway in Vallejo, California, recently installed metal emergency exit gates in front of one of the entrances to deter shoplifters

Some Safeway locations installed exit bars months ago, including large metal barriers across closed checkout lanes

Several large businesses, including Gap and AT&T, have pulled out of the downtown as crime spikes in the Bay Area
619   Patrick   2023 Jun 22, 4:50pm  

https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/san-francisco-walgreens-locked-up-shelves-ripped-off-by-thieves/


Stores from Safeway to Home Depot have been increasingly locking items behind screens to deter shoplifting in the Bay Area and across the country. Customers and staff in San Francisco stores recently described the security measures as irritating, with it taking several minutes to access basic items like toothbrushes or high-value items such as liquor and power tools.

Walgreens manager Chanh Luu said the group entered the Bernal Heights store at around 8 p.m. and began smashing the shelves in two of the store's aisles, where laundry soap and dental products are locked away behind plastic shields due to rampant shoplifting in the city. The shields were torn away so the thieves could get their hands on the items...


Lol, it's going to take more than those plastic screens.

Looters should always be shot on sight, as is traditional.
620   tomtomtom   2023 Jun 22, 8:49pm  

This is all legal in CA. Please stop complaining. That's what people voted for.
621   richwicks   2023 Jun 22, 9:23pm  

tomtomtom says

This is all legal in CA. Please stop complaining. That's what people voted for.


Sure, just like we voted for Biden..
622   AD   2023 Jun 22, 11:43pm  

Patrick says

Walgreens manager Chanh Luu said the group entered the Bernal Heights store at around 8 p.m. and began smashing the shelves in two of the store's aisles, where laundry soap and dental products are locked away behind plastic shields due to rampant shoplifting in the city. The shields were torn away so the thieves could get their hands on the items...


That's right Patrick, this is just a well-deserved lesson for Walgreens in thug perseverance and creativity.

All they do is now bring a hammer to break through the plastic shield.

Granted it takes a little longer to loot, but they are out of there at least 10 minutes before the police arrive.

.
623   richwicks   2023 Jun 23, 12:59am  

ad says

Granted it takes a little longer to loot, but they are out of there at least 10 minutes before the police arrive.


Haha - police don't show up.

What companies need to do is start appealing to the public. "We'd like to have a store here, but the current DA, Mayor, and Police won't enforce the law, so we can't afford to be in business here..."

They need to unite.

The public doesn't want this shit, the companies don't want this shit.
624   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2023 Jun 23, 4:26am  

richwicks says

The public doesn't want this shit,

And yet, somehow, they keep voting for the shit givers.
625   richwicks   2023 Jun 23, 6:22am  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

richwicks says


The public doesn't want this shit,

And yet, somehow, they keep voting for the shit givers.


Jesus, this stupid trust in the ballot box. It's infuriating.
626   stereotomy   2023 Jun 23, 9:46am  

It used to be just dead people voting. Now it's mass-printed anonymous "made up" ballots. Inflation eveywhere!
627   AD   2023 Jun 23, 10:39am  

richwicks says

The public doesn't want this shit, the companies don't want this shit.


Ha ha, the vast majority are too afraid to do anything and/or vote for the Democrats who promote this thug environment.

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628   Patrick   2023 Jun 24, 5:28pm  

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/san-francisco-a-city-undergoing-its


Everyone knows that San Francisco is the nation's largest public toilet - requiring the city to employ six-figure 'poop patrol' cleanup team, however a new report from the city Controller's Office really puts things in poo-spective.

For starters, feces were found far more often in commercial sectors, covering "approximately 50% of street segments in Key Commercial Areas and 30% in the Citywide survey," second only to broken glass as can be seen in the 'illegal dumping' section. ...

This is all even more heartbreaking, because San Francisco is one of the most naturally beautiful places on Earth. A city on the edge of the Pacific with the bay around it, and the endless waves of fog rolling above. ...

San Francisco has long been a left-leaning city, but this alone wasn't enough to create a policy environment that would lead to the city's downfall. The tipping point towards full-blown insanity in San Francisco's policy environment can be traced back to Proposition 47, a 2014 ballot measure that reduced penalties for certain nonviolent crimes, including shoplifting.

Proposition 47 changed the law so that stealing items worth less than $950 is now considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony. This means that offenders may receive lower fines, shorter jail sentences, or no jail time at all. Unfortunately, this leniency has led to increased shoplifting, as criminals believe they won't face serious consequences for their actions. In San Francisco, police often don't respond to reports of store robberies and instead, request that the store report the crime online. However, these reports are frequently not followed up on. ...

Proposition 47 essentially legalized small-scale retail crime, paving the way for more serious offenses. The action then shifted to the District Attorney's office for further implementation. ...

Proposition 47 was a clever strategy to attract criminals conducting retail and property crimes to the city and keep those already in the city out of jail. However, more serious criminals were still being locked up pending trial or sentenced to prison terms for serious crimes they had committed. This is where George Soros stepped in with the Open Societies Foundation to change the San Francisco District Attorney.

Soros backed Chesa Boudin, who was elected in 2019. Boudin has an interesting background, as both of his parents were actual terrorists in the Weather Underground Movement. ...

An apt comparison exists between this campaign and vaccination campaigns, in that coordinated propaganda can influence people to support insane measures. ...

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what would be the results of these policy decisions.

Here is one of the results - defaults of commercial real estate and hotels closing and leaving the city...

In other recent developments, California recently passed another law that criminalizes trying to prevent robbery or shoplifting as a “public safety” measure. Let’s guess what effect this will have on retailers who are dumb enough to still maintain presence in this bastion of wokeness.

National retailers such as Nordstrom, Crate & Barrel and H&M have closed San Francisco stores. Tech companies are putting their offices up for sublease; and the city’s commercial real estate, previously among the most valuable in the world, has started selling at huge discounts.

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