14
0

San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


 invite response                
2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   157,309 views  1,030 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (60)   💰tip   ignore  

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.



« First        Comments 742 - 781 of 1,030       Last »     Search these comments

743   Patrick   2023 Sep 6, 1:23pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/literal-chaos-wednesday-september


In case you were wondering about exactly who in San Fransisco is in favor of the city’s controlled demolition, last week a group of totally-sane citizens led by San Fransisco’s most liberal Supervisor Dean Preston held a rally at City Hall in favor of looser drug enforcement.



... Among other notable accomplishments, after his election to the board, Supervisor Preston passed legislation making it illegal to evict tenants during the pandemic. Here’s one example of an earnest, non-ironic sign from the rally:



So far, these barely-functioning people are somehow winning in California’s most iconic city. This photo illustrates San Fransisco’s current status:



It looks a whole lot like there’s no drug enforcement. Yet the protestors and Supervisor Preston called for looser drug enforcement. How is that even possible? Do they want the city to install fentanyl vending machines or something?
745   AD   2023 Sep 6, 7:50pm  

.

yep, Booger ... its Cloward Piven Strategy and anarcho tyranny tactics

.
746   Ceffer   2023 Sep 7, 10:01pm  

Sunset Beach: for those who think the problem is just downtown. It's spreading all over the bay area into the suburbs.
747   AD   2023 Sep 7, 11:36pm  

Ceffer says

Sunset Beach: for those who think the problem is just downtown. It's spreading all over the bay area into the suburbs.


smash and grab is one of the organized thugs' modus operandi

.
748   HeadSet   2023 Sep 8, 8:34am  

Ceffer says

Sunset Beach: for those who think the problem is just downtown. It's spreading all over the bay area into the suburbs.


That happened to me in France. We parked a Chrysler minivan and took a short walk through a park. When we returned to the van, we found someone had used a lock puller on the driver side door and took one of the womans' purse. We found the purse in the trash about a block away with all the money and credit cards missing. This happened in a nice area in Provence about 1995.
749   RWSGFY   2023 Sep 8, 8:55am  

Everybody in the Southern parts of Europe knows not to leave anything in the car.
750   mell   2023 Sep 8, 9:07am  

RWSGFY says

Everybody in the Southern parts of Europe knows not to leave anything in the car.

Theft in Southern Europe is fairly low compared to demonrat destroyed cities such as SF. France maybe, Italy has hardly any theft, not sure about Spain
751   RWSGFY   2023 Sep 8, 9:22am  

mell says


RWSGFY says


Everybody in the Southern parts of Europe knows not to leave anything in the car.

Theft in Southern Europe is fairly low compared to demonrat destroyed cities such as SF. France maybe, Italy has hardly any theft, not sure about Spain



Don't have the numbers to compare (share yours), but I was warned to keep the car completely empty every time I visited Rome, Paris, Florence etc. in the 90s, 00s and 10s. Never been to Spain but it's a known fact that people get their purses and camera bags snatched off their shoulder by scooter-riding cunts there. We are shocked by this kind of stuff now, because it's not the norm for us yet, but it is and has been pretty common in Europe for a long time. It is ruled by demon rats after all and being soft on crime has been their schtick since at least 70s..
752   mell   2023 Sep 8, 9:47am  

RWSGFY says


Don't have the numbers to compare (share yours), but I was warned to keep the car completely empty every time I visited Rome, Paris, Florence etc. in the 90s, 00s and 10s. Never been to Spain but it's a known fact that people get their purses and camera bags snatched off their shoulder by scooter-riding cunts there. We are shocked by this kind of stuff now, because it's not the norm for us yet, but it is and has been pretty common in Europe for a long time. It is ruled by demon rats after all and being soft on crime has been their schtick since at least 70s..

I spent a lot of time in Italy, I have never seen or heard of anybody getting their purse snatched, this is a strangely romanticized notion of Italy, and it may have been the case in the 1950s to 1970s, but not after that. When I was younger, I forgot a lot of stuff, left expensive jeans jackets and wallets in bars/cafes, only to have everything returned/picked up at the local police station. Italians generally do not steal or rob, and violent crime is almost exclusively committed by immigrants. Also nobody will still your bike in Europe, even nice ones. Thieves do target upper class vehicles and baggage/clothes/wearables sometimes. France has a known problem with immigrants and theft/robbery, however the nice parts of southern France I can only see high income tourists flashing it being stolen from. I looked up "official" rates, and it seems like theft is higher in Italy than in the US as a total, but robbery significantly lower. So yeah, maybe a few more skilled pickpockets, but I would say the reporting rate in the US is likely near an all time low since you're not only not being helped (not even report taken), you may be labeled as raycyst for reporting thefts.
753   Patrick   2023 Sep 8, 10:01am  

Barcelona has to be theft capital of Europe. Just about everyone I've talked to who's been there has been robbed there, both purse snatchings and theft of things when they weren't looking.
754   1337irr   2023 Sep 8, 10:06am  

Patrick says


Barcelona has to be theft capital of Europe. Just about everyone I've talked to who's been there has been robbed there, both purse snatchings and theft of things when they weren't looking.

I be curious how this relates to prison populations in various countries. They say the US is #1 in prison population, but it seems like we prosecute robberies which is good for society.
755   stereotomy   2023 Sep 8, 10:37am  

HeadSet says


That happened to me in France. We parked a Chrysler minivan and took a short walk through a park. When we returned to the van, we found someone had used a lock puller on the driver side door and took one of the womans' purse. We found the purse in the trash about a block away with all the money and credit cards missing. This happened in a nice area in Provence about 1995.

In the early 90's I was traveling with a woman (who I was not fucking), we took a train to Tuscany, and the criminals used sleeping gas to knock out the passengers so that they could rifle through everyone's loosely attached belongings. I had my cash hanging around my neck under all my layers of clothihng; she left her cash out and got taken to the cleaners. She was english BTW, so no love lost here.
756   Ceffer   2023 Sep 8, 10:50am  

My one Euro journey, we were warned about pickpockets and Gypsies. Never encountered such, kept my minimal stuff close to the bod.

When we drove from Switzerland to Italy, at a gas station, a guy came up to me with heavy accented English with a very expensive and genuine looking gold jewelry watch. He said he was a Communist, as if he had liberated it from the ruling classes, and offered it for a few hundred bucks. It was moot, because I didn't have a few hundred bucks, anyway.
757   mell   2023 Sep 8, 2:52pm  

stereotomy says


HeadSet says


That happened to me in France. We parked a Chrysler minivan and took a short walk through a park. When we returned to the van, we found someone had used a lock puller on the driver side door and took one of the womans' purse. We found the purse in the trash about a block away with all the money and credit cards missing. This happened in a nice area in Provence about 1995.

In the early 90's I was traveling with a woman (who I was not fucking), we took a train to Tuscany, and the criminals used sleeping gas to knock out the passengers so that they could rifle through everyone's loosely attached belongings. I had my cash hanging around my neck under all my layers of clothihng; she left her cash out and got taken to the cleaners. She was english BTW, so no love lost here.


This is crazy, never heard of anything like this. Are you sure it was sleeping gas and not a few too many bottles of cheap Lambrusco? How did they do this? Sit in front of the individual cabins and pump in the gas, or was it the entire sleeping section?
758   Patrick   2023 Sep 8, 3:03pm  

mell says

This is crazy, never heard of anything like this. Are you sure it was sleeping gas


I remember hearing stories of that during my two years in Europe.

Ceffer says

My one Euro journey, we were warned about pickpockets and Gypsies.


One you recognize them, you see them begging all over, especially in Italy. They are also here in the SF Bay Area.

Usually a heavy Indian-looking woman in a long patterned skirt sitting with a baby on a corner. Sadly, I have never seen one this hot:



I'll try to remember to post a photo here next time I see one.
759   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2023 Sep 8, 4:20pm  

Living it up in Hotel California! (Arson Target)

761   Patrick   2023 Sep 16, 3:23pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/15/san-francisco-supervisor-sharon-lai/


More than a year before the November 2024 election, the race for who will represent Downtown San Francisco on the Board of Supervisors is heating up.

Sharon Lai, a former transportation official, announced Friday morning that she will run to represent District 3, which covers the northeast covers of the city, including the Financial District, Chinatown, North Beach, Nob Hill and Russian Hill.

Lai, a Chinese American immigrant, is hardly new to city politics. She worked for the Planning Department earlier in her career and served on the board of directors of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency from 2020 to 2022. She later resigned from the board position to pursue a master's degree at Harvard University. Upon graduating in May 2023, she moved back to the city and currently works for the World Economic Forum, an international lobbying nonprofit.
764   AD   2023 Sep 26, 3:26pm  

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/target-says-it-will-close-nine-stores-citing-violence-and-theft-.html

See above. Target shutting down in New York City, Seattle, Portland and San Fran-sicko
766   HeadSet   2023 Sep 27, 9:39am  

Patrick says



Having businesses responsible to maintain the public walkways and even boulevards in front of their shops is not new. Not even unusual for the city to require landscaping. Such requirements and "proffers" are nationwide.
767   richwicks   2023 Sep 27, 7:09pm  

HeadSet says

Patrick says




Having businesses responsible to maintain the public walkways and even boulevards in front of their shops is not new. Not even unusual for the city to require landscaping. Such requirements and "proffers" are nationwide.


In this case, the property needs to be given to the landowner responsible for maintaining it.

What does the government do anyhow? If they do nothing, why do we need it?
768   AD   2023 Sep 27, 8:31pm  

HeadSet says

Having businesses responsible to maintain the public walkways and even boulevards in front of their shops is not new. Not even unusual for the city to require landscaping. Such requirements and "proffers" are nationwide.


What does the property plat show as far as this sidewalk ? It would be on file with the county property appraiser and included as improved or extra property features as far as total property taxes.

I heard that bureaucrat in the mask say they would be fined $1000 if they did not clean the oil stains from the sidewalk. If they don't have ownership of it, then they should not have to maintain it.

The only comparison I can think of is that some municipalities require removal of snow from public sidewalks in front of their homes, and failure to do so would result in a fine.

.
769   HeadSet   2023 Sep 28, 1:31pm  

ad says

I heard that bureaucrat in the mask say they would be fined $1000 if they did not clean the oil stains from the sidewalk. If they don't have ownership of it, then they should not have to maintain it.

Businesses have plenty of extras that one could consider "should nots." A tools tax (includes computers), a gross receipts tax, restrictions on who you can hire or fire, and other rules based on "convenience and necessity."
770   Patrick   2023 Oct 2, 11:29am  

https://www.leefang.com/p/san-francisco-supervisor-uses-trust?publication_id=1239256&post_id=137585090&isFreemail=true&r=6gdz


San Francisco Supervisor Uses Trust Fund to Finance 'Abolish the Police' Groups

Supervisor Dean Preston not only pushes abolish the police, he uses his family's wealth to promote the agenda in the Bay Area and beyond.




... Preston, a self-described socialist, controls the Arch Community Fund, a charitable foundation backed by his family’s considerable wealth, that he uses to distribute money to activist groups. The fund, formed in 2017 through over $5 million in corporate stock donated by the Preston family, is not mentioned in Preston’s official biography or his campaign website.

But the trust fund wealth has gone to groups that not only share Preston’s values but have protested and amplified the city leader’s efforts to remake the criminal justice system.

The Arch Community Fund has donated $110,000 to the “Anti Police Terror Project,” a group that seeks “to radically transform — and eventually abolish — police and policing.” APTP has mobilized rallies to demand cuts to police funding in the Bay Area, despite surging crime.
771   Ceffer   2023 Oct 2, 12:01pm  

Preston is a Globalist shill, likely family is another subversive store front, mini Soros or a Soros apparatchik. Scratch 'n sniff and you will likely find East Coast Sabbatean Frankism.

Not a socialist or interested in justice at all, of course, simply the usual virtue signaling inversions, an ambassador of secular feudalism and the joys of human suffering and sacrifice under central control after destroying all rights and democratic process. Never met a government or social organization didn't want to undermine or disintegrate for the hell of it.
772   AD   2023 Oct 2, 11:44pm  

.

from organized looters to pirate thugs .. sail boats and house boats in San Fran Bay Area are being raided ....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12584341/Homeless-PIRATES-marauding-crime-ridden-San-Francisco-Bay.html

.
773   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2023 Oct 3, 1:41am  

Woman smashes windows & steals backpacks from every parked car on the corner of Broadway & Grand Avenue in Oakland, California

774   Patrick   2023 Oct 3, 2:28am  

Not just Oakland anymore. That happens in SF all the time now.
775   Misc   2023 Oct 3, 3:21am  

Still safer than taking the BART.
776   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2023 Oct 3, 4:19am  

Ceffer says


My one Euro journey, we were warned about pickpockets and Gypsies

On my first trip to Europe back in the day with my then girlfriend, who was accosted by two young Gypsy kids in a plaza in Rome. The kids were waving pages of newspaper in her face, obscuring her vision, while one of the kids was unzipping her fanny pack. I intervened and chased the kids away. One hissed at me like an animal. I spotted their minder leaning against the wall of a building acroos the plaza. It was close but they didn’t get anything.
777   AD   2023 Oct 3, 11:31am  

Patrick says

Not just Oakland anymore. That happens in SF all the time now.


It would cost $500 to repair the car rear view window, which is equal to or less than the lowest deductible for car insurance.

So this may create a new demand for secure parking spots just like paying for a space in a private parking lot or garage.

All it does it drive up costs just like in the Mexico and the rest of the 3rd world. These are costs the upper middle class and rich have to pay in order to maintain a minimum level of security and safety.
.
778   Patrick   2023 Oct 5, 9:53am  

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1709671957577560130


@ColumbiaBugle
Lol these are being passed around in Eagle Pass.

“San Francisco Welcomes Immigrants”

“Lax Shoplifting Laws”



779   Blue   2023 Oct 5, 10:35am  

Patrick says


Not just Oakland anymore. That happens in SF all the time now.

Well, last time when I spoke to cops in south bay for neighbors who were victims, they kind of give an impression that if it is less than $1k deal with insurance. Their body language indicate that they are not interested to look over the issues. Perhaps they are busy on other things. But they did catch guys in 2 different other cases and confirmed after I gave them videos involving breaking vesicles and stealing stuff from inside. btw they were nice on the phone and messages.
As long as folks elect same type of people, making and keeping same policies, things may not improve.
780   Patrick   2023 Oct 5, 10:46am  

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/10/04/despite-the-ai-hype-office-markets-in-san-francisco-silicon-valley-get-even-worse/


Despite the AI Hype, Office Markets in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Get Even Worse

by Wolf Richter • Oct 4, 2023

Availability rate in Q3 spiked to 36% in San Francisco. Sublease space nearly doubled YoY in Silicon Valley. Leasing activity collapsed. More landlords default.
781   Ceffer   2023 Oct 5, 11:31am  

Release the deputized criminals, run down prices as victims flee, buy up real estate for cheapsies, reinvigorate law and order, victims return, reap appreciation and profits.

Rinse, repeat.

They only raze with DEWs when various peasants are in the way of redevelopment. DEW contracting has become the new right of way condemnation. Boiled, exploded and powdered people are a small price to pay for inspired planning.

Do they make a blue shade of commercial tin foil?

« First        Comments 742 - 781 of 1,030       Last »     Search these comments

Please register to comment:

api   best comments   contact   latest images   memes   one year ago   random   suggestions   gaiste