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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   158,334 views  1,037 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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694   Patrick   2023 Aug 17, 1:03pm  

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.
695   Patrick   2023 Aug 17, 7:26pm  

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.
698   Patrick   2023 Aug 19, 2:10pm  

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.
699   Patrick   2023 Aug 21, 2:55pm  

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
700   Patrick   2023 Aug 21, 3:42pm  

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?
701   Patrick   2023 Aug 21, 7:46pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/19/illegal-dumping-san-francisco-bayview-trash-piles/


Inside San Francisco’s Illegal Dumping Crisis: Buckets of Feces, Endless Trash
703   Patrick   2023 Aug 23, 5:31pm  

https://thegloriousamerican.com/law/california-store-owner-prices-all-items-at-951-so-thieves-can-be-prosecuted-7-7-23/



https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative(2014)
704   AD   2023 Aug 24, 5:30pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12436929/Nordstrom-Rack-store-robbed-california-flash-rob.html

See above link. Not San Fran, but southern California again getting hit with thug flash mobs robbing stores like Nordstrom and Macys.

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706   AD   2023 Aug 24, 5:58pm  

ad says

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12436929/Nordstrom-Rack-store-robbed-california-flash-rob.html

See above link. Not San Fran, but southern California again getting hit with thug flash mobs robbing stores like Nordstrom and Macys.

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Retail robberies and burglaries are at their highest level in more than a decade, according to an ABC7 analysis of crime data. CENTURY CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Several recent flash mob robberies have local high-end stores on alert. Aug 14, 2023

https://abc7.com/flash-mob-robbery-shoplifting-smash-and-grab-retail-theft/13650590/#:~:text=Retail%20robberies%20and%20burglaries%20are,high%2Dend%20stores%20on%20alert.
707   Ceffer   2023 Aug 24, 6:46pm  

The KommieKunts are rewarding their deputized Visigoths with plunder.
708   RWSGFY   2023 Aug 24, 7:29pm  

ad says

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12436929/Nordstrom-Rack-store-robbed-california-flash-rob.html

See above link. Not San Fran, but southern California again getting hit with thug flash mobs robbing stores like Nordstrom and Macys.

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Fucking 🇳🇪🇳🇪
709   AD   2023 Aug 24, 8:52pm  

RWSGFY says

Fucking 🇳🇪🇳🇪


Yeah India



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710   Patrick   2023 Aug 25, 7:54pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/24/san-francisco-car-break-in-crackdown-police-bipping/


The crackdown comes as the city grapples with high rates of car break-ins, with San Francisco seeing over 22,000 reported last year, according to SFPD data.


That's 60 a day, and those are only the ones reported to the feckless police.
711   AD   2023 Aug 25, 10:33pm  

Patrick says

The crackdown comes as the city grapples with high rates of car break-ins, with San Francisco seeing over 22,000 reported last year, according to SFPD data.

That's 60 a day, and those are only the ones reported to the feckless polic


Wonder how much California car insurance rates have been affected by this.
712   HeadSet   2023 Aug 26, 8:04am  

ad says

Wonder how much California car insurance rates have been affected by this.

Rate may stay low if the deductibles are high enough they do not cover a smashed window.
714   1337irr   2023 Aug 27, 7:46pm  

Ceffer says



https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/34806

I know Del...I wonder why he protested this tour.
715   Patrick   2023 Aug 28, 11:41am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/robbers-announce-they-may-have-to-leave-san-francisco-because-everythings-been-robbed



The joke is lacking because the majority of the robbers are black, yet the image shows only whites.
716   AD   2023 Aug 28, 12:17pm  

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I love how Nordstrom states they are closing their San Fran store because the area's "dynamics" have changed.

This is as cowardly and disingenuous of a statement as not admitting the actual demographics of those who are stealing from stores like this.

https://fortune.com/2023/08/28/nordstrom-closes-san-francisco-store-downtown-market-street-remote-work/

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717   Ceffer   2023 Aug 28, 12:39pm  

ad says

This is as cowardly and disingenuous of a statement

They preferred "We are closing because of the hordes of deputized KommieKunt drug addicts and homeless and ghetto feral grammar school wash outs left free to prey and rob on the streets of San Francisco by the Soros Fecal Impaction apparatchiks installed by stolen elections", but in the Das Kapital of political correctness, a bit of euphemism was called for.
719   AD   2023 Aug 28, 3:50pm  

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They could force us to online shopping.

We order and then pick up, or we show up and fill out a form and then wait for it to be handed to us by employees.

There is no direct access to the store merchandise whether it is food, clothing, electronics, etc.

It is one way to reduce theft just like an alarm system and locked doors are somewhat of a way to reduce theft.

The only concern retail would have then is internal theft (i.e., inside job), which is all part of retail's shrinkage accounting.

Walmart reportedly has a shrinkage rate of 2% of sales.

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721   Patrick   2023 Aug 29, 1:42pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/stormy-weather-tuesday-august-29


Next, some news from the controlled demolition of San Fransisco, in two recent New York Post headlines.

First, from August 25th (last Friday):




Guess how many of the people who looted the San Fransisco Nordstrom location have been arrested? I’ll give you a hint: fewer people than were arrested for San Fransisco mask violations. Actually, it was zero. Zero arrests.

Next, four days later, yesterday’s headline (Monday):




A sad day indeed. And not just because the San Fransisco store was considered Nordstrom’s “flagship” store and had been operating for 35 years.

Why don’t they just rip off the band aid and go ahead and make shoplifting legal in California?

The good news is Nordstrom’s departure will depress real estate prices even more, allowing oligarchs a chance to buy the insanely-valuable downtown properties up for pennies on the dollar, after which the City can suddenly begin prosecuting its brownshirts, I mean criminals, again. It’s like Lahaina, except slower.

But wait! There’s a ready solution to all this crime that’s destroying our once-grand cities! Smart cities. Or Fifteen-minute cities, or whatever you call it. Where everything you need is located right where you live, right in your own high-rise prison, I mean skyscraper.

Who wants to bet we’ll be hearing about turning San Fransisco into a smart city soon?
722   AD   2023 Aug 29, 1:58pm  

Patrick says

The good news is Nordstrom’s departure will depress real estate prices even more, allowing oligarchs a chance to buy the insanely-valuable downtown properties up for pennies on the dollar,


I see as this is a planned cycle for the oligarchs to buy at fire sale prices and then demand reforms which stop the conditions that caused the fire sale prices.

That means the oligarchs have to have that much control over the loony left wing politicians to get them to effectively implement these reforms.

And this also includes control over the local media.

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723   Ceffer   2023 Aug 29, 3:29pm  

I could believe the fire sale scam. However, how do the fire sale artists unlodge the faked election cycles and the moron apparatchiks, and then clean up the drug and homeless infestations? There has to be something to attract the business back to improve valuations.
724   Shaman   2023 Aug 29, 3:31pm  

Ceffer says

I could believe the fire sale scam. However, how do the fire sale artists unlodge the faked election cycles and the moron apparatchiks, and then clean up the drug and homeless infestations? There has to be something to attract the business back to improve valuations.


It’s white envelope politics.
Policies will magically be fixed once the right owners are installed.
Why elect someone to enact policies when you can just bribe existing politicians to enact the policies you prefer?
725   AD   2023 Aug 29, 3:35pm  

Ceffer says


There has to be something to attract the business back to improve valuations.


Its a gradual cycle, like when white liberal hipsters and gay artists take over a depressed area and it takes 5 to 10 years for it to get gentrified.

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726   HeadSet   2023 Aug 29, 4:45pm  

Ceffer says

However, how do the fire sale artists unlodge the faked election cycles and the moron apparatchiks, and then clean up the drug and homeless infestations?

The same way they make all the homeless disappear on streets where a Dem VIP will be coming through.
727   Patrick   2023 Aug 29, 5:27pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/28/san-franciscos-market-for-mansions-for-the-ultra-rich-have-taken-a-dive/


After an overheated pandemic peak, home sales and sales prices across all segments have dipped—but the city’s most expensive homes have taken an even steeper dive. ...

A property at 3410 Jackson St. in Presidio Heights was put on the market in February at $23.5 million before eventually selling at $18.5 million in May.

Less than a mile away in Cow Hollow, a property at 2660 Scott St. that was listed for sale in January at $16.5 million sold in July at $13 million.

In Sea Cliff, a property at 9 25th Ave. that first went on the market last September at a $32 million asking price, saw a series of price drops before selling in April for $20 million. ...

In July, the median price per square foot for homes over $5 million in San Francisco was $1,468, a more than 20% decline from the number one year prior, based off three-month rolling data.

Sales for homes over $5 million in San Francisco are down 56% year to date in 2023 compared with a year prior. ...

Brokers like Stiewe attributed some of the drop-off in San Francisco to larger concerns among residents about urban problems like homelessness and public safety. ...

Lazier said she’s found high-net-worth families moving to San Francisco, drawn by the city’s strong labor market and tech industry, have taken to renting expensive properties instead of buying. ...
729   HeadSet   2023 Aug 29, 6:55pm  

Patrick says

Cow Hollow, a property at 2660 Scott St. that was listed for sale in January at $16.5 million sold in July at $13 million.

Somehow, "Cow Hollow" and "$13 million" do not seem to go together.
730   AD   2023 Aug 29, 7:29pm  

Patrick says

Sales for homes over $5 million in San Francisco are down 56% year to date in 2023 compared with a year prior. ...


Seems like the same type of price crash occurred back in 2008 -2011 for high end homes in overpriced zip codes like San Fran.

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731   AD   2023 Aug 29, 7:39pm  

Check this home out. It only appreciated about 4% over the last 20 years. I recall Robert Shiller stating the median home value should appreciate annually about 4% over the long run. Maybe San Fran is going through some residential real estate value adjustment for various reasons such as local crime.
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732   Ceffer   2023 Aug 29, 7:43pm  

I can't believe the prices are still that high. I guess a few of the unscathed survivors need to get poopinated or mugged out of their SF urban fantasy to drop prices further. Better to leave with the shit on your face than wait for the Homeless Rapture.
733   AD   2023 Aug 31, 10:55am  

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https://fortune.com/2023/08/30/marc-benioff-salesforce-ceo-dreamforce-san-francisco-may-move/

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, $CRM, has said that the future of his company’s massive Dreamforce conference in San Francisco could be jeopardized if it’s affected by the city’s homelessness and drug use challenges next month.

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