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https://abc30.com/car-robbery-sf-traffic-thief-jumps-out-of-robs-driver/10318674/

SAN FRANCISCO -- A driver captured video of a brazen robbery while driving through traffic in San Francisco on Friday afternoon.

The driver, Alex, says he was about to get on an onramp, heading east on I-80 around 4:30 p.m. There, he witnessed someone jump out of a Honda Accord and smash a window of a Prius in front of him.

The thief grabbed a bag and drove off.

Patrick says

The news comes as crime rates continue to run red hot in San Francisco, Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) district.

As long as Paul Pelosi can keep sucking dicks on Union Street, it's all good.

Patrick says

SAN FRANCISCO -- A driver captured video of a brazen robbery while driving through traffic in San Francisco on Friday afternoon.

That thief knew exactly what he was going for. It seems the cops would find the thief by checking out people who knew that couple were photographers with their gear in the back. Also, not so easy to smash a rear window to make a hole, that guy knew what he was doing.

Patrick says

SAN FRANCISCO -- A driver captured video of a brazen robbery while driving through traffic in San Francisco on Friday afternoon.

In all fairness, this was two years ago during Chesa Boudin's reign of terror...

https://sfstandard.com/business/bay-area-home-depot-stores-cage-laundry-soap-power-tools-after-rampant-theft/

Home Depot stores in the Bay Area have started to lock items behind cages due to rampant theft.

Workers told The Standard that the stores locked high-value items such as power tools behind the cages starting around January, but since then, even laundry detergent has been locked up.

"It used to be big-ticket items, but now even the detergent is locked up," said one worker at the Emeryville Home Depot store, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

Items behind lock, key and cage vary, from expensive power tools, spools of copper wire and lawn mowers to more mundane items like phone chargers, work gloves and shower drain covers.

READ MORE: Downtown San Francisco Target Plagued by Thefts, Workers Say

The workers said the cages are an effective deterrent for most thieves, but more savvy criminals can work around the cages, especially to access more lucrative scores, like items in the power tools section.

"A month ago, I saw these two guys just muscle off one of the cages, bare hands," the worker said. ...

Home Depot tells its staff not to confront suspected shoplifters but does employ trained asset-protection guards to challenge thieves. In April, a Home Depot employee was fatally shot in a Pleasanton store after confronting shoplifters. ...

A Homeland Security Investigations report published in June 2022 said the average U.S. family will have to pay more than $500 a year extra for goods due to the impact of organized retail theft.

This is entirely the fault of far-left Democrat policies.

https://chainstoreage.com/california-senate-passes-bill-stop-employees-confronting-shoplifters

California Senate passes bill to stop employees from confronting shoplifters...

“This bill goes way too far, number one, where I think it will open the doors even wider for people to come in and steal from our stores,” said Rachel Michelin, CRA president and CEO, in a report by Fox KTVU.com.

The California Chamber of Commerce also expressed reservations about the bill.

Was talking to a cop here about CA. He told me he pulled a guy over that was wanted for a murder in CA. CA did want to extradite him so they had to let him go.

RC2006 says

Was talking to a cop here about CA. He told me he pulled a guy over that was wanted for a murder in CA. CA did want to extradite him so they had to let him go.

That sounded so outlandish that I looked up the law on interstate extradition. Your cop friend is right.

RC2006 says

Was talking to a cop here about CA. He told me he pulled a guy over that was wanted for a murder in CA. CA did want to extradite him so they had to let him go.

Who was the victim? Notify the family. Blow the fucking whistle.

I didn't get any details. I asked another cop buddy and he believed that it could happen. Just seems outrageous, there was a time we would get people around the world. I've just never heard of that happening.

LOL!

https://t.me/volmemes/28091

Patrick says

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

Eric Holder says

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

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

HeadSet says

Eric Holder says

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

So, are you on the side of legalized fentanyl?

What part of my little historic observation made you come to this conclusion?

Eric Holder says

What part of my little historic observation made you come to this conclusion?

I was honestly asking; I wasn't putting forth any idea of what I thought you believed. The bit about legalizing fentanyl is my thoughts.

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

https://www.bizjournals.com/

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Holder says

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

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

HeadSet says

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

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

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

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

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

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

Law enforcement is a fiction.

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

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

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

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

They are just criminals, and if you can't see that, you can't fix it.

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

HeadSet says

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

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

HeadSet says

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

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

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

But they don't do that, do they?

HeadSet says

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

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

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

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

CIA is drug gang.

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

It's so goddamned frustrating that people look at the tree instead of the forest. People DIED to show you the forest.

richwicks says

Eric Holder says

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

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

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

Eric Holder says

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

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

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

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

Eric Holder says

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

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

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

But they didn't. Why not?

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

Eric Holder says

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

DO we want this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mine was modified to get even more personal. I remember some of the far more personal questions, but I'm not going to reveal them.

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

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

Excellent video, and the commentary is priceless!

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

Another week, another business shutting down in San Francisco.

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

The city is on its way to becoming a retail desert. People are trying to avoid crime, homeless drug addicts and filth in the streets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It would be yet more ironic to find out that the thieves are black.

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

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

So Changing Consumer Habits is a euphemism for theft now.

Another article about that:

https://sfstandard.com/business/att-to-close-downtown-san-francisco-flagship-store/

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

At publishing time, state officials in Texas were willing to discuss accepting San Francisco as a new city with the condition that it stop being super gay.

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

Misc says

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

That is a strawman argument...

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

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

Just arm the German tourists with Tommy Guns, and they will have the place cleaned out in no time.

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

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

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

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

“Gunshots were fired from both vehicles,” Scott said, and police are looking for a white sedan and its occupants, who fled. The other vehicle was a black SUV that was towed from the scene.