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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   158,203 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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984   AD   2024 May 5, 6:05pm  

Hero status level for AntiFa

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/san-francisco-woman-stole-goods-target-19440348.php

San Francisco woman stole $60,000 in goods from one Target
985   Patrick   2024 May 12, 2:48pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/city-of-san-francisco-is-purchasing-shots-of-vodka-to-give-to-homeless-alcoholics-yes-this-is-not-the-bee


The City of San Francisco is providing free beer and vodka shots to homeless alcoholics at taxpayer expense under a little-known pilot program.
990   WookieMan   2024 May 16, 4:00am  

Patrick says





Never, ever give an alcoholic hard booze like vodka. That will ALWAYS compound the issue and make it worse. Has anyone on San Francisco's board met or known an alcoholic?? Or are they drunk themselves? Usually you put a link in if it's Babylon Bee or whatever site that is, so not sure if this is satire or for real. If real, whoever decided this should be jailed today.
991   Ceffer   2024 May 16, 10:55am  

The Homeless Industrial Complex. When you need to launder tax money in a hurry back to government political pockets. The horror of homelessness stuffed in the face of the public makes it look like ALTRUISM.


https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/just-walked-from-soma-to-hayes-valley-through-market-st-and-easily-sketchiest

992   HeadSet   2024 May 16, 6:22pm  

WookieMan says

If real, whoever decided this should be jailed today.

For every seemingly irrational act, see who profits. Such as, who is it that got the contact to supply this alcohol?
993   RayAmerica   2024 May 21, 10:03am  

Benny Johnson Exposes Democrats’ Ghettoization Of America In The ‘Most Dangerous’ TARGET Store (VIDEO)

Suggestion: as you watch this video, listen to Tony Bennet's 'I Left My Heart in San Fransisco.'

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/benny-johnson-exposes-democrats-ghettoization-america-most-dangerous/
994   Patrick   2024 May 30, 7:07pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/29/hayes-valley-restaurant-robbed-soft-launch-day/


Thieves used trash cans and a crowbar to smash into a new Hayes Valley restaurant and make off with $20,000 in liquor and equipment—on the same day, the new fusion spot was supposed to hold a soft opening event.

Xebec was due to open Tuesday evening on Gough Street in Hayes Valley. But before owner Georges Hawawini arrived that morning, a chef had already called him to say they'd been robbed.

“He called me and said, ‘Did you take all the equipment to the other location?’ I said ‘no!’” Hawawini said. “He’s like, ‘Oh my God, we’ve been robbed.’”


Democrats getting exactly what they voted for.
997   Patrick   2024 Jun 30, 11:00am  

You beat me to it, but here's another version:


998   Ceffer   2024 Jun 30, 1:05pm  

LOL! Perhaps an ulterior motive is also to reduce armed robbery of the liquor stores and fast marts and putting them out of business. They all sell addictive shit, like vape and nicotine products, as well as lottery tickets and alcohol. There are several addiction industries going on in these stores, and California loves the slush from lottery tickets, too.

The few times I go into the gas station store in Santa Cruz down on the corner, there are these surly, fat soy hippie dudes with wispy beards and porcine bellies dispensing vapes, cigarettes, pipes, booze and lottery tickets. It's a one stop minor vice shop. It's kinna depressing.
Patrick says




999   yawaraf   2024 Jun 30, 1:38pm  

Are the stolen goods signs for real? I can't find anything on Google.
1000   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2024 Jun 30, 4:18pm  

yawaraf says

Are the stolen goods signs for real? I can't find anything on Google.


google isn’t internet, it’s intranet. censored like China
1002   RayAmerica   2024 Jul 4, 10:08am  

Elderly woman who died after being pushed into BART train identified

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A homeless man is accused of pushing a 74-year-old woman into a Bay Area Rapid Transit train, resulting in her death, according to BART officials. The elderly woman was pushed into a Millbrae-bound train inside the Powell Street Station in San Francisco at 11:06 p.m. Monday, officials said.

The victim was identified as Corazon Dandan of San Mateo County, according to the SF Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The train was approaching the station when Dandan was pushed, hit her head on the train, and fell on the platform, transit officials said. She was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and later died.

BART Police Department officers reacted quickly and arrested a homeless man, 49-year-old Trevor Belmont, also known as Hoak Taing, on the platform immediately following the incident, BART PD said.

Belmont was booked into the San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of murder and inflicting injury on an elderly person, inmate records show. He is being held behind bars without bail.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/elderly-woman-dies-after-being-pushed-into-bart-train-suspect-arrested/
1004   WookieMan   2024 Jul 7, 7:12am  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says





Why? Just why? These people need to be put in asylums yesterday. I don't care about choosing to watch porn online or going to a strip club or if you choose to be gay. This just wrong. You don't do that shit in public. Heard about this shit this morning.

You do that shit in front of my kids you will not walk away. I won't kill you, but you will need an ambulance.

I live in the country/rural so I don't see these types of gays. The ones I know are out of the closet, but not at all flamboyant and definitely not performing sexual acts in public. Was at the lesbian farm last night. Nothing. We just hang out. American flag. No pride flag. Just a good night with some beers and a fire. The lesbian that plays the man role needs some help with the grill though. She's failing in that role.

How the fuck did we get here? Should have kept the closet closed and not given then an entire month for their bull shit parades. Leave cities and large suburbs. I can't deal with that type of gay without getting arrested for a hate crime.
1005   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2024 Jul 7, 9:50am  

WookieMan says

Heard about this shit this morning.


Dude, this is nothing new there. Just that it happened in a nation wide gay parade month now or something. Folsom street fair is worse. About 15 years ago I saw a couple vomit in the street, one laid down in it, the other got on top and they started going at it. So gross!
1006   Booger   2024 Jul 7, 10:41am  

What are you going to do about it?
Put gays that do sex acts in public in jail?
Like jail is somehow going to make them kick the habit!
1007   The_Deplorable   2024 Jul 7, 12:36pm  

Booger says
"What are you going to do about it?
Put gays that do sex acts in public in jail?"

Yes. Or a mental asylum - whatever is appropriate.
1008   stereotomy   2024 Jul 7, 1:21pm  

I don't think it will be fire this time, at least not initially, but the Sodom of the West will fall, probably as an aftershock of the next great earthquake.
1009   AmericanKulak   2024 Jul 9, 11:49pm  




Attacks on Asian Old Ladies not racist, despite characteristics of the perps, sez LDHDTV+ Police Captain of Oakland.

https://x.com/activeasian/status/1810742739711185310
1010   Ceffer   2024 Jul 13, 1:00pm  

Definitely S. Clay Wilson grade inspiration.



1013   Ceffer   2024 Jul 15, 4:35pm  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says





Newsom has armed the recent illegal army with nets and tranquilizer guns to bring down fleeing Californians and force them back. Nothing worse than a bunch of fleabit U-Hauls in nets.

They already have propositions for taxing Californians FOR LEAVING.
1014   AD   2024 Jul 23, 11:56pm  



1015   AD   2024 Aug 16, 1:19pm  



1016   HeadSet   2024 Aug 16, 1:36pm  

AD says





It seems that restaurants in that area would just charge when the waiter takes the order. After all, one pays upon order at McDs and the like before the food is delivered.
1017   mell   2024 Aug 16, 1:40pm  

HeadSet says

AD says






It seems that restaurants in that area would just charge when the waiter takes the order. After all, one pays upon order at McDs and the like before the food is delivered.

Been to that Dennys a few late late nights back in the days
1018   Patrick   2024 Aug 26, 9:14am  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/as-businesses-flee-sf-city-cheers-musk-exit/


Things are going great in San Francisco.

A recent study from The San Francisco Standard shows that from 2019 to May 2023, San Francisco witnessed a sharp decline in its retail landscape. In Union Square alone, the number of operating stores decreased from 207 to a mere 107 and now has a shocking 47% vacancy rate.

In addition to the shocking data on retail closures, San Francisco is also grappling with an unprecedented office vacancy crisis. The San Francisco Chronicle states that there are approximately 18.4 square feet of empty office space – representing one of the most severe vacancies ever recorded in the city.

The amount of vacant office space in SF was listed as being at 30 million square feet. So obviously local officials are cheering on Elon Musk’s announcement that Twitter will be leaving the city.

“I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance,” said City Attorney David Chiu, who as a member of the city’s Board of Supervisors backed the tax break that lured Twitter to Mid-Market in 2012.

It’s all about the politics.

Twitter was welcome when it was leftist. Now that it’s more libertarian, it’s unwelcome.

Do most San Franciscans want fewer tax revenues? According to Chiu they do.
1019   stereotomy   2024 Aug 26, 9:33am  

Commercial real estate prices crash -> globohomo oligarchs buy it up for pennies on the dollar. This is the global version of white flight from the smallholders in the major US cities in the 1960s/70s.
1020   Ceffer   2024 Aug 26, 10:42am  

Bankrupt and harvest. Want cheap real estate or business property?

Cities are extremely sensitive to finely honed services and chronically inundated with the Hun unemployed and homeless.

DEW redevelopment in the wider suburbs, or destructive fools elected into positions in the cities. The infrastructure is still there for the new owners who buy cheap, and they just have to vanquish their installed incompetents. It's piracy by another name, circling like wolves to board the ship and take it over.
1021   Patrick   2024 Sep 1, 9:34pm  

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/you-have-free-will-god-made-it-so


How Does This Explain the Decline of San Francisco?

The upside of the story of San Francisco is that everyone finally agrees that the city has imploded. Much of the blame can be placed on the concept that there is no free will.




Map of Homeless Encampments in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco




Current View On Larkin in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco

For the past decade, all government policy in San Francisco has centered around the concept of social justice, which preaches that all human outcomes are the function of race and the environment. As a result, the policies are directed at compensating for the effects of race and environment while placing no responsibility on individuals for their behavior or outcomes. This, of course, leads to an environment where no personal accountability is expected, and chaos ensues. In examining these tangible consequences in San Francisco, we can clearly demonstrate that Sapolsky is wrong.

Crime Increase Dramatically When Punishments are Removed

The policy decision to not prosecute shoplifting of goods valued at less than $950 in San Francisco, and more broadly in California, stems from the passage of Proposition 47 in 2014. Proposition 47, formally known as the "Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act." The Act reclassified certain offenses from felonies to misdemeanors. This reclassification included shoplifting, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed $950. Even though most stores in San Francisco stopped reporting shoplifting to the police, the official rate for shoplifting increased by 40% between 2012 and 2022. In reality, the rates have exploded to a degree that over half of all retail stores in San Francisco have had to close as they cannot operate profitability in an environment where the product walks out the door every day.




Group of Women Running out of CVS without Paying (Corner of Van Ness Avenue and Jackson Street)

The core tenant of the Act was that shoplifting was a crime of necessity and people should not be punished for it. After the passage of the Act, criminal gangs moved in to recruit people to steal large volumes of products to resell them on the Internet. Clearly, the Act created a high incentive to commit crimes as there were no repercussions. People of free will reacted and went on a crime spree because they could.

Homelessness Explodes as Living on the Streets Is Supported

San Francisco has always had a marginal homeless problem. However, it had not previously been catastrophic. Legal frameworks in San Francisco, influenced by the Martin v. Boise decision by the 9th Circuit Court, stipulated that cities cannot prosecute homeless individuals for sleeping on the streets if there is insufficient shelter available. Additionally, homeless individuals cannot be prevented from sitting, lying, or sleeping on public property, and property owned by homeless individuals strewn along the streets cannot be touched. Essentially, in this framework, the responsibility for securing housing was shifted from the individual to the state. And if that housing was not provided, a homeless person could stake a claim to public property in the center of a city that once had attracted tourists from all over the world. By removing personal responsibility, homelessness skyrocketed. If there are no repercussions for sleeping in the streets and using drugs, there will be more people doing it.

Drug Use Skyrockets as Free Crack Pipes Are Handed Out

San Francisco's approach to drug use emphasizes harm reduction over prevention and treatment. Specifically, the harm reduction programs have included handing out needles and crack pipes and encouraging the use of drugs in a group setting. Additionally, there have been efforts to decriminalize and destigmatize drug use. It is not shocking that this has not worked.




The Role of Free Will in Shaping Policies

The assumption that individuals lack free will can influence policy in ways that catastrophically perpetuate the problems they aim to solve. Policies that overemphasize the deterministic nature of human behavior risk neglecting the importance of personal responsibility and the potential for change. If we want normality to return to San Francisco, we must recognize the importance of free will, morality, and personal responsibility.

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