Shoplifter’s Paradise
Please note San Francisco Has Become a Shoplifter’s Paradise
“Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average for stores elsewhere in the country, and the chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere,” reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Earlier this year, a spokesman for CVS, which has closed at least two stores, told CNN that of its 155 locations in the Bay Area, the 12 in San Francisco account for 26% of all shoplifting incidents in the region.
Much of this lawlessness can be linked to Proposition 47, a California ballot initiative passed in 2014, under which theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor and rarely prosecuted.
Meanwhile, politically progressive local prosecutors from Los Angeles to Philadelphia and New York compete to see who can prosecute the fewest people.
Just Plain Crazy
This is just plain crazy. And it’s another reason for the big backlash I expect in the 2022 midterm elections.
School boards, crime, racist college admissions that favor blacks who cannot read, and critical race theory crammed down kids throats are all part of the extreme Left madness sweeping the country.
In February, I noted Coca Cola Confirms Training Employees ‘Try To Be Less White’
In July, I commented Critical Race Theory Should Be Banned, and a Black Parent Explains Why
“Educators use CRT as their own agenda, to indoctrinate the kids to hate each other,” said one black parent to a rousing round of applause at a school board meeting.
In May I noted College Entrance Exam SAT Score Racial Profiling: 964=1223
Welcome to new math that says an SAT score of 964 equals a score of 1223.
“We can’t sit on our hands and ignore the disparities of wealth reflected in the SAT,” claim college administrators.
To compensate for the fact that Blacks score lower on average than Asians and Whites, SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’.
And so here we are. Shoplifting is the fault of Walgreens, not the shoplifters.
This makes about as much sense as everything else sweeping the country.
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If stealing
below the amount of $950 is not a crime, then buying what has been stolen is
not a crime either. If I could centralize by an app the buying of those goods
giving the entrepreneurs/thieves a place for them to quickly and easily
exchange the fruit of their work for money, then I could corner the market. It’s
not fencing because the goods were not stolen and because of the fast
turnaround the entrepreneur/thieves could increase their volume allowing them
to steal more and more and I could take a nice slice. I make money on the
spread and everyone is happy. I could expand to different cities and states and
use my new-found wealth to pay politicians to change the laws in their states.
An IPO would follow and I could rake in billions.
Funny, I just had a conversation similar to this with my sister. She decided to bring up, since I didn’t vote for Trump (didn’t vote for Biden either) some strange conspiracy theory that in 2030, the government is going to steal our houses from us. I was amused. I had to remind her they will take your house and assets if you don’t pay your federal, state, and county masters. The flag that flies above the IRS will come get your stuff if you don’t pay all that money in to be free.
You are right, and it’s not just San Francisco. I have had my car stolen in Illinois and broken into in Missouri. The cops filled out some paperwork and that was it. When my car was actually found, I had to pay the impound and towing fees. More theft added to the intitial crime.
Why would that be a surprise? Income and wealth inequality lead to all sorts of problems – including petty crime, violent crime, homicides and so on.
This is just one example – the US is almost off the charts when it comes to charting how crime rates are impacted by inequality:
1. Why only San Francisco? Why not other places (cities or towns) in California?
2. Why only Walgreens? Why not other stores?
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/critical-race-theory-republicans-frankfurt-school
Let’s think about this critically rather than jumping on ideologically based click bait.
Wolf Richter has us covered here:
It isn’t shop lifting it is too many stores and not enough customers.