patrick.net

https://slaynews.com/news/naacp-urges-whites-asians-and-latinos-to-speak-out-against-crime-and-stop-allowing-themselves-to-be-shamed-into-silence-it-is-not-racist-or-unkind-to-want-to-be-safe-from-crime/

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.”

NAACP lacks all compassion, and is clearly racist.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/31/safeway-gates-fail-security-rampant-daily-theft/

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.

Bum fight in SF. I wonder who was victorious and walked away with the drugs. They have these bum fights all the time in Santa Cruz.

So, we see the slow, painful awakening process at last in the local blogs. Shockingly, it wasn't censored yet. It might still, but the censors were fast and furious just a few months ago. Also, you see the knee jerk LibbyFucks still defending the ramparts against all observation. This is from the Tri Valley local blog. I would say a year ago, you would have only heard from idiotic CaliFuck Libtards. Used to be anybody suggesting Soros or rigged elections were removed right away.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/02/bay-area-mail-at-risk-after-series-of-mail-carrier-robberies/

Thousands of Bay Area residents' mail is at risk after three postal workers were robbed in separate incidents last week in San Francisco, the East Bay and South Bay, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Found this California red in store outside of California.
It's not that difficult to imagine how it taste.

REpro says

It's not that difficult to imagine how it taste.

Like MadDog (MD) 20 20

In high school my pal got wasted off that, puked on my balcony and it ate the finish clean off.

just_passing_through says

REpro says

It's not that difficult to imagine how it taste.

Like MadDog (MD) 20 20

In high school my pal got wasted off that, puked on my balcony and it ate the finish clean off.

Have you actually tasted MadDog 20/20 ?

I bought a bottle as a joke. I drank, possibly a shot glass of it, and couldn't drink anymore. I poured the rest down the toilet and went to bed. The next day I met up with a friend and the first thing he asked was "were you drinking last night?". I only had that shot, and the liquor in it is so bad, that you will reek the next day.

It is the most undrinkable alcohol on the planet.

richwicks says

Have you actually tasted MadDog 20/20 ?

Yeah, I drank some of what he was drinking but not very much and never again. Alcohol is a tight commodity when you're a sophomore in high school.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/dismissed-narcotics-cases-probe-san-francisco-officer/3293904/?_osource=patrick.net

An emerging scandal surrounding a San Francisco narcotics officer has put dozens of criminal drug cases in jeopardy.

NBC Bay Area investigative reporter Hilda Gutierrez has been looking through the dismissed cases in San Francisco and Alameda County and has more on why they’re suddenly being dropped.

Didn't even know they had any sort of drug enforcement there.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12402379/San-Francisco-dying-video-shows-mass-exodus-huge-brands-like-Crate-Barrel-CVS-Office-Depot-crime-ridden-city-caught-doom-loop.html

just_passing_through says

Yeah, I drank some of what he was drinking but not very much and never again. Alcohol is a tight commodity when you're a sophomore in high school.

Mouthwash is contains drinkable alcohol and I would say it's no worse than Mad Dog 20/20

In a documentary about homelessness there was an emergency room where the nurses talked about treating an old homeless alcoholic guy over and over for various accidents. They called him "minty fresh" because the drink he preferred to get drunk on mouthwash, or maybe he couldn't afford anything else. So he always smelled minty fresh.

Patrick says

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12402379/San-Francisco-dying-video-shows-mass-exodus-huge-brands-like-Crate-Barrel-CVS-Office-Depot-crime-ridden-city-caught-doom-loop.html

Not San Fran, but still liberal shithole California as far as flash mobs (i.e., thug organized criminal networks)

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/08/11/ysl-glendale-flash-mob-robbery-lon-orig-cw.cnn

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Some of these are literally across the street from a place I worked on Market Street near 3rd.

https://twitter.com/MQSullivan/status/1691266732105592833

You know things are bad when the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building has fallen...
Workers in the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco were told to work from home indefinitely given conditions in the downtown area.
The building, at the intersection of Seventh and Mission streets, is home to the office of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as the local branches of several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. The area around the building has also become a notorious hotspot for open-air drug dealing.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, building workers received a memo penned by Cheryl Campbell — an assistant secretary with the Department of Health and Human Services — on Aug. 4. It advised workers to stay home “for the foreseeable future” because of crime in the area.

You know things are bad when the drug packets sold on the street are embossed with Nancy's face and/or Paul's homo erection with the LBGQT flag.

1337irr says

HeadSet says

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?

The latter.

Plus Contra Costa County and the Vallejo Benicia are of Solano County.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/14/man-accused-of-stripping-naked-flooding-high-rise-to-face-felony-charge/

Man Accused of Stripping Naked, Flooding San Francisco High-Rise To Face Felony Charge
Written by Kevin Truong
Published Aug. 14, 2023

A San Francisco judge denied a motion to reduce the felony vandalism charges against a man accused of getting naked in his high-rise apartment building and intentionally flooding the property, causing millions in damages and leading to the evacuation and relocation of hundreds of his neighbors.

In addition to the felony vandalism charge, Michael Nien also faces a misdemeanor charge of tampering with a fire alarm. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

In explaining her decision, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Rochelle East cited the “scope of the damage and the impact on the other victims.”

“It would be hard to imagine what felony vandalism would be if not a case like this,” East said.

Early in the morning of Oct. 11, 2022, Nien allegedly got naked and ran up and down the hallways of his 418-unit apartment building at 100 Van Ness Ave. banging on the doors of his neighbors, according to a police report of the incident.

He then went down to the 11th floor and allegedly opened high-pressure pipes meant for use by firefighters and sent water pouring down on the lower floors. Emergency responders found Nien in what they describe as an altered mental state. He was naked, drenched in water and standing next to an open pipe.

Oz Erickson, the chairman of Emerald Fund, which owns 100 Van Ness, said the vandalism caused upward of $14 million in damage and meant that more than 200 residents of the property were forced out of their homes for months during the holidays.

Hey, I know that building! I went to a meetup there once on their nice rooftop. I think it was some language exchange thing.

Patrick says

Emergency responders found Nien in what they describe as an altered mental state.

Altered mental state? What, "stoned" is now a protected class that requires a euphemism?

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Another business close to shutting down in San Fran

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/business/gumps-store-open-letter-san-francisco/index.html

CNN
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John Chachas, the owner of luxury department store Gump’s San Francisco, wrote an open letter to Governor Newsom, Mayor London Breed, and the city’s Board of Supervisors, pleading for them to act on what he describes as the city’s worsening downtown conditions.

“Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last,” Chachas wrote in an open letter, published as a paid ad in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Gump’s, which sells luxury furnishings and jewelry, was acquired by Chachas after the retailer filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018. The high-end retailer, founded in San Francisco in 1861 and born out of the famed California gold rush, has only one physical location, which is one block from the city’s Union Square.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/the-san-francisco-doom-loop-tour-sold-out-may-come-to-nyc/

How bad have things gotten in San Francisco?

A local guide now offers a “Downtown Doom Loop Walking Tour,” to “start at City Hall, and continue through Mid-Market, the Tenderloin, and Union Square. We will view the open-air drug markets, the abandoned tech offices, the outposts of the nonprofit industrial complex, and the deserted department stores.”

It’s no joke: Thanks to the woke policies adopted by the bulk of the city’s electeds, the “doom loop” — i.e., a vicious circle where bad conditions breed taxpayer and business exodus that clears the way for even worse conditions — is all too real.

Take crime. Under woke former DA Chesa Boudin, convictions for serious crimes and quality of life offenses dropped.

One jaw-dropping figure: Just 6% of those charged with dealing drugs from 2018 to 2022 have been convicted.

Now, Whole Foods has shuttered its flagship location, retail goods are regularly locked or chained up, and small business owners are assaulted for daring to stand up to street thugs.

Things have gotten so bad that Uncle Sam is officially scared: The Department of Health and Human Services office in downtown SF recently advised its employees to work from home rather than risk falling victim to street crime.

San Francisco ‘doom loop’ walking tour gets visitors ‘close and personal to the squalor’ — and it’s already sold out
That the building these workers will now be avoiding is named after Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would be a hilarious irony, if it weren’t a tragedy.

Homelessness? Another massive problem. It’s up 35% since 2019, with about 38,000 individuals homeless on any given night.

The progressive response? A lawsuit by the Coalition for the Homeless that resulted in a federal injunction against clearing encampments.

Combine that with the city’s lax drug posture (a new diversion program by new DA Brooke Jenkins, for example, has been a miserable failure) and the result?

Open-air drug markets where dealers hawk fentanyl and other poisons as they prey on the vulnerable in total safety from real consequences.

No wonder famed comedian Dave Chappelle asked, “What the f— happened to this place?” in a recent show.

You don't really need to pay for a tour to get close to the squalor in SF.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/15/iconic-san-francisco-hotel-has-lost-90-of-its-value-owner-says/

Iconic San Francisco Hotel Has Lost 90% of Its Value, Owner Says

The Chase Center. The Westin St. Francis Hotel. The Transamerica Pyramid.

These properties are among the most iconic in San Francisco, but what they also have in common is their owners are applying for dramatic cuts in their assessed values in a worrying sign for the city’s fiscal health.

At Chase Center, property owners are attempting to cut the city’s assessed $1.48 billion value for the stadium by some 58% to $635 million.

The owner of the Transamerica Pyramid, New York developer Shvo, which purchased the building in 2020, is seeking a 53% reduction in its assessed value from $485.5 million to $227 million.

The Westin St. Francis Hotel owners are applying for a more than 90% decrease in its assessed value of $787 million all the way down to $76 million.

I was just thinking that all of SF's problems flow directly from the attitude and ideology of the residents.

Once while biking to Caltrain after work in SF, I got stuck in a "Critical Mass" mob of bicycles. They were deliberately blocking traffic by biking in a large group. They were just pissing off the drivers and making nothing better at all. They assumed I was one of them but I just wanted to get out of their group as quickly as possible. They had an attitude of vengeance for something, but I'm not sure what.

That same attitude of vengeance is the engine for BLM, Antifa, militant feminism, trannyism, and Chesa Boudin's disastrous prosecution policies, which continue destroying SF even though he is no longer there.

It's an emotional war, not one about rationality or facts, so it cannot be fought with rationality or facts.

The core emotions need to be addressed for anything to get fixed, but how does one do that? The self-conception of SF residents is bound up in the pleasure of seeing themselves as "good people" seeking vengeance. They will not give up that pleasure without another pleasure to replace it. It's almost mechanical.

A Los Angeles hotel sustained $11.5 million in damages while the city used it as a federally sponsored homeless shelter.

The city included the Mayfair Hotel in Project Roomkey, a federal initiative to turn California hotels into temporary homeless shelters. At the end of the hotel's time in the program, the city quietly paid the hotel's owner to cover damages from residents. Social workers assigned to the hotel lamented its condition in emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

"Participant in 1516 Threatened staff, Security, destroyed property. Screamed. Yelled cursed. Everything went wrong with her. Inside and outside the building," one social worker wrote. Another recounted how "a male in 1526 assaulted another resident in Room 726."

The Mayfair represents the latest instance in which state and local governments have paid a huge price to address the homelessness crisis in California.

San Diego in April requested state funds to buy three hotels at $383,000 per room to house its homeless population. The city saw homelessness hit record highs in the months leading up to the purchase.

Between September 2021 and June 2022, the city of Berkeley alone removed 75 tons of garbage, drug paraphernalia, and human feces from homeless encampments. With an estimated 535 people living on the street at the time, the city removed roughly 500 pounds of waste per homeless person per year.

In July, President Joe Biden's Department of Housing and Urban Development announced its investment of $3 billion into Housing First programs across the country.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/livin-in-the-new-world-thursday-august

It has come to this. San Fransisco is becoming such a crime-ridden hellhole that even the government is throwing in the towel. Just The News ran the very ironic story yesterday headlined, “* Workers at Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco told to work from home due to crime.”

Welcome to 2023, where satirical websites like the Babylon Bee are forced to compete with real-life headlines that that one.

Earlier this month, officials at HHS advised hundreds of federal employees to work from home indefinitely rather than risk commuting to the downtown federal building, which has become a hotspot for street drug deals in recent months. There’s some kind of metaphor here, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Help is welcome in the comments.

“In light of the conditions at the (Federal Building) we recommend employees … maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future,” HHS Assistant Secretary for Administration Cheryl Campbell wrote in an August 4th memo obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

If even the federal government is fleeing San Fransisco, what hope do the residents have? Get out while you can!

Ironically, the HHS memo reportedly was issued the very same day that Joe Biden called on his cabinet to “aggressively execute” plans for federal employees to return to their offices after working remotely since the COVID-19 pandemic first began. But not in San Fransisco, apparently.

So that’s the federal government’s plan to keep its employees safe. Evacuate San Fransisco.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/16/brand-new-san-francisco-condo-complex-handed-back-to-lender/

Lenders have taken back a newly constructed condo project in Mission Bay by a prominent local architect that has sat vacant since its completion, an apparent victim of sluggish city processes and San Francisco’s challenging real estate market.

Avid Bank has assumed control of the building at 603 Tennessee St. from developer Sol Properties, according to property records, which listed the amount of unpaid debt on the property at $15.4 million.

Arcon Construction Group, the building’s general contractor, had previously filed a lien on the property claiming around $1.07 million in unpaid construction fees. ...

According to data from real estate brokerage Compass, median condo prices in San Francisco peaked in 2021 and have fallen annually since then. Median prices have still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Additionally, federal interest rates have dramatically increased over the last year, making financing prohibitively expensive for many.

https://babylonbee.com/news/california-achieves-worlds-first-crime-rate-of-zero-as-all-crime-is-legal-now

Patrick says

https://babylonbee.com/news/california-achieves-worlds-first-crime-rate-of-zero-as-all-crime-is-legal-now

Anarcho tyranny humor

https://www.maxmeyer.blog/p/the-state-of-things-in-coffee-shop?publication_id=162689&post_id=136220204&isFreemail=true

San Francisco refuses to arrest criminals. San Francisco refuses to get the homeless off the street. It makes the coffee business difficult — because if you think a $4 coffee is theft, you haven’t seen what owners go through here.

The list of closed San Francisco businesses is an ever-growing document. In June, a beloved coffee shop called HRD Coffee in SoMa (South of Market) closed. It has been in San Francisco since the 1950s. Guy Fieri visited in 2010.

Again, the pandemic didn’t help. But neither did the city. The owner says he was refused permission to create a parklet for outdoor dining. The office-working lunchtime crowd disappeared in 2020 and never returned.

The owner said it better than I can show it: “I would love to remain in San Francisco as a business. But the question is, would any sane person?"

On a nearby street in SoMa, the Bay Area’s own Blue Bottle Coffee shut down its second oldest location in the city. Whole Foods — another favorite in the Bay Area — closed its massive Market St. location after just a year being open.

Most Starbucks cafes in the City by the Bay have done away with chairs. Starbucks can’t admit the cause of this outright (for political reasons) but everyone knows why: chairs in the cafe are an invitation for drug-addicted homeless people to indefinitely occupy the space. The same is true with bathrooms.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12429995/Council-meeting-affluent-San-Francisco-neighborhood-descends-chaos-residents-protest-turning-hotel-homes-100-homeless-people.html

Council meeting in affluent San Francisco neighborhood descends into chaos as residents protest turning hotel into homes for 100 homeless people
San Mateo officials want to place 100 homeless people in La Quinta hotel
Hundreds of Millbrae residents packed out a meeting to protest the plans
They drowned out speakers with booing in scenes akin to a sports stadium

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/water-gods-monday-august-21-2023

The controlled demolition of San Fransisco continues. A video clip making the rounds this weekend shows a San Fransisco woman who reported an unpleasant encounter with an unpleasant individual while shopping:

https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1688432633745666048

One can forgive her for asking her assailant the ridiculous Karenic question, “did you just spit in my face??” Although the type of person who will spit in your face is clearly unlikely to engage in a reasonable debate about it, she was shocked after all. A more compelling issue is that one wishes to ask whether she voted for the policies that created the environment where random men spit in her face in the first place.

One suspects that she did.

The thug’s threat to “rape” her constitutes the crime of assault, and spitting in her face is battery, both of which in normal times would have resulted in a arrest and prosecution. But note very well that the woman in the clip doesn’t even mention police. She never even called them. Why not?

Maybe because she knows that, after sixteen rounds of “defunding,” and after watching thousands of low-level criminals be not prosecuted, police won’t — or can’t — do anything about it?