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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   116,506 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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473   RWSGFY   2023 Apr 7, 8:08am  

Patrick says


https://sfstandard.com/business/downtown-san-francisco-vacancies-hit-record-high-as-city-nears-breaking-point/


The news and the numbers are grim for Downtown San Francisco’s office market—and no one can say with any certainty where the bottom is.

In the first quarter of the year, office vacancies were the highest ever recorded, according to real estate broker CBRE. The firm estimated a 29.5% vacancy rate last quarter, substantially higher than rates seen during the dot-com bust and Great Recession and a seven-fold increase from the start of 2020.

Real estate analysts are expecting vacancies to tick up further as leases—including a major glut of shorter-term subleases—expire in the coming years. More dominos could fall if building owners, faced with lower revenues, decide to hand over their p...


The push to return to the office full time has began in many companies. I know 2 which completely reneged on any previously promised "hybrid schedule" or "flex work" or whatever and making everybody come to the office 5 days per week no exceptions. Even people who were 100% remote before the whole coof thing are now required to come in.
474   Patrick   2023 Apr 8, 11:25pm  

https://sfstandard.com/sports/mlb-releases-sf-giants-cap-with-monumental-error/


For the 2023 season, the San Francisco Giants chose “Nothing Like It” as the slogan for their advertising campaign.

Coincidentally, there’s nothing like wearing an officially licensed hat that misspells the team’s home city.

The “Pro Standard Black 2012 World Series Old English Snapback Hat” can be found on the official MLB Shop. Above the typical interlocking “SF” logo, the words “San Fransico”—a misspelling of San Francisco—are spelled out in an old English font.
475   Patrick   2023 Apr 8, 11:52pm  

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/crime-san-francisco-marina-district/


Scott acknowledged the department's staffing crisis, saying it is at least 500 officers short. Jenkins promised accountability and pushed for a collective effort.


Where did the officers go ?
🤔
476   Patrick   2023 Apr 8, 11:53pm  

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/don-carmignani-san-francisco-fire-commissioner-assault-marina-district/


Suspect arrested in brutal assault of former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani

SAN FRANCISCO -- A brutal and brazen attack on former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani outside his mother's Marina District home has left him battling for his life and neighbors on edge.

According to friends, Carmignani was leaving the family home on Magnolia Street between Buchanan and Laguna Streets on Wednesday when he was approached by three men.

"Last night at 7pm in the marina district at Laguna and Chestnut Street, a friend and former San Francisco Commissioner was brutally beaten by a group of homeless people in front of his home," Joe Alioto Veronese, a prominent lawyer and friend, posted on Twitter. "He is at SF general fighting for his life. Pray4Him."

Carmignani was beaten with a pipe leaving him with severe head injuries including a fractured skull. He was rushed to San Francisco General and underwent emergency surgery. His condition has not been released.


Yeah, maybe that whole BLM "defund the police" was not the best idea...
477   Patrick   2023 Apr 9, 12:00am  

https://www.businessinsider.com/bob-lee-left-san-francisco-crime-city-friend-cash-app-2023-4


Cash App creator Bob Lee moved out of San Francisco because he thought the city was 'deteriorating' shortly before he was stabbed there, friend says
478   Patrick   2023 Apr 10, 5:24pm  

Ceffer says

Question is, is this another crypto assassination. He was killed outside his condo, indicating he was followed, studied and stalked. CryptoCide is now a thing along with Arkancide etc. Curious minds would like to know.


@Ceffer




Hmmm.
480   Patrick   2023 Apr 10, 10:11pm  





will make it extremely difficult for residents to steal healthy food.


Lol!
481   EBGuy   2023 Apr 10, 10:13pm  

Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Closing a Year After Opening
One of the largest supermarkets in Downtown San Francisco—the Whole Foods Market at Eighth and Market streets—intends to shut down at the close of business Monday just a little more than a year after the store opened, company officials told The Standard.
“We are closing our Trinity location only for the time being,” a Whole Foods spokesperson said in a statement. “If we feel we can ensure the safety of our team members in the store, we will evaluate a reopening of our Trinity location.”
A City Hall source told The Standard the company cited deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the grocery store as a reason for its closure.
Since the start of the pandemic, Downtown has suffered a massive loss in foot traffic due to remote work. Many small businesses have shuttered, while examples of extreme poverty, drug use and mental illness on the street have become more apparent. Fears of a “doom loop” in which a cascade of negative financial impacts compound have spread across the city, and City Hall officials currently expect a nearly $800 million deficit in San Francisco’s budget.
482   NuttBoxer   2023 Apr 11, 7:24am  

SF just closed their "flagship" Whole Foods due to employee safety concerns...
484   AD   2023 Apr 12, 2:17pm  

NuttBoxer says

SF just closed their "flagship" Whole Foods due to employee safety concerns...


And also probably because of shrinkage (i.e., theft, internal (employees) and external (homeless, organized criminals, etc.)).

Walmart is pulling out of Chicago for this reason.

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485   RayAmerica   2023 Apr 12, 2:43pm  

Have you ever heard people complain about "food deserts" in urban areas?

I can't imagine what causes these food deserts, can you?
486   Misc   2023 Apr 12, 11:30pm  

So what's it gonna be?

Do you think the mayor is gonna have the guts to do some mass layoffs or is he gonna hit the tax donkeys up for some extra taxes?

If he goes the layoff route, he ain't got much time to get the notices out. I doubt his tax collectors are gonna come up with the coin on such short notice from the taxpayers.

Who knows, maybe some checks will bounce.

https://sfstandard.com/politics/city-hall/san-franciscos-deficit-swells-to-780m-in-latest-sign-of-budget-distress/
487   AD   2023 Apr 12, 11:53pm  

Misc says

So what's it gonna be?

Do you think the mayor is gonna have the guts to do some mass layoffs or is he gonna hit the tax donkeys up for some extra taxes?


The state government bails outs San Fran ?

They have furloughs like send people home 1 day out of work week on unpaid leave ?

San Fran can go bankrupt like Orange County, California did in 1994 under the Bankruptcy Act of 1934.

Can San Fran draw from reserves or savings like a rainy day fund ?

Other than that, can it have a one time tax (i.e., special assessment) to cover expenses such as emergency increase in city sales tax and property tax ?
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488   Patrick   2023 Apr 14, 6:48pm  

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/salesforce-leaves-entire-sf-office-building-as-bay-area-office-vacancy-crisis-worsens/


Salesforce, one of the largest companies in the Bay Area, continued to vacate San Francisco this week by completely moving out of the Salesforce East tower, with all of their formerly occupied floors going to lease.


Lol, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is dangerously woke, and it seems like it's coming back to bite him.
489   Blue   2023 Apr 14, 7:37pm  

Patrick says

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/salesforce-leaves-entire-sf-office-building-as-bay-area-office-vacancy-crisis-worsens/



Salesforce, one of the largest companies in the Bay Area, continued to vacate San Francisco this week by completely moving out of the Salesforce East tower, with all of their formerly occupied floors going to lease.


Lol, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is dangerously woke, and it seems like it's coming back to bite him.

Remember the news right after finishing this building, there was a major cracks somewhere near street level that had an immediate retrofit after detour traffic. Not sure what happened there though. Building structure safety could be a factor along with woke politics and safety concerns in the city.
490   EBGuy   2023 Apr 14, 8:08pm  

Misc says

If he goes the layoff route, he ain't got much time to get the notices out. I doubt his tax collectors are gonna come up with the coin on such short notice from the taxpayers.


What do you mean he, white man?

original link
492   Ceffer   2023 Apr 14, 10:00pm  

Blue says


Marc Benioff is dangerously woke

"Nominally" wealthy, or just another Globalist Babylonian leveraged debt slave following orders?
493   Ceffer   2023 Apr 14, 10:03pm  

EBGuy says

What do you mean he, white man?

Breed has either mastered the art of the Satanic Inversion lie, or she's a soon to be ex-employee of Soros et alia.
494   HeadSet   2023 Apr 15, 7:10pm  

Patrick says





A bit PC here, eh? Was the artist afraid to make the looters the correct ethnicity?
495   richwicks   2023 Apr 15, 8:28pm  

HeadSet says

Patrick says






A bit PC here, eh? Was the artist afraid to make the looters the correct ethnicity?


First of all the "white male" represents everybody, it's generic.

And second of all, yes.
496   Patrick   2023 Apr 16, 8:08pm  

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/downtown-san-francisco-17852552.php


Downtown San Francisco is at risk of collapsing — and taking much of the Bay Area with it.

Experts say post-pandemic woes stemming from office workers staying home instead of commuting into the city could send San Francisco into a “doom loop” that would gut its tax base, decimate fare-reliant regional transit systems like BART and trap it in an economic death spiral.

Who could have predicted such a fate?


It was obvious that San Francisco would die from the moment they tore down the statue of Columbus.

There is no hope for San Francisco until Columbus is put back in his rightful place and well protected from violent leftists.
498   AD   2023 Apr 17, 2:24pm  

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

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

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

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

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

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499   AD   2023 Apr 17, 2:26pm  

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

ad says

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


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

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

richwicks says

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

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


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

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503   richwicks   2023 Apr 17, 4:01pm  

ad says

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

San Francisco Mayor and other Democrats just enjoy homelessness.

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

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

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

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


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


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

Robert Sproul says

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


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

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

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511   AD   2023 Apr 22, 6:32pm  

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

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

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