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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   158,166 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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1009   AmericanKulak   2024 Jul 9, 11:49pm  




Attacks on Asian Old Ladies not racist, despite characteristics of the perps, sez LDHDTV+ Police Captain of Oakland.

https://x.com/activeasian/status/1810742739711185310
1010   Ceffer   2024 Jul 13, 1:00pm  

Definitely S. Clay Wilson grade inspiration.



1013   Ceffer   2024 Jul 15, 4:35pm  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says





Newsom has armed the recent illegal army with nets and tranquilizer guns to bring down fleeing Californians and force them back. Nothing worse than a bunch of fleabit U-Hauls in nets.

They already have propositions for taxing Californians FOR LEAVING.
1014   AD   2024 Jul 23, 11:56pm  



1015   AD   2024 Aug 16, 1:19pm  



1016   HeadSet   2024 Aug 16, 1:36pm  

AD says





It seems that restaurants in that area would just charge when the waiter takes the order. After all, one pays upon order at McDs and the like before the food is delivered.
1017   mell   2024 Aug 16, 1:40pm  

HeadSet says

AD says






It seems that restaurants in that area would just charge when the waiter takes the order. After all, one pays upon order at McDs and the like before the food is delivered.

Been to that Dennys a few late late nights back in the days
1018   Patrick   2024 Aug 26, 9:14am  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/as-businesses-flee-sf-city-cheers-musk-exit/


Things are going great in San Francisco.

A recent study from The San Francisco Standard shows that from 2019 to May 2023, San Francisco witnessed a sharp decline in its retail landscape. In Union Square alone, the number of operating stores decreased from 207 to a mere 107 and now has a shocking 47% vacancy rate.

In addition to the shocking data on retail closures, San Francisco is also grappling with an unprecedented office vacancy crisis. The San Francisco Chronicle states that there are approximately 18.4 square feet of empty office space – representing one of the most severe vacancies ever recorded in the city.

The amount of vacant office space in SF was listed as being at 30 million square feet. So obviously local officials are cheering on Elon Musk’s announcement that Twitter will be leaving the city.

“I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance,” said City Attorney David Chiu, who as a member of the city’s Board of Supervisors backed the tax break that lured Twitter to Mid-Market in 2012.

It’s all about the politics.

Twitter was welcome when it was leftist. Now that it’s more libertarian, it’s unwelcome.

Do most San Franciscans want fewer tax revenues? According to Chiu they do.
1019   stereotomy   2024 Aug 26, 9:33am  

Commercial real estate prices crash -> globohomo oligarchs buy it up for pennies on the dollar. This is the global version of white flight from the smallholders in the major US cities in the 1960s/70s.
1020   Ceffer   2024 Aug 26, 10:42am  

Bankrupt and harvest. Want cheap real estate or business property?

Cities are extremely sensitive to finely honed services and chronically inundated with the Hun unemployed and homeless.

DEW redevelopment in the wider suburbs, or destructive fools elected into positions in the cities. The infrastructure is still there for the new owners who buy cheap, and they just have to vanquish their installed incompetents. It's piracy by another name, circling like wolves to board the ship and take it over.
1021   Patrick   2024 Sep 1, 9:34pm  

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/you-have-free-will-god-made-it-so


How Does This Explain the Decline of San Francisco?

The upside of the story of San Francisco is that everyone finally agrees that the city has imploded. Much of the blame can be placed on the concept that there is no free will.




Map of Homeless Encampments in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco




Current View On Larkin in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco

For the past decade, all government policy in San Francisco has centered around the concept of social justice, which preaches that all human outcomes are the function of race and the environment. As a result, the policies are directed at compensating for the effects of race and environment while placing no responsibility on individuals for their behavior or outcomes. This, of course, leads to an environment where no personal accountability is expected, and chaos ensues. In examining these tangible consequences in San Francisco, we can clearly demonstrate that Sapolsky is wrong.

Crime Increase Dramatically When Punishments are Removed

The policy decision to not prosecute shoplifting of goods valued at less than $950 in San Francisco, and more broadly in California, stems from the passage of Proposition 47 in 2014. Proposition 47, formally known as the "Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act." The Act reclassified certain offenses from felonies to misdemeanors. This reclassification included shoplifting, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed $950. Even though most stores in San Francisco stopped reporting shoplifting to the police, the official rate for shoplifting increased by 40% between 2012 and 2022. In reality, the rates have exploded to a degree that over half of all retail stores in San Francisco have had to close as they cannot operate profitability in an environment where the product walks out the door every day.




Group of Women Running out of CVS without Paying (Corner of Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street)

The core tenant of the Act was that shoplifting was a crime of necessity and people should not be punished for it. After the passage of the Act, criminal gangs moved in to recruit people to steal large volumes of products to resell them on the Internet. Clearly, the Act created a high incentive to commit crimes as there were no repercussions. People of free will reacted and went on a crime spree because they could.

Homelessness Explodes as Living on the Streets Is Supported

San Francisco has always had a marginal homeless problem. However, it had not previously been catastrophic. Legal frameworks in San Francisco, influenced by the Martin v. Boise decision by the 9th Circuit Court, stipulated that cities cannot prosecute homeless individuals for sleeping on the streets if there is insufficient shelter available. Additionally, homeless individuals cannot be prevented from sitting, lying, or sleeping on public property, and property owned by homeless individuals strewn along the streets cannot be touched. Essentially, in this framework, the responsibility for securing housing was shifted from the individual to the state. And if that housing was not provided, a homeless person could stake a claim to public property in the center of a city that once had attracted tourists from all over the world. By removing personal responsibility, homelessness skyrocketed. If there are no repercussions for sleeping in the streets and using drugs, there will be more people doing it.

Drug Use Skyrockets as Free Crack Pipes Are Handed Out

San Francisco's approach to drug use emphasizes harm reduction over prevention and treatment. Specifically, the harm reduction programs have included handing out needles and crack pipes and encouraging the use of drugs in a group setting. Additionally, there have been efforts to decriminalize and destigmatize drug use. It is not shocking that this has not worked.




The Role of Free Will in Shaping Policies

The assumption that individuals lack free will can influence policy in ways that catastrophically perpetuate the problems they aim to solve. Policies that overemphasize the deterministic nature of human behavior risk neglecting the importance of personal responsibility and the potential for change. If we want normality to return to San Francisco, we must recognize the importance of free will, morality, and personal responsibility.
1022   Ceffer   2024 Sep 2, 7:53am  

We see the seepage of the crime subsidy laws (basically endorsing shop lifting) into Tri Valley through the local blog, which gradually included editorial ongoing crime reports rather than just a place for grousing about traffic, garage sales and missing cats.

So, finally, a group of masked ferals invaded the Apple store at Stoneridge Mall the other day. They will eventually drive the mall out of business, because malls with BART terminals near by become their roosting places. They come, they riot, they rob, and they boost shit back to the ghetto areas and chop shops. The paying customers are frightened off and stay away.
1023   Patrick   2024 Sep 3, 11:00am  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/sports/san-francisco-49ers-wr-ricky-pearsall-on-non-football-injury-list-after-shooting-5717241


San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was placed on the reserve/non-football injury list after he was shot in the chest during a robbery attempt in the city’s popular Union Square area.

The 23-year-old rookie was released from San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Sept. 1 after being listed in fair condition, according to a statement from the team. NFL rules state that a player placed on the reserve/non-football injury list must miss a minimum of four games, but the timeline for Pearsall’s return to the team is still uncertain.

Pearsall was walking alone carrying shopping bags to his car shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 31 when a 17-year-old suspect attempted to rob him with a gun on Geary Street and Grant Avenue, police said. A physical altercation between Pearsall and the suspect ensued during the attempted robbery, and both were injured when gunfire from the suspect’s firearm was discharged.
San Francisco police officers rendered aid and medics transported both subjects to a local hospital for further medical evaluation. Pearsall is lucky to be alive after the ordeal, according to his mother Erin Pearsall.


I know that corner, Geary and Grant. It's really high-end. Used to be anyway.
1024   RC2006   2024 Sep 3, 12:41pm  

No description of suspect says it all.
1026   Blue   2024 Sep 19, 11:13pm  

https://indiacurrents.com/robbery-indian-american-jewelry-store-png-sunnyvale-five-suspects-in-custody/
These robberies must have been planned when 30 robbers entered the store.
It’s not a good environment for business to continue and thrive.
1027   RayAmerica   2024 Oct 5, 10:41am  

And now this ...

Full Societal Collapse: San Fran Now Overrun With "Invasive 20 Pound Rodent" Infestation



First comes the tech boom, then comes the liberal politicians increasingly radical policies. Then comes the theft, looting and massive homeless drug problem which the city is incapable of fixing, and that ultimately destroys then the city.

Then comes the massive, invasive 20 pound rodents.

This is the stage San Francisco sees itself at now: dealing with a massive rodent problem.

Nearly a thousand nutria have been hunted in the Bay Area this year, but sightings show the invasive 2.5-foot-long rodents have now spread to Contra Costa County, threatening a key watershed, according to a new report from SF Gate. Wildlife officials are urging the public to report any sightings.

Krysten Kellum, spokesperson for California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Matthew Slattengren, Contra Costa County agriculture commissioner, confirmed the discovery in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The rodents pose a serious threat as they burrow through wetland habitats, damage crops, and can weaken levees, risking failure in a region that supplies water to cities and farms statewide.

The SF Gate report says that nutria can produce up to 200 offspring annually and consume up to 25% of their body weight daily, but destroy up to 10 times more, threatening endangered species and native plants. They also carry diseases like tuberculosis, septicemia, and parasites that can infect humans, pets, and livestock.

Since their first sighting in Merced County in 2017, over 5,000 nutria have been killed in California. Their spread into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta prompted officials to ramp up control efforts to protect the ecosystem.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Peter Tira commented: “We cannot have nutria reproducing in the delta. The threat to California’s economy is too great.”

The first nutria were spotted in Contra Costa County last year, and two were captured on Aug. 15 near Dutch Slough. Their origin and how far they’ve spread remain unclear.

Krysten Kellum, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Bay Delta Region, added: “We have had additional detections of nutria on camera in that area over the last month, but with no additional captures.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/full-societal-collapse-san-fran-now-overrun-invasive-20-pound-rodent-infestation
1028   Ceffer   2024 Oct 5, 12:44pm  

Nothing worse than a Nutra with a Jesuit credit card.
1029   HeadSet   2024 Oct 5, 6:03pm  

RayAmerica says

Nearly a thousand nutria have been hunted in the Bay Area this year

Nutria have been a problem on Virginia's Eastern Shore peninsula for over a decade.
1030   Misc   2024 Oct 5, 11:19pm  

Nothing that a few thousand Hattians can't cure, and they will help out with the homeless problem as an added benefit.
1031   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2024 Oct 6, 11:56am  

HeadSet says


Nutria have been a problem on Virginia's Eastern Shore peninsula for over a decade.


They were infesting the Rio Grande at least 30 years ago. I tried to catch one by hand during an ecology trip. Each team of 3 split into the plant person, insect person and animal person for grades and I was the animal catcher. I'm glad it got away actually as they have some gnarly teeth.

I was armed with a heavy duty butterfly net!
1033   Patrick   2024 Nov 8, 11:03am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/bromantic-friday-november-8-2024


San Fransisco’s nightmarish controlled demolition might be over. Yesterday, the Washington Post ran another shocking election story headlined, “San Francisco rejects incumbent mayor London Breed, elects Daniel Lurie.” Daniel Lurie is a democrat, but he is a conservative, anti-crime democrat. “We need to enforce the laws,” Lurie told WaPo last month. “We can be compassionate, but we have to be tough.”




Behold California’s red shift:





Lurie is an heir to the Levis fortune.
1034   Patrick   2024 Nov 8, 12:41pm  

And across the bay:

https://slaynews.com/news/voters-successfully-recall-oaklands-soros-funded-pro-crime-prosecutor/





Voters in California’s Alameda County have successfully recalled the district’s radical George Soros-funded soft-on-crime chief prosecutor.

The recall of District Attorney Pamela Price, a Democrat, has the potential to deal a blow to the principles of progressivism in the criminal justice system across one of the bluest areas in California.

Price became the first elected district attorney in the history of Alameda County to be recalled from office.

Her district includes the city of Oakland which has been ravaged by violent crime in recent years,


"principles of progressivism"?

Like refusing to protect the public from criminals?
1035   Ceffer   2024 Nov 8, 2:35pm  

Patrick says


"principles of progressivism"?

Like refusing to protect the public from criminals?

Reversing the Vatican/City of London/Club of Rome subversive infiltration one asshole at a time? They take their cues from the local Freemason management cliques and Switzerland. I hope their treason is rewarded with a life of barren living hell for what they commit, if not prison.
1036   HeadSet   2024 Nov 8, 7:26pm  

Patrick says

Behold California’s red shift:

Too bad that red shift did not result in flipped congressional seats.

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