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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   158,256 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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614   Patrick   2023 Jun 20, 6:45pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/read-this-unbelievable-account-of-how-thieves-in-san-francisco-are-breaking-into-every-car-they-can-get-their-hands-on



This is the unspoken secret about government/law enforcement.

Government is a gang, a gang which steals from you. But they gain legitimacy by deterring other thieves.

When the official government fails, other gangs step in to take its place. Gangs with more integrity than our current government.
615   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Jun 20, 7:10pm  

Two biggest hotels going into foreclosure, and more to follow. Seems people don't even want to visit, let alone live in San Franshitsco.
616   RWSGFY   2023 Jun 20, 8:13pm  

They are talking now of converting downtiwn office buildings to apartments.For whom - people who refused to come to downtown offices for work?
617   AD   2023 Jun 20, 11:53pm  

Patrick says

When the official government fails, other gangs step in to take its place. Gangs with more integrity than our current government.


Anarcho Tyranny 101
618   AD   2023 Jun 20, 11:54pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12216335/San-Fran-supermarket-installs-metal-exit-gates-stop-shoplifters-raiding-groceries.html

California supermarket installs metal exit gates to stop frequent shoplifters from raiding groceries amid spiraling opioid-fueled crime that has caused stores and people to flee the region

A Safeway in Vallejo, California, recently installed metal emergency exit gates in front of one of the entrances to deter shoplifters

Some Safeway locations installed exit bars months ago, including large metal barriers across closed checkout lanes

Several large businesses, including Gap and AT&T, have pulled out of the downtown as crime spikes in the Bay Area
619   Patrick   2023 Jun 22, 4:50pm  

https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/san-francisco-walgreens-locked-up-shelves-ripped-off-by-thieves/


Stores from Safeway to Home Depot have been increasingly locking items behind screens to deter shoplifting in the Bay Area and across the country. Customers and staff in San Francisco stores recently described the security measures as irritating, with it taking several minutes to access basic items like toothbrushes or high-value items such as liquor and power tools.

Walgreens manager Chanh Luu said the group entered the Bernal Heights store at around 8 p.m. and began smashing the shelves in two of the store's aisles, where laundry soap and dental products are locked away behind plastic shields due to rampant shoplifting in the city. The shields were torn away so the thieves could get their hands on the items...


Lol, it's going to take more than those plastic screens.

Looters should always be shot on sight, as is traditional.
620   tomtomtom   2023 Jun 22, 8:49pm  

This is all legal in CA. Please stop complaining. That's what people voted for.
621   richwicks   2023 Jun 22, 9:23pm  

tomtomtom says

This is all legal in CA. Please stop complaining. That's what people voted for.


Sure, just like we voted for Biden..
622   AD   2023 Jun 22, 11:43pm  

Patrick says

Walgreens manager Chanh Luu said the group entered the Bernal Heights store at around 8 p.m. and began smashing the shelves in two of the store's aisles, where laundry soap and dental products are locked away behind plastic shields due to rampant shoplifting in the city. The shields were torn away so the thieves could get their hands on the items...


That's right Patrick, this is just a well-deserved lesson for Walgreens in thug perseverance and creativity.

All they do is now bring a hammer to break through the plastic shield.

Granted it takes a little longer to loot, but they are out of there at least 10 minutes before the police arrive.

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623   richwicks   2023 Jun 23, 12:59am  

ad says

Granted it takes a little longer to loot, but they are out of there at least 10 minutes before the police arrive.


Haha - police don't show up.

What companies need to do is start appealing to the public. "We'd like to have a store here, but the current DA, Mayor, and Police won't enforce the law, so we can't afford to be in business here..."

They need to unite.

The public doesn't want this shit, the companies don't want this shit.
624   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2023 Jun 23, 4:26am  

richwicks says

The public doesn't want this shit,

And yet, somehow, they keep voting for the shit givers.
625   richwicks   2023 Jun 23, 6:22am  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

richwicks says


The public doesn't want this shit,

And yet, somehow, they keep voting for the shit givers.


Jesus, this stupid trust in the ballot box. It's infuriating.
626   stereotomy   2023 Jun 23, 9:46am  

It used to be just dead people voting. Now it's mass-printed anonymous "made up" ballots. Inflation eveywhere!
627   AD   2023 Jun 23, 10:39am  

richwicks says

The public doesn't want this shit, the companies don't want this shit.


Ha ha, the vast majority are too afraid to do anything and/or vote for the Democrats who promote this thug environment.

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628   Patrick   2023 Jun 24, 5:28pm  

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/san-francisco-a-city-undergoing-its


Everyone knows that San Francisco is the nation's largest public toilet - requiring the city to employ six-figure 'poop patrol' cleanup team, however a new report from the city Controller's Office really puts things in poo-spective.

For starters, feces were found far more often in commercial sectors, covering "approximately 50% of street segments in Key Commercial Areas and 30% in the Citywide survey," second only to broken glass as can be seen in the 'illegal dumping' section. ...

This is all even more heartbreaking, because San Francisco is one of the most naturally beautiful places on Earth. A city on the edge of the Pacific with the bay around it, and the endless waves of fog rolling above. ...

San Francisco has long been a left-leaning city, but this alone wasn't enough to create a policy environment that would lead to the city's downfall. The tipping point towards full-blown insanity in San Francisco's policy environment can be traced back to Proposition 47, a 2014 ballot measure that reduced penalties for certain nonviolent crimes, including shoplifting.

Proposition 47 changed the law so that stealing items worth less than $950 is now considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony. This means that offenders may receive lower fines, shorter jail sentences, or no jail time at all. Unfortunately, this leniency has led to increased shoplifting, as criminals believe they won't face serious consequences for their actions. In San Francisco, police often don't respond to reports of store robberies and instead, request that the store report the crime online. However, these reports are frequently not followed up on. ...

Proposition 47 essentially legalized small-scale retail crime, paving the way for more serious offenses. The action then shifted to the District Attorney's office for further implementation. ...

Proposition 47 was a clever strategy to attract criminals conducting retail and property crimes to the city and keep those already in the city out of jail. However, more serious criminals were still being locked up pending trial or sentenced to prison terms for serious crimes they had committed. This is where George Soros stepped in with the Open Societies Foundation to change the San Francisco District Attorney.

Soros backed Chesa Boudin, who was elected in 2019. Boudin has an interesting background, as both of his parents were actual terrorists in the Weather Underground Movement. ...

An apt comparison exists between this campaign and vaccination campaigns, in that coordinated propaganda can influence people to support insane measures. ...

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what would be the results of these policy decisions.

Here is one of the results - defaults of commercial real estate and hotels closing and leaving the city...

In other recent developments, California recently passed another law that criminalizes trying to prevent robbery or shoplifting as a “public safety” measure. Let’s guess what effect this will have on retailers who are dumb enough to still maintain presence in this bastion of wokeness.

National retailers such as Nordstrom, Crate & Barrel and H&M have closed San Francisco stores. Tech companies are putting their offices up for sublease; and the city’s commercial real estate, previously among the most valuable in the world, has started selling at huge discounts.
629   AD   2023 Jun 24, 8:47pm  

Patrick says

California recently passed another law that criminalizes trying to prevent robbery or shoplifting as a “public safety”


The CEO of big bricks and mortar stores like Safeway, Bestbuy, etc. should lobby to get San Fran police to put a small police station at the front of each store. And they should pay to build the station and offer free amenities like free sandwiches, coffee, etc.

The costs with this are minuscule to the savings they would incur as far as loss prevention.

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630   Booger   2023 Jun 25, 4:58am  

Any of you near SF still paying for your stuff at the stores?
631   tomtomtom   2023 Jun 25, 7:08am  

There will be no retail stores in Cali soon. You would have to buy everything online. The shoplifters will have to come to your homes. Hide your kids. Hide your wife.
632   RWSGFY   2023 Jun 25, 10:54pm  

tomtomtom says

There will be no retail stores in Cali soon. You would have to buy everything online. The shoplifters will have to come to your homes. Hide your kids. Hide your wife.


A shoplifter was recently shot at dowtown SF Walgreens by a security guard. The guard will not be charged.
633   AD   2023 Jun 25, 11:19pm  

tomtomtom says

There will be no retail stores in Cali soon. You would have to buy everything online. The shoplifters will have to come to your homes. Hide your kids. Hide your wife.


Exactly as we are likely talking organized thugs so its roving gangs will just move to where all the stuff to be stolen is located.

Neighborhoods are going to have to form armed security units for protection.
635   HeadSet   2023 Jun 26, 8:13pm  

At some point that has got to give. Too much of that and we will start seeing thieves hanging from lampposts as a warning.
636   AD   2023 Jun 26, 10:04pm  

Patrick says

San Francisco


Likely an organized crime effort

smash and grab like anything that can easily be sold as used electronics, etc. as well as take any loose currency like dollar bills, coins, etc.

........
638   Patrick   2023 Jul 2, 5:03pm  

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-franciscos-plan-for-housing-young-adults-at-soma-site-facing-backlash/


San Francisco’s plan for housing young adults ADDICTS at SoMa site facing backlash

SoMa community organizer Nikki Ahmadi wrote a petition that’s racked up more than 800 signatures from residents who strongly oppose the city’s plan for 1174 Folsom Street.

The petition lists its three main concerns as:

Utilizing $22 million in taxpayer money to house only 42 people in a luxury building.
Needles and pipes will be distributed onsite to residents who are drug users as part of the city’s “harm reduction” policy.
Exposes vulnerable housing project residents to drugs dealers and addicts who already frequent the neighborhood.


Prison is the right answer to homelessness because most homelessness is caused by hard drug addiction:

https://patrick.net/post/1378398/2023-01-27-the-secret-to-ending-homelessness
639   stereotomy   2023 Jul 2, 5:22pm  

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld/status/1673411913718587393

San Francisco



Heavy-ass window tinting. 'Nuff said.

Once in TX I had what I presumed was a meth head try to break into my vehicle to steal my gear. He tried to break the window, but the window tint held the glass together. No matter what, he couldn't get a clean break. When I returned to the car later, I noticed the window, but also several divots in the sheet metal of the car. I guess the thug got so frustrated he took it out on the car body. I almost lol'd, but it cost $5K to repair the damage (luckily I had comprehensive insurance).
640   stereotomy   2023 Jul 2, 5:29pm  

Patrick says


https://twitter.com/ClownWorld/status/1673411913718587393

San Francisco



Heavy-ass window tinting. 'Nuff said.

Once in TX I had what I presumed was a meth head try to break into my vehicle to steal my gear. He tried to break the window, but the window tint held the glass together. No matter what, he couldn't get a clean break. When I returned to the car later, I noticed the window, but also several divots in the sheet metal of the car. I guess the thug got so frustrated he took it out on the car body. I almost lol'd, but it cost $5K to repair the damage (luckily I had comprehensive insurance).

EDIT: You can even get window tinting that is just a thermal barrier but otherwise doesn't look like tint - 3M Crystalline tint

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00016683/

I have it and it works great. In summer I have to cycle the AC because the cabin gets too cold. Yeah it's $$ but how much does a window replacement or gear replacement cost?
641   Patrick   2023 Jul 6, 1:43pm  

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/04/baseball-bat-wielding-gangs-of-children-robbing-mothers/


Mothers attacked by baseball-bat wielding children as San Francisco crime wave intensifies

City officials blame truancy and zero interest from police for ‘kids doing these really awful things’

(paywall)
642   Eric Holder   2023 Jul 6, 3:12pm  

stereotomy says

Heavy-ass window tinting. 'Nuff said.

Once in TX I had what I presumed was a meth head try to break into my vehicle to steal my gear.


Sedan with no way to access the trunk from the inside is the best vehicle to take to places like that (if you must go).
643   stereotomy   2023 Jul 6, 3:55pm  

Eric Holder says

stereotomy says

Heavy-ass window tinting. 'Nuff said.

Once in TX I had what I presumed was a meth head try to break into my vehicle to steal my gear.

Sedan with no way to access the trunk from the inside is the best vehicle to take to places like that (if you must go).

Yes, but that doesn't work when you're hauling 300+ pounds of keyboard gear. Try fitting that in a trunk.
644   Patrick   2023 Jul 7, 3:23pm  

https://sfstandard.com/business/two-big-tech-conferences-pulled-from-san-franciscos-moscone-center-in-2024/


2 Big Tech Conferences Pull Out of San Francisco’s Moscone Center in 2024
Written by Kevin Truong
Published Jul. 06, 2023

Two major tech conferences have decided to pull out of San Francisco’s Moscone Center in 2024, another speed bump in the city’s struggle to restore Downtown business activity to pre-pandemic levels.

The Red Hat Summit 2024, an annual four-day meeting meant to convene thousands of enterprise software professionals, decided to decamp from San Francisco to Denver. Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM, is billing the event as the first time the summit has been held in the central United States. ...

In another bit of bad news, Meta has decided to cancel its Business Group Summit scheduled for March 2024, according to the San Francisco Travel Association. The news about conference pullouts, originally reported by the San Francisco Business Times, is another blow to what is shaping up to be a difficult year when it comes to Moscone Center bookings.
645   Patrick   2023 Jul 18, 9:35am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12309415/San-Francisco-Walgreens-resorts-CHAINING-refrigerator-section-overnight-stop-shoplifters-swiping-pizza-ice-cream-20-times-day.html

San Francisco Walgreens NOW resorts to CHAINING freezers to stop shoplifters in crime-riddled city swiping pizza and ice cream 20 times a day - as another branch completely boards up its windows
647   HeadSet   2023 Jul 18, 5:37pm  

Patrick says

San Francisco Walgreens NOW resorts to CHAINING freezers to stop shoplifters

Thieves could make short work of those chains using the same battery powered tool they use to steal catalytic converters.
648   1337irr   2023 Jul 18, 5:48pm  

HeadSet says

Patrick says


San Francisco Walgreens NOW resorts to CHAINING freezers to stop shoplifters

Thieves could make short work of those chains using the same battery powered tool they use to steal catalytic converters.

East Bay...doesn't count...not news.
649   HeadSet   2023 Jul 18, 6:14pm  

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?
650   1337irr   2023 Jul 18, 7:03pm  

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.
651   Patrick   2023 Jul 24, 4:15am  

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/video-car-plummets-over-sanchez-street-stairs-in-san-francisco/


Video: Car plummets over Sanchez Street steps in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- It's the kind of crash you might see in a Hollywood movie.

A car barreled through a guardrail on a dead-end street in San Francisco's Dolores Heights, flew down an embankment, knocked down a tree and landed upside down. It happened at 19th and Sanchez Streets around 7:20 p.m. on Saturday.

A neighbor described the scene to KPIX.

"There was a woman pulling out a guy, all bloody, and the guy had a full face mask, all black, dressed in black. She was in black, red hair, yelling at them 'we have 3 minutes till the cops come, we have 3 minutes, hurry up!'" said Michael Perez who lives nearby. "There was another guy and there was another guy still stuck in the car and they were, like, 'just leave him, leave him!"

San Francisco police said everyone inside the car fled the scene and officers have, so far, not located them. ...

"We saw what was going on. There was bottles of alcohol pouring out of their car and they were all bloodied and you could tell they were up to no good," Perez said. "They were vandals, you could tell by the way they were dressed, spilling out of their car. They didn't want our help. She said 'don't touch me!'"

Giorgi Kvirkvia was working on a car by his garage when he heard the noise. He also rushed over to the scene and he spoke to a man who said he had just been carjacked.

"According to him, they basically kicked him out of his car -- a couple of minutes before -- somewhere down the block," he said. "He kind of fought them and, in the end, they hit him in the head, I think, with a gun. That's what he said. When they were fighting his shirt got torn and I saw that his shirt was torn."

Kvirkvia said police told him they also found a gun at the scene.

"I think it's a great example of how the lawlessness in San Francisco has real impact on the actual citizens and neighbors who live in the city. And so, I hope this is a little bit of a wakeup call to our politicians that we need to prosecute crimes, have more police officers."


This is what the left does to cities.

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