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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/special-people-saturday-august-12

Yesterday ABC 7 Washington ran an unfortunately all too common story headlined, “Shoplifting threatens closure of SE DC grocery store, creating potential food desert.”

Shoplifting threatens to close the store. Remember that line.

I could’ve used any of the many stories from San Francisco, where retailers are fleeing faster than Joe Biden sprinting out of a French Laundry dinner with some Ukrainian oligarchs when a reporter shows up. Walgreens, for one example, has closed half a dozen stores in San Fran, leaving only one highly-abused retail location.

But this DC story gave me everything I needed to expose the media’s latest shell game.

ABC reported on the Giant Food grocery store on Alabama Avenue, which is experiencing 20% inventory shrinkage due to shoplifting, and says it has lost over $500,000 in product this year. If that weren’t enough, Giant Food was recently forced to hire its own security, for some reason, at an annual cost of $300,000. So its DC location is costing over a million dollars more than other locations every year.

It’s pretty hard to raise prices enough to overcome those kinds of additional costs.

Local officials expressed fake concern. ...

ABC, which ultimately was too cowardly to actually name the real problem, still gets partial credit for including some pretty strong hints in its story. For example, the affiliate reported that it asked the District Attorney about shoplifting prosecutions:

7News also asked Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano what is he doing to hold shoplifters accountable for stealing merchandise and what is he doing to address this crime trend. More than a month later, Descano still hasn’t answered 7News’ questions.

The District Attorney’s non-answer was the answer: Descano is doing nothing about shoplifting prosecution, that’s what. In other words, he’s not prosecuting them, at all. ...

But shoplifting isn’t the root problem. Shoplifting is only a symptom of the problem.

The obvious root problem, hinted at but not named by ABC’s DC affiliate, is that the cops aren’t arresting shoplifters. And why should they, when one man, woke District Attorney Descano, won’t prosecute the ne’er-do-wells. Here’s what the headline should have said:

Non-Enforcement of Shoplifting threatens closure of SE DC grocery store, creating potential food desert...

This odious trend began with the “defund police” movement. According to woke theory, black folks are disproportionately arrested for so-called “property crimes,” like shoplifting, and that isn’t fair. So a raft of woke criminal justice reforms were trotted out, like reducing police budgets and eliminating bail. That destructive experiment has now devolved into phase two, where in leftist-controlled areas they simply don’t arrest the criminals anymore. Easy peasy.

For social justice.

But, “food deserts” hurt the whole inner-city neighborhood, which is mostly black folks. So the woke criminal justice policies are now hurting the people they was supposed to help, just like they always do. And that harm to inner city residents is becoming so undeniable, the media has to shift back to blaming the criminals instead of the the woke officials preventing prosecution of these types of crimes.

This might move them closer towards the real problem, but don’t get your hopes up. Recognizing “shoplifters” doesn’t mean they have any plans to fix the system they broke. There won’t be more arrests. The retailers are on their own, forced to hire private security. And you’d better believe the District Attorney will vigorously prosecute Giant Food if a shoplifter ever gets hurt when security tries to stop them.

If we had a free media in this country, they’d be running stories about the real reasons that marxist DA’s are allowing crime to run rampant in Blue cities. Who benefits? The answer is: billionaires benefit, because they can buy up expensive downtown real estate on the cheap as property values plummet, and big delivery-based corporations like Amazon benefit, because they fill in the gaps when smaller businesses are forced to close up shop.

In other words, it’s the literal, textbook definition of fascism.

GNL says

Patrick says

Shoplifter uses blowtorch to melt the door on of locked merchandise boxes in a Walgreens:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1671893690888122377

libsoftiktok
Welcome to New York

Looters should always be shot on sight, as is traditional.

Including white collar looters.

I think they should be shot first.

I like the story of the female doctor in Portland who said I voted for the liberals and the government and to defund, and what happened, we did this to ourselves.

I guess it took that brick to her head one night while walking home wake her up. I know it was a can that severely hurt her but a brick just resonates better.

https://notthebee.com/article/you-love-to-see-it-the-residents-of-scottsdale-chased-down-a-shoplifter-and-taught-him-a-lesson-in-instant-justice

All these big cities are running out of control because their leaders say stopping crime is racist or something, and that businesses can afford to lose stuff because that shoplifter really needed some new kicks.

California is so dedicated to that stupidity that they are trying to pass SB 553, a law that supposedly bans employers from requiring employees to stop shoplifters, but in actuality could be interpreted to fine a business $18,000 every time they try to stop a criminal!

https://notthebee.com/article/overwhelmed-austin-police-tell-citizens-to-stop-calling-911-if-theyre-getting-robbed

Overwhelmed Austin police tell citizens to stop calling 911 if they're getting robbed

First off, as a Texan I feel it necessary to say that there's Texas and then there's Austin. If they weren't the seat of our government, we'd expel the city from the state.

Secondly, the Democrats have run Austin for years, and now the city is paying for it. ...

Patrick says

First off, as a Texan I feel it necessary to say that there's Texas and then there's Austin. If they weren't the seat of our government, we'd expel the city from the state.

Secondly, the Democrats have run Austin for years, and now the city is paying for it. ...

Having lived in TX for 20 years, this is the truth - Austin is the Un-Texas. Another factoid, the city manager for 20 years was from . . . you guessed it, San Francisco! Austin has been completely californicated for over a decade now.

https://twitter.com/lalovestrump/status/1695995031675678803

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/welcome-to-the-jungle-monday-september

Game over, Portlanders! Late last week, the Oregonian ran a story headlined, “Nike to permanently close NE Portland factory store, business district says.” Nike is shutting down its 40-year-old flagship store and scampering out of downtown Portland on its fastest sneakers.

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Nike cited crime and safety concerns. The Oregonian described the now-closed Nike Community Store as “a staple in its Portland neighborhood, once the core of the city’s black population, since it opened in June 1984.” The woke store not only hired local workers from the neighborhood, but it also invested all the store’s profits into Portland’s black community.

In other words, Nike wasn’t even running the store to make money. It was just a virtue-signaling operation. And it still couldn’t make it.

The article mentioned that increasingly-desperate Nike recently offered to partially fund Portland’s police department in exchange for getting an off-duty police officer to help watch the store. But Portland is in the business of defunding police departments, not funding them. Portland rejected Nike’s offer like it was a box of unwanted last-season sneaker models.

According to an Oregon Live analysis of IRS data, Multnomah County, where Portland is located, last year hemorrhaged 14,257 taxpayers, creating a historic loss of $1 billion in tax revenues. Fox 12 News ranked Portland as one of America’s “fastest shrinking cities.”

For the life of me, I can’t understand why.




https://twitter.com/PDXFato/status/1699073561678454996

Portland’s controlled demolition is going great! The good news is, it will be over soon.

So, NYC is at the beginning of an unprecedented crime wave. Murders, rapes, robberies, you name it. All categories of crime are skyrocketing.

The mayor's solution...drop the amount of police overtime. Who cares the city is already down thousands of officers? Those funds are going to go to the illegals.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-purge-starts-outrage-erupts-after-eric-adams-cuts-nypd-overtime-to-pay-for-migrants/ar-AA1gz7vL?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=fdcce79540644d378a12fb29c42cfb0b&ei=6

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/chicken-legs-monday-september-18

So … Chicago thinks it’s easier and cheaper to build government-run grocery stores instead of prosecuting shoplifting. Who wants to bet they’ll stop the shoplifting down hard in the government store?

If this thing gets off the ground, it would be the first government-owned grocery store in any major U.S. city. One suspects this fascist concept is the leading edge of the gruesome “15-minute city” plan, or “smart city” plan, or whatever they’re calling it now.

There’s a word for government-owning businesses like grocery stores, it’s called … um … I couldn’t remember what it was called, not exactly. So I asked Bard A.I.:

https://notthebee.com/article/just-another-day-in-seattle-here-folks

Sick, dude. Just sick.

Like, you're rolling six deep into this place and you're going to put one of your guys on woman-beating duty? That's sad, bro. And how you gonna split all that cash and vape stuff between six of you? What, does everyone get $40 and a few cartridges? Cuz that seems hardly worth it.

But I guess in Seattle anything goes.

So dumb, and I hope next time the clerk has a gun.

stereotomy says

Having lived in TX for 20 years, this is the truth - Austin is the Un-Texas. Another factoid, the city manager for 20 years was from . . . you guessed it, San Francisco! Austin has been completely californicated for over a decade now.

I thought Austin was a shit hole the first time I went there. That was about 18 years ago. I can't imagine it now. Reminds me a lot of Nashville. Both are shit holes with a bunch of hipster types. It's 5-6 bar owners that own everything in the "entertainment" district and its's pure shit. Nothing enjoyable. I'd rather go to NOLA and I can't stand that place either.

Country music is pure trash, so that doesn't help either Nashville or Austin. SXSW is trash. I'd rather see most if not all the bands somewhere else. Not Texan or Tennessee. It's the McDonalds of music venues. They suck.

https://www.startribune.com/theft-crime-spur-target-close-nine-stores-four-states-minneapols-san-francisco-portland-seattle-nyc/600307683/

Target to close nine stores across four states because of theft and crime

The Minneapolis-based company will close locations in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Seattle, Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area effective Oct. 21.

The very worst cities to run any business in now.

https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1706840403717017608/mediaViewer?mode=profile

Country Music is trash because Memphis and Nashville are where pop star wannabes who failed in LA go to for a second chance at pop with a twangy voice or Tractor Rap.

AmericanKulak says

Country Music is trash because Memphis and Nashville are where pop star wannabes who failed in LA go to for a second chance at pop with a twangy voice or Tractor Rap.

Pop stars are just whores for producing the current propaganda.

Name any pop star that came.lut against the vaccine or mandates? That opposed any US war? That went against the establishment on any issue?

There are no real pop stars at all. What you see are just propagandists.

https://notthebee.com/article/target-announces-its-closing-nine-stores-in-major-cities-because-those-cities-dont-stop-crime

https://notthebee.com/article/philadelphia-was-absolutely-waylaid-overnight-by-a-bunch-of-gangs-of-looting-youths

These clips of MASS LOOTING in Philly overnight are WILD

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/philadelphia-shoe-stores-liquor-stores-electronics-stores-looted-by-starving-people-desperately-looking-for-bread

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1707932343502004297

https://notthebee.com/article/retail-theft-surged-by-more-than-20-last-year-reaching-unprecedented-levels-according-to-business-owners

Retail theft surged by more than 20% last year, reaching “unprecedented” levels, according to survey of business owners...

This will also explain in part why prices are going up. Retailers have to recoup their losses, whatever they may be — and many of their losses are simply walking out the front door on a daily basis.

And the parameters of the problem are getting worse, too: Retailers on the survey said that shoplifters are "somewhat more or much more aggressive and violent compared with one year ago." They're getting bolder and they're getting meaner too. It's unsurprising.

Unsurprisingly, Democrat-run cities have been hit the hardest by organized retail crime: Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Houston, and New York City all rank at the top. Criminals will go where the crime is easiest.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/02/philadelphia-journalist-josh-kruger-shot-killed-home-monday/71033712007/

see above... a Philadelphia activist for the homeless was shot and killed at his home ...

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Sounds like she's kind of into the guy who offed her wimp leftist boyfriend.

Same reason that women send love letters to mass murderers in prison.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12592647/ryan-carson-murder-tribute.html

Patrick says

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12592647/ryan-carson-murder-tribute.html

yeah and the irony is that it happened on Malcolm X Blvd in Brooklyn

these Woke and white liberals see the world as they wish to see it , not as it actually is

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Video of the stabbing and background (both are either ACAB/BLM or legal drug injection site activists)
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1709316120660812049?s=20

Patrick says

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12592647/ryan-carson-murder-tribute.html

Andy Ngo has the background info on the Girlfriend, big league ACAB/BLM cunt:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1709316120660812049.html

I apologize if this has been mentioned or asked, but why does the other woman, an African American, approach after the victim is on the ground and his girlfriend Morales is staring at him and saying "I'm so sorry".

So she is apologizing for the suspect because she knows him ?

This came from The Sun and it seems to be enough quality for someone to recognize this suspect.
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