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The public doesn't want this shit, the companies don't want this shit.
Everyone knows that San Francisco is the nation's largest public toilet - requiring the city to employ six-figure 'poop patrol' cleanup team, however a new report from the city Controller's Office really puts things in poo-spective.
For starters, feces were found far more often in commercial sectors, covering "approximately 50% of street segments in Key Commercial Areas and 30% in the Citywide survey," second only to broken glass as can be seen in the 'illegal dumping' section. ...
This is all even more heartbreaking, because San Francisco is one of the most naturally beautiful places on Earth. A city on the edge of the Pacific with the bay around it, and the endless waves of fog rolling above. ...
San Francisco has long been a left-leaning city, but this alone wasn't enough to create a policy environment that would lead to the city's downfall. The tipping point towards full-blown insanity in San Francisco's policy environment can be traced back to Proposition 47, a 2014 ballot measure that reduced penalties for certain nonviolent crimes, including shoplifting.
Proposition 47 changed the law so that stealing items worth less than $950 is now considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony. This means that offenders may receive lower fines, shorter jail sentences, or no jail time at all. Unfortunately, this leniency has led to increased shoplifting, as criminals believe they won't face serious consequences for their actions. In San Francisco, police often don't respond to reports of store robberies and instead, request that the store report the crime online. However, these reports are frequently not followed up on. ...
Proposition 47 essentially legalized small-scale retail crime, paving the way for more serious offenses. The action then shifted to the District Attorney's office for further implementation. ...
Proposition 47 was a clever strategy to attract criminals conducting retail and property crimes to the city and keep those already in the city out of jail. However, more serious criminals were still being locked up pending trial or sentenced to prison terms for serious crimes they had committed. This is where George Soros stepped in with the Open Societies Foundation to change the San Francisco District Attorney.
Soros backed Chesa Boudin, who was elected in 2019. Boudin has an interesting background, as both of his parents were actual terrorists in the Weather Underground Movement. ...
An apt comparison exists between this campaign and vaccination campaigns, in that coordinated propaganda can influence people to support insane measures. ...
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what would be the results of these policy decisions.
Here is one of the results - defaults of commercial real estate and hotels closing and leaving the city...
In other recent developments, California recently passed another law that criminalizes trying to prevent robbery or shoplifting as a “public safety” measure. Let’s guess what effect this will have on retailers who are dumb enough to still maintain presence in this bastion of wokeness.
National retailers such as Nordstrom, Crate & Barrel and H&M have closed San Francisco stores. Tech companies are putting their offices up for sublease; and the city’s commercial real estate, previously among the most valuable in the world, has started selling at huge discounts.
California recently passed another law that criminalizes trying to prevent robbery or shoplifting as a “public safety”
There will be no retail stores in Cali soon. You would have to buy everything online. The shoplifters will have to come to your homes. Hide your kids. Hide your wife.
There will be no retail stores in Cali soon. You would have to buy everything online. The shoplifters will have to come to your homes. Hide your kids. Hide your wife.
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San Francisco’s plan for housingyoung adultsADDICTS at SoMa site facing backlash
SoMa community organizer Nikki Ahmadi wrote a petition that’s racked up more than 800 signatures from residents who strongly oppose the city’s plan for 1174 Folsom Street.
The petition lists its three main concerns as:
Utilizing $22 million in taxpayer money to house only 42 people in a luxury building.
Needles and pipes will be distributed onsite to residents who are drug users as part of the city’s “harm reduction” policy.
Exposes vulnerable housing project residents to drugs dealers and addicts who already frequent the neighborhood.
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Mothers attacked by baseball-bat wielding children as San Francisco crime wave intensifies
City officials blame truancy and zero interest from police for ‘kids doing these really awful things’
Heavy-ass window tinting. 'Nuff said.
Once in TX I had what I presumed was a meth head try to break into my vehicle to steal my gear.
stereotomy says
Heavy-ass window tinting. 'Nuff said.
Once in TX I had what I presumed was a meth head try to break into my vehicle to steal my gear.
Sedan with no way to access the trunk from the inside is the best vehicle to take to places like that (if you must go).
2 Big Tech Conferences Pull Out of San Francisco’s Moscone Center in 2024
Written by Kevin Truong
Published Jul. 06, 2023
Two major tech conferences have decided to pull out of San Francisco’s Moscone Center in 2024, another speed bump in the city’s struggle to restore Downtown business activity to pre-pandemic levels.
The Red Hat Summit 2024, an annual four-day meeting meant to convene thousands of enterprise software professionals, decided to decamp from San Francisco to Denver. Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM, is billing the event as the first time the summit has been held in the central United States. ...
In another bit of bad news, Meta has decided to cancel its Business Group Summit scheduled for March 2024, according to the San Francisco Travel Association. The news about conference pullouts, originally reported by the San Francisco Business Times, is another blow to what is shaping up to be a difficult year when it comes to Moscone Center bookings.
San Francisco Walgreens NOW resorts to CHAINING freezers to stop shoplifters
Patrick says
San Francisco Walgreens NOW resorts to CHAINING freezers to stop shoplifters
Thieves could make short work of those chains using the same battery powered tool they use to steal catalytic converters.
East Bay...doesn't count...not news.
1337irr says
East Bay...doesn't count...not news.
When you say "East Bay," does that mean easter SF bordering the bay, or the area between Oakland and Fremont on the eastern bay shore?
Video: Car plummets over Sanchez Street steps in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's the kind of crash you might see in a Hollywood movie.
A car barreled through a guardrail on a dead-end street in San Francisco's Dolores Heights, flew down an embankment, knocked down a tree and landed upside down. It happened at 19th and Sanchez Streets around 7:20 p.m. on Saturday.
A neighbor described the scene to KPIX.
"There was a woman pulling out a guy, all bloody, and the guy had a full face mask, all black, dressed in black. She was in black, red hair, yelling at them 'we have 3 minutes till the cops come, we have 3 minutes, hurry up!'" said Michael Perez who lives nearby. "There was another guy and there was another guy still stuck in the car and they were, like, 'just leave him, leave him!"
San Francisco police said everyone inside the car fled the scene and officers have, so far, not located them. ...
"We saw what was going on. There was bottles of alcohol pouring out of their car and they were all bloodied and you could tell they were up to no good," Perez said. "They were vandals, you could tell by the way they were dressed, spilling out of their car. They didn't want our help. She said 'don't touch me!'"
Giorgi Kvirkvia was working on a car by his garage when he heard the noise. He also rushed over to the scene and he spoke to a man who said he had just been carjacked.
"According to him, they basically kicked him out of his car -- a couple of minutes before -- somewhere down the block," he said. "He kind of fought them and, in the end, they hit him in the head, I think, with a gun. That's what he said. When they were fighting his shirt got torn and I saw that his shirt was torn."
Kvirkvia said police told him they also found a gun at the scene.
"I think it's a great example of how the lawlessness in San Francisco has real impact on the actual citizens and neighbors who live in the city. And so, I hope this is a little bit of a wakeup call to our politicians that we need to prosecute crimes, have more police officers."
It’s “Groundhog Day” meets “The Road.” Early in the morning, white vans come by his place and stack the bodies on multiple layers of metallic trays. Welcome to modern-day America.
“This humanitarian crisis,” Stallcup said, “is a fentanyl genocide.”
He’s right. It is. In San Francisco, there is a death by fentanyl overdose every 10 hours, on average.
Naked Woman Flashes Knife, Fires Gun at Cars Stuck in Bay Bridge Traffic, CHP Says
The Bay Bridge reopened after a brief closure Tuesday evening due to a knife-wielding, gun-brandishing naked woman shooting at cars stuck in traffic, according to authorities.
All lanes were closed at 5:25 p.m. and all but one was reopened at 5:41 p.m., a California Highway Patrol spokesperson told The Standard.
The incident was first reported to CHP around 4:40 p.m. when a driver told dispatchers a woman was brandishing a gun while driving recklessly in the eastbound lanes, authorities said Tuesday evening.
The woman allegedly stopped, got out of the car with a knife and was "yelling at other drivers," CHP said.
After getting back in her car and driving a short distance, she stopped again near the toll plaza and got out of her car fully naked and holding a gun, authorities said.
"Callers advised that she was carrying a firearm (pistol) and that she began firing shots into the air and then at occupied vehicles stopped in the backup," the CHP spokesperson told The Standard around 7 p.m.
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Woman escapes apparent armed carjacking or robbery attempt near Skyline & Keller in Oakland hills. 2 guys in Dodge Charger block her, and she drives around them as one opens fire.
NAACP Urges ‘Whites, Asians, and Latinos to Speak Out Against Crime – It Is Not Racist to Want to Be Safe’
In a damning letter, Oakland’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branch called for a state of emergency to end the California city’s “intolerable public safety crisis.”
The organization cites “failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police.”
A San Francisco Safeway with new receipt-scanning security gates continues to see high rates of daily theft despite the increased shoplifting measures, staff say.
“I’d say 60 to 100 [thefts] on my shift alone,” said a security guard at the 3350 Mission St. Safeway, who spoke anonymously because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
A worker at the Bernal Heights location said people commonly steal laundry detergent. At that Safeway, like many others, the Tide pods are under lock and key, along with toothpaste, shampoo and vitamin supplements.
“It’s a lot worse at night. During the day, it’s OK,” another Safeway employee said, also speaking anonymously because staffers are not authorized to speak to the press. The worker said shoplifters usually target items that are not food. ...
The San Francisco Police Department and Safeway did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
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