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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   159,225 views  1,039 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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153   Patrick   2021 Nov 17, 7:14pm  

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/11/15/the-orc-invasion/

Organized retail criminals are making the most of San Francisco’s urban chaos

Even in thrall to schizophrenia or demons or addiction or whatever madness it is that has him sleeping out of doors, this man can get a sandwich anytime he wants. Beer, too, or wine, and toiletries (though those don’t seem to be a top priority at this point in his career), the latest issue of Harper’s, whatever. All he has to do is walk into a store and take it. When I checked in at my hotel, I got a $50 credit at the hotel shop, but this guy does not need American Express — he has a $950 credit at every store in town, because San Francisco has effectively (though not quite formally) decriminalized theft of that amount or less. And the city has shown itself unable or unwilling to prosecute a lot of shoplifting amounting to much, much more than that. What has developed are parallel crime waves: One is good old San Francisco street-level hippie-dirtbag chaos, and the other is organized crime, with packs of shoplifters working for ringleaders and bosses who move the goods through both physical and online distribution networks that turn tens of millions of dollars in profit. There is more to this scene than what you see on San Francisco’s lunatic sidewalks. ...

Enforcing the law on the law-abiding is relatively easy, but enforcing the law on outlaws is hard work. My taxi driver says he thinks it’s stupid that he and his riders are required to be masked at all times even though they are separated by a plastic partition, but he says drivers have been fined and had their licenses threatened for carrying passengers without masks. It’s an easy offense to prosecute, and masking here in this most progressive city is a powerful symbolic and ritualistic issue, a declaration: “We are not red-staters!” even if Elon Musk now is, along with many other Golden State refugees. Arresting shoplifters at Walgreens is a different kind of symbolic issue, and the Powers That Be in San Francisco just won’t do it. ...

For the moment, COVID-19 has given professional shoplifters something very valuable: a mandate to wear masks in public. For years, California maintained a prohibition on public mask-wearing, but that law was overturned after a challenge from Iranian expatriates in California who wished to cover their faces while protesting the abuses of the ayatollahs’ regime. (The University of California at Berkeley has a policy prohibiting the wearing of masks by people for the purpose of “intimidation” — unless the masked parties are affiliated with the university.) ...

An elderly woman operating a small shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown was exasperated by a thief who brazenly stole cellphone accessories and then returned a few hours later to “return” them for cash. She chased him off but a few hours after that he returned again to steal some more. That time, a shopper stopped him. A few hours later, the thief returned once more, but not to steal — he pepper-sprayed the shopkeeper as a warning not to interfere with him again. Others interfering with shoplifters have been beaten, stabbed, and shot. Unless storekeepers are actually murdered, city officials have almost no discernible interest in these cases. There have been few convictions or even prosecutions resulting from them.
154   Patrick   2021 Nov 17, 8:10pm  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1460479472205893636

https://notthebee.com/article/it-seems-the-perps-stacking-laundry-detergent-in-their-honda-odyssey-have-graduated-to-4k-flatscreens

This is in a town Wallingford CT where the police were never defunded, and has strict shoplifting laws. msn.com/en-us/news/crime/bra…


Seems to be spreading to other cities.
155   Blue   2021 Nov 18, 12:53am  

Yesterday afternoon I visited apple campus cupertino with a friend. When returned back to car, found the window of the next van was completely broken. We left and later we found that the whole incident was recorded in my friend’s car video cam. He looked inside for few seconds and broke with a sharp object like diamond tip crawled in and grabbed a bag and got into passenger side of a running car and left. Everything should be less than a minute. Thought of reporting to apple shop but I suspect they will hide crimes. Friend might upload video to police station portal if possible. The owner looks like either Japanese or Chinese in the next videos. The burglary looked like light skinned based on upper side of his face, the lower side is covered with monkey cap. There are lots of complaints in next door app about thefts and burglary. I am not very sure what police can do cause they did nothing to my neighbor when his car was broken and lost stuff like cash and credit cards!? etc. unless his payments are over 950. Later one more car break in and mailbox thefts etc. probably it’s a waste of time on reporting. It’s the result of crappy political mess around.
156   Blue   2021 Nov 18, 1:42am  

In the previous to previous video, It appears that they followed the van. Very likely they must have seen the victim getting in with something valuable before heading to apple.
157   Patrick   2021 Nov 18, 9:56pm  

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/far-left-san-francisco-da-files-homicides-charges-against-officer-who-shot-man-who-was-attacking-cops/


Far-left San Francisco DA files homicides charges against officer who shot man who was attacking cops
Posted by: Chris Elliot|November 5, 2021 |CategoriesCaught on Camera, Investigations, Law and Legal, Must Reads, News, Patrol, Politics and Policing

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Controversial San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced murder charges against an officer who shot a man on a noise complaint in 2017.

Boudin alleges that the officer should have de-escalated the situation instead of resorting to deadly force.

Boudin announced manslaughter charges against San Francisco Police Officer Kenneth Cha during the first week in November from the incident which occurred on January 6th of 2017.
158   Ceffer   2021 Nov 18, 10:16pm  

Boudin might wind up getting greased by the police, and nobody will investigate.
159   Patrick   2021 Nov 18, 11:45pm  

Lol, that would be so ironic.
160   Patrick   2021 Nov 19, 10:24pm  

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/so-many-people-so-little-housing/


What happens when a lot of people want a good—say, housing—that is in short supply? As even elementary schoolers learn, prices go up. Now, what happens when you increase the supply to keep up with the demand?

San Francisco may never know, for, as in many other American cities facing housing crunches, a bloc of local politicians has made it their mission to block any new construction if it fails to satisfy a list of must-haves that could put the most ravenous child’s Christmas list to shame.
164   richwicks   2021 Nov 23, 10:20pm  

Patrick says






494 million out of 7.9 billion is 0.6% 6.25% - I (still) consider that acceptable. I took a crap once outdoors but I grew up in the sticks. Also, I found a human turd at a swimming spot, it was entirely filled with maggots when my brother and I split it open with a stick. Funny what I can recall from nearly 40 years ago.
168   GNL   2021 Nov 26, 4:18pm  

richwicks says
494 million out of 7.9 billion is 0.6%

I think you meant 6%
169   richwicks   2021 Nov 26, 4:36pm  

WineHorror1 says
richwicks says
494 million out of 7.9 billion is 0.6%

I think you meant 6%


Why, yes I did. Actually, I just did the calculation wrong.
170   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 10:34am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-stores-hold-100-off-black-friday-sale





SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a beloved San Fran tradition, stores across the city are holding their annual 100% off Black Friday sale today, offering shoppers the opportunity to come in, throw as much stuff in a bag as they can fit, and run out of the store.

"Come one, come all, and check out these amazing discounts!" said the manager of one San Francisco Walgreens. "You can get makeup, electronics, Takis, sunglasses, you name it—even prescription medications!"

One shopper said she just had to go check out the savings on designer handbags. "Yeah, I don't really like going out in the crowds, but for 100% off, sure. I'll throw on a ski mask and some gloves and grab as many Gucci purses as possible."

What's more, shops across San Francisco are offering an extended return policy on all goods taken from the store during these amazing 100% off bargain sales, so that you can bring that big screen TV back if it doesn't end up fitting or you can't flip it on OfferUp for a tidy profit.

At publishing time, the stores had confirmed they will be holding this sale every day for the foreseeable future, or at least "as long as the Democrats remain in office."


What's a "Taki"?
171   Automan Empire   2021 Nov 27, 12:14pm  

Patrick says
What's a "Taki"?


Shitty foreign Funyun-level snack food.
172   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 12:29pm  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/84385

NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Leftist Cities Hit by Crime Spree
Looters in Chicago and San Francisco staged coordinated raids on high-end stores.
173   AmericanKulak   2021 Nov 28, 8:42am  

Welcome to San Francisco. A Japanese woman from NYC has her car broken into and her camera equipment and work laptop stolen by a white supremacist engaging in bread-getting. Seth Rogen says this is just a normal thing to deal with in beautiful California. pic.twitter.com/z2OGRiE9XE

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) November 28, 2021
176   RWSGFY   2021 Dec 1, 12:10am  

Patrick says
https://notthebee.com/article/please-enjoy-this-video-of-looters-looting-other-looters-

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1465393803120889860


Libs of Tik Tok
@libsoftiktok
Nov 29
Looters looting other looters. Love to see it 😂😂





Fucking 🇳🇪🇳🇪
177   HeadSet   2021 Dec 1, 7:03am  

What is nene? A reference to that goose that cannot protect itself?
178   Patrick   2021 Dec 1, 2:05pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/a-restaurant-in-san-francisco-had-to-delay-its-opening-after-a-group-of-criminals-broke-in-and-burgled-the-place-and-threw-a-huge-disgusting-party


A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party
179   EBGuy   2021 Dec 1, 2:10pm  

Patrick says
A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party

Wow, that pop up party is pretty crazy. Who needs to rent an AirBnb...
180   HeadSet   2021 Dec 1, 2:32pm  

Patrick says
A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party

Yep, and I would guess that Asian owner voted dem.
181   Eric Holder   2021 Dec 1, 2:46pm  

Patrick says
https://notthebee.com/article/a-restaurant-in-san-francisco-had-to-delay-its-opening-after-a-group-of-criminals-broke-in-and-burgled-the-place-and-threw-a-huge-disgusting-party


A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party


It gives me a business idea....
182   EBGuy   2021 Dec 3, 1:50pm  

This article is utterly terrifying...
Jessica said her life might seem hard, but it’s actually pretty carefree, and she offered a sweeping explanation of one reason why her mom would face such long odds trying to pull her out of San Francisco.
“The city is way too easy for people with nothing to get by,” she said. “That’s why I’m still here nine years later. You get by with doing drugs and suffer no consequences. I like it here.”
184   richwicks   2021 Dec 3, 11:42pm  

HeadSet says
Patrick says
A restaurant in San Francisco had to delay its opening after a group of criminals broke in, burgled the place, and threw a huge, disgusting party

Yep, and I would guess that Asian owner voted dem.


The Asians I know are few, but many are business owners - they are NOT democrats.

Asians have their own sort of "white trash" - where people just take advantage of the system, because if the system allows it - why not? Take advantage of "stupidity" is their thinking.

When I was a 20 year old kid, I didn't think it was POSSIBLE somebody would take advantage of a government social program that was designed to help people who were down on their luck or were having trouble in life. My thinking was "who would take advantage of a program meant to help the poor and desperate?? They are taking away from people who are REALLY in need! Maybe a FEW people would do that, but they'd have to be fucking scum to do it".

Well, there's a scum.

There's a reason for the concept of "shame". People using EBT cards can do it without being noticed, food stamps, they couldn't do that.

Some Indian/Pakistani cunt was outside of a local Safeway with her KID begging for money. I called her our, I said "this is shameful, you are exploiting your child, you're scum. You should be ashamed, you're a terrible terrible parent!". She's was not there today. There's several fast food restaurants hiring for $17 an hour starting wage around here. Every business is looking for non skilled labor.
185   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Dec 4, 7:36am  

Patrick says
https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-stores-hold-100-off-black-friday-sale?source=patrick.net





SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a beloved San Fran tradition, stores across the city are holding their annual 100% off Black Friday sale today, offering shoppers the opportunity to come in, throw as much stuff in a bag as they can fit, and run out of the store.

"Come one, come all, and check out these amazing discounts!" said the manager of one San Francisco Walgreens. "You can get makeup, electronics, Takis, sunglasses, you name it—even prescription medications!"

One shopper said she just had to go check out the savings on designer handbags. "Yeah, I don't really like going out in the crowds, but for 100% off, sure. I'll throw on a ski mask and some gl...


We have this in LA now, personally witnessed the event.
186   AmericanKulak   2021 Dec 4, 8:00am  

EBGuy says
This article is utterly terrifying...
Jessica said her life might seem hard, but it’s actually pretty carefree, and she offered a sweeping explanation of one reason why her mom would face such long odds trying to pull her out of San Francisco.
“The city is way too easy for people with nothing to get by,” she said. “That’s why I’m still here nine years later. You get by with doing drugs and suffer no consequences. I like it here.”

Thanks for this.

Genetics and free shit

Thanks, @EBGuy. Adam's twitter is great: https://twitter.com/bettersoma?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
187   Booger   2021 Dec 4, 5:03pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10274993/Spate-robberies-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-threatens-survival-cannabis-shops.html?source=patrick.net

Looters steal $5 MILLION of products from 15 cannabis shops in the San Francisco Bay Area in a single month: One business owner insists it was 'safer to sell on the streets illegally'
188   charlie303   2021 Dec 4, 6:31pm  

Are all of the smash and grab robberies opportunistic thieves?

Most are, in my opinion. They are cashing in on the stupidity of Liberal policies.

But is there also some coordinated plan from behind the curtain to destabilize America?

Something modelled on Hitler's Night of the Broken Glass? A variation thereon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht?source=patrick.net

A lot of DA;s are appointed by Soros and promoted by the left wing media are they not?
189   Patrick   2021 Dec 4, 10:05pm  

New York has same political lunacy, and therefore the same crime wave:

https://notthebee.com/article/crime-in-new-york-is-so-out-of-control-that-bank-of-america-is-reportedly-telling-its-staffers-to-dress-down-when-coming-into-work?source=patrick.net


Crime in New York is so out of control that Bank of America is reportedly telling its staffers to "dress down" when coming into work
191   Patrick   2021 Dec 13, 8:41am  

https://unherd.com/2021/12/will-california-ever-be-safe-again/?source=patrick.net


Once upon a time, we would have been shocked by this level of crime. Today, citizens fatalistically adapt their behaviours. I know countless women who no longer walk alone after dark in California’s cities. Everyone knows to hide anything they leave in their cars. Those who can afford it are installing gates and building tall fences around their homes. The wealthy are hiring personal security and no longer relying on police for protection. I’ve seen this all before — in Nairobi as well as other places in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and India.
192   rocketjoe79   2021 Dec 13, 9:08am  

Patrick says
https://unherd.com/2021/12/will-california-ever-be-safe-again/?source=patrick.net


Once upon a time, we would have been shocked by this level of crime. Today, citizens fatalistically adapt their behaviours. I know countless women who no longer walk alone after dark in California’s cities. Everyone knows to hide anything they leave in their cars. Those who can afford it are installing gates and building tall fences around their homes. The wealthy are hiring personal security and no longer relying on police for protection. I’ve seen this all before — in Nairobi as well as other places in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and India.


You can add South Africa to the list.

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