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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   116,182 views  945 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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421   RC2006   2023 Jan 11, 12:38pm  

Are any of the dams coming close to failure?
422   mell   2023 Jan 11, 2:26pm  

Patrick says


https://twitter.com/LiftForever67/status/1611860991146618880?ref_src=patrick.net



With wokeness and diversity comes incompetence.

The transit station built for billions of dollars in SF developed a structural crack.

The giant and expensive condo tower in SF is leaning to one side.

They're not able to handle this rain either, even though the rain was clearly much much heavier when I first moved to California, during El Nino. Anyone who says this is more is just outright lying. I was here. It poured like a mofo for weeks on end. San Francisquito Creek near me was also much much higher back then than any time during this. Like 20 feet higher.
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yep even in 2001 or 2002 or so I remember it raining for weeks. This is a good downpour ending the drought, but you can bet that also all the canalization in SF is now completely clogged, with shit stained hobo clothes and waste, crack paraphernalia AND paper straws and dishes, which clogs much easier than plastic. The city is a poster child of incompetence, not long ago brimming with social hours, great parties and a pretty decent night life in downtown and many hoods. Now it's mostly shit
423   EBGuy   2023 Jan 11, 3:27pm  

San Francisco man who sprayed woman in viral video says he'd do it again
Gwin said that the woman has been in front of his building and adjacent businesses for almost two weeks. He added that he has called the San Francisco Police Department up to 25 times seeking assistance, and that the person was told by officers from the San Francisco Police Department that morning that she needed to move.
In statements to SFGATE, SFPD said that officers first responded to scene at 8:40 a.m. Monday regarding "an adult female who was blocking a business' doorway." Police said the woman complied with an officer's request to move. Then, according to SFPD, officers responded to the hosing incident at 12:04 p.m. as a "possible assault," but both Gwin and the woman "declined further police action at that time." SFPD said it is "still investigating" the man, and that the San Francisco Street Crisis Response Team "provided multiple service options" to the woman.
426   BobHa   2023 Jan 23, 4:51am  

EBGuy says


San Francisco man who sprayed woman in viral video says he'd do it again
Gwin said that the woman has been in front of his building and adjacent businesses for almost two weeks. He added that he has called the San Francisco Police Department up to 25 times seeking assistance, and that the person was told by officers from the San Francisco Police Department that morning that she needed to move.
In statements to SFGATE, SFPD said that officers first responded to scene at 8:40 a.m. Monday regarding "an adult female who was blocking a business' doorway." Police said the woman complied with an officer's request to move. Then, according to SFPD, officers responded to the hosing incident at 12:04 p.m. as a "possible assault," but both Gwin and the woman "declined further police action at that time." SFPD said it is "still investigating" the man...
Could've been worse, he might ve used something like 45 ammo



427   Patrick   2023 Jan 25, 9:41am  

https://www.hoover.org/research/san-francisco-falls-abyss


San Francisco Falls Into The Abyss

No major American city has failed at the same level as Detroit, whose population dropped from 1.85 million people in 1950 to about 630,000 today. Move over Detroit, here comes San Francisco, which lost 6.3 percent of its population between 2019 and 2021, a rate of decline larger than any two year-period in Detroit’s history and unprecedented among any major US city.

Friday, January 20, 2023
428   Patrick   2023 Jan 26, 2:42pm  

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1618422328937033728?ref_src=patrick.net


Dave Rubin
@RubinReport
It’s unimaginably disgusting here. I might put on a mask and it has nothing to do with Covid.


430   Patrick   2023 Feb 4, 7:04pm  

https://sfstandard.com/housing-development/bay-area-cities-just-lost-zoning-control-see-the-wildest-homes-that-could-come-to-your-neighborhood/


The state’s Jan. 31 deadline has come and gone, and 69 out of 109 jurisdictions in the Bay Area have failed to submit their required eight-year housing plan to the state.

Advocacy groups like YIMBY Law are already suing cities and counties, claiming they’ve violated state law by missing the deadline. But in the meantime, developers are preparing to file projects under the “builder’s remedy,” which means cities and counties cannot deny housing projects just because they violate local zoning plans.

That enticing possibility brought a crowd to Downtown San Francisco on Wednesday night, where housing advocates and architects gathered to celebrate the chance to build more aggressively and to share their dream projects.
431   AmericanKulak   2023 Feb 4, 9:10pm  

Patrick says


https://www.hoover.org/research/san-francisco-falls-abyss


San Francisco Falls Into The Abyss

No major American city has failed at the same level as Detroit, whose population dropped from 1.85 million people in 1950 to about 630,000 today. Move over Detroit, here comes San Francisco, which lost 6.3 percent of its population between 2019 and 2021, a rate of decline larger than any two year-period in Detroit’s history and unprecedented among any major US city.

Friday, January 20, 2023



Wow, that's big news. More than 1 in 20 San Fran Freakos left in just one two year period.
432   Misc   2023 Feb 7, 2:24am  

No, the Freakos stayed. It was the normies that fled.
433   Patrick   2023 Feb 14, 1:15pm  

https://public.substack.com/p/san-francisco-leaders-invite-sex


San Francisco Leaders Invite Sex & Drug Tourism
City leaders seek legalized prostitution, promote marijuana tourism, and spread supervised drug sites across city
434   zzyzzx   2023 Feb 20, 8:07am  

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/20/san-francisco-reconsiders-boycott-of-conservative-states-adds-10-20-to-costs/

The City of San Francisco is reportedly reconsidering its boycott on socially conservatives states, after the ban on travel and contracting failed to change those states’ policies and raised the city’s contracting costs 10-20%.
435   Patrick   2023 Feb 27, 7:42pm  

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/heavy-gunfire-in-broad-daylight-reported-in-sfs-soma/


SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Heavy gunfire was reported in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood Tuesday, the San Francisco Police Department confirmed. The shooting happened at the intersection of 9th Street and Minna Street just before 1:50 p.m.

SFPD said a vehicle was driving north on 9th Street when one or two people opened fire. There were “a lot” of shell casings in the street after the shooting.

Police did not locate a victim at the scene of the shooting but were later notified that a victim showed up at a hospital with gunshot wounds. SFPD did not give an update on the victim’s condition.


I suspect that there is literally no level of pain which will convince leftists that their whole world view is wrong.
436   Patrick   2023 Mar 2, 7:17pm  

https://sfstandard.com/transportation/if-downtown-sf-is-dead-why-is-traffic-so-bad/



Wow, BART and Caltrain really got clobbered by all this. I guess people shifted to their cars, at least the remaining people.
440   casandra   2023 Mar 6, 9:48am  

Growing up in the Bay Area, San Francisco was a gem. Relatives and friends traveling from the East Coast to Hawaii would always stop and visit and say they just had to see SF. And they always all commented how beautiful and CLEAN the city was.

Oh, and it was, for the most part, the only place in the Bay Area you would see a few scant homeless people. Now they have taken over every town elsewhere and in the city is ridiculous.

Oh, the above video shows the welcome you get at the SF Presidio welcome center. ENJOY your visit. Hope you come again soon, and tell your friends.
441   mell   2023 Mar 6, 10:35am  

casandra says

Growing up in the Bay Area, San Francisco was a gem. Relatives and friends traveling from the East Coast to Hawaii would always stop and visit and say they just had to see SF. And they always all commented how beautiful and CLEAN the city was.

Oh, and it was, for the most part, the only place in the Bay Area you would see a few scant homeless people. Now they have taken over every town elsewhere and in the city is ridiculous.

Oh, the above video shows the welcome you get at the SF Presidio welcome center. ENJOY your visit. Hope you come again soon, and tell your friends.

Agreed. It is a beautiful city and part of one of the funnest periods of my life, work (hard) and play hard. Great memories. Maybe one day they will run the commie traitors out of town and reset the city to its former beauty.
442   Ceffer   2023 Mar 6, 11:07am  

The feral are invading tri valley, with the helping hand of the Guv. Beggars, burglars, scam artists, and some homeless. The mall has been a car stealing paradise for a while. They take BART, steal the cars they can, and the remains wind up somewhere in Emeryville.

I was sitting in the upper story of the health club looking outward through the window. Two youths of the innominate persuasion cruised by the locked gate of the high fence out back, one jumped up on the fence from the back of the bike, kicked the door open for the other who brought his bike through and they snuck into the club.

In New Orleans, the exposed fences have razor wire and broken glass on the tops. Guess we need to take a page from tradition.
444   Patrick   2023 Mar 8, 10:00pm  

https://hoodline.com/2023/03/amazon-is-closing-all-four-cashierless-amazon-go-stores-in-san-francisco/


Amazon is closing all four cashierless Amazon Go stores in San Francisco


Problem is, people in San Francisco just take stuff and go, lol.
445   RC2006   2023 Mar 17, 1:06pm  

Patrick says

https://hoodline.com/2023/03/amazon-is-closing-all-four-cashierless-amazon-go-stores-in-san-francisco/



Amazon is closing all four cashierless Amazon Go stores in San Francisco


Problem is, people in San Francisco just take stuff and go, lol.


I'm surprised they even had the stores there.
446   RayAmerica   2023 Mar 18, 1:34pm  

CNN Crew Robbed While Covering A Story On Crime In San Francisco

“Got robbed. Again. @jasonkCNN& I were at city hall in San Francisco to do an interview for @CNN. We had security to watch our rental car + crew car. Thieves did this in under 4 seconds. Security stopped the jerks from stealing other bags. But seriously- this is ridiculous,” CNN national correspondent Kyung Lah said.
https://conservativebrief.com/story-crime-71744/
447   mell   2023 Mar 18, 1:43pm  

RC2006 says

Patrick says


https://hoodline.com/2023/03/amazon-is-closing-all-four-cashierless-amazon-go-stores-in-san-francisco/




Amazon is closing all four cashierless Amazon Go stores in San Francisco


Problem is, people in San Francisco just take stuff and go, lol.



I'm surprised they even had the stores there.

That stupid "law" is the perfect excuse for amazon to close their stores and prevent losses from shoplifting
448   mell   2023 Mar 18, 1:45pm  

RayAmerica says

CNN Crew Robbed While Covering A Story On Crime In San Francisco

“Got robbed. Again. jasonkCNN& I were at city hall in San Francisco to do an interview for CNN. We had security to watch our rental car + crew car. Thieves did this in under 4 seconds. Security stopped the jerks from stealing other bags. But seriously- this is ridiculous,” CNN national correspondent Kyung Lah said.
https://conservativebrief.com/story-crime-71744/

If she complains just a bit louder she will be taken off air as racist!
450   Patrick   2023 Mar 18, 10:10pm  

https://www.mediaite.com/crime/cnn-crew-robbed-while-covering-street-crime-in-san-francisco/

Oh LOL, they were another crew covering crime in SF, and robbed again. I think I recall such a robbery before in SF, and a similar one in Oakland, where in those two the robbers wanted the news camera because it is very valuable.
451   richwicks   2023 Mar 18, 10:12pm  

Patrick says

https://hoodline.com/2023/03/amazon-is-closing-all-four-cashierless-amazon-go-stores-in-san-francisco/



Amazon is closing all four cashierless Amazon Go stores in San Francisco


Problem is, people in San Francisco just take stuff and go, lol.


Fuck Amazon.

Bezos is an asshole, he owns the Washington Post, it's a putrid propaganda paper.
452   EBGuy   2023 Mar 19, 1:25am  

Patrick says

Amazon is closing all four cashierless Amazon Go stores in San Francisco


In all fairness, Ess Eff actually had a law that made these stores accept cash.
453   Patrick   2023 Mar 19, 6:20pm  

Thanks @EBGuy Got a link about that requirement to take cash?
454   Patrick   2023 Mar 19, 6:21pm  

Patrick says


https://www.mediaite.com/crime/cnn-crew-robbed-while-covering-street-crime-in-san-francisco/

Oh LOL, they were another crew covering crime in SF, and robbed again. I think I recall such a robbery before in SF, and a similar one in Oakland, where in those two the robbers wanted the news camera because it is very valuable.


Tried to look up the Oakland one, but it seems like it's just routine:

2012:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/05/14/oakland-tv-news-reporter-photographer-have-camera-and-tripod-stolen-in-brazen-daylight-theft/

2016:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/02/ktvu-news-camera-equipment-stolen-in-oakland/

2019:

https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/california-news-crews-camera-stolen-guard-shot-02-25-2019

A friend reminded of yet another:


There was one where a camera crew was sent out to Twin Peaks in SF to do a story on home robberies in the neighborhood and they got held up at gunpoint and had their gear stolen.
455   EBGuy   2023 Mar 19, 7:00pm  

Patrick says

Got a link about that requirement to take cash?


Fourth Amazon Go store to open in San Francisco
The rollout comes after San Francisco passed legislation to ban cashless-only stores, with some policymakers saying that refusing to accept cash as payment excludes people unable to obtain credit cards or use other electronic payment methods.
Before the cashless ban, customers could only shop at an Amazon Go store via its phone app. ..
457   Misc   2023 Mar 21, 5:57am  

Tough to say if you should call the police if there's trouble nowadays.

Maybe the guys that show up are illegals or felons or cannot determine right from wrong.

It just adds another layer of complexity to the whole issue of who should be arrested and why.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/san-francisco-police-department-hired-unvetted-undocumented-officers-to-fill-staff-vacancies-audit-finds/ar-AA18RFZE?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3baa03684d9f42478654f6930d2815e5&ei=14
458   Patrick   2023 Apr 4, 8:44am  

https://slaynews.com/news/san-francisco-throws-in-towel-asks-federal-government-for-help-cleaning-up-city-we-are-in-the-midst-of-an-unprecedented-police-staffing-shortage/


San Francisco is requesting assistance from the federal government due to an “unprecedented police staffing shortage” in the liberal California city.

Three years ago San Francisco Mayor London Breed joined Democrats across the nation and announced a plan to defund the police.

It backfired in every way imaginable and Breed eventually reversed the budget cuts but the damage was done.

The city is full of crime, filth, and open-air drug markets and Breed can’t solve the problem because the city is in the “midst of an unprecedented police staffing shortage.”
459   B.A.C.A.H.   2023 Apr 4, 8:59am  

It's OK, Ms Breed. Folks and businesses are voting with their feet.
460   zzyzzx   2023 Apr 4, 9:47am  

Patrick says

San Francisco is requesting assistance from the federal government due to an “unprecedented police staffing shortage” in the liberal California city.


Isn't that a job for the state National Guard?

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