Crime problem? What crime problem?
This is all a Dark MAGA ultra-right-wing White Supremacist conspiracy theory, doncha know.
A San Francisco Walgreens was robbed three times while CNN was filming a live segment on Monday.
CNN's Kyung Lah was visiting the shop to report on the rampant crime when cameras caught a man walking out of the store with several items.
"Did that guy pay?" Lah asked the cashier, who answered that he had not. Lah also noted that she witness two other robberies despite spending just 30 minutes at the store.
"Walgreens says this Richmond neighborhood store, with aisles of products like mustard locked behind plexiglass, has the highest theft rate of all their nearly 9,000 U.S. stores, hit more than a dozen times a day when thieves turned to cleaning out ice cream and frozen burritos, workers grew so frustrated, they resorted to the chains," Lah said, referring to the long lengths of chain and padlocks set up in the frozen food section. "They were ordered down by corporate because of the negative messaging."
Lah reported that, at other stores, frozen food, fake eyelashes, lotion, coffee and other items are also behind locked up.
Below, a report from last week about this Waldgreen's being forced to chain and padlock all of their refrigerated cabinets due to constant, rampant thieving:
When the Democrat Party took its radical Left turn the city moved with it--led it, in fact--and the results have been disastrous.
Retailers have fled, the real estate market has collapsed to the point that buildings are being turned over to banks by major corporations, others are selling at 20 cents on the dollar, and residents are actually picking up and moving out of one of the most blessed cities in America.
You literally cannot buy ice cream anymore without having somebody unlock the freezer.
Oddly, unlike other cities, the crimes are rarely violent, relatively speaking. They are mostly quality-of-life crimes. The sorts of things that make your day-to-day existence miserable. The city is turning into a dystopia before our eyes.
Many people will stick it out, and hardly anybody will vote them out, no matter how bad it gets. Because of inertia, or insufficient resources to pack up and leave.
The wealthy will find a way around the inconveniences, as they do in the third world. Living in the equivalent of compounds with private security, having everything delivered, and being chauffeured from place to place. They will tut-tut about the city's decline, and fund the next Leftist candidate who will make it decline even more.
That is the plan. And I mean that literally: That. Is. The Plan.
They are civilization-destroyers. They want us to return to the state of nature.
A San Francisco business owner -- one of the few remaining ones -- was assaulted right outside his business. He says "I'm f***ing fed up with this city."
Apparently he was urinating right on the sidewalk in front of the store.
Here's the clip he posted on Instagram. [Video at the link above.] You can see a pretty large goose-egg forming on his forehead and he seems to have the start of a black eye as well. "I can't believe I live in a city where people piss in the street and then just come punch you in the fing face and get away with it," he said. He added, "I'm fing fed up with this goddamn city...This is f*ing bullst. It shouldn't be this way at all."
Fortunately, the police arrested the man and are holding him in jail without bail.
I'm just f***ing with you, despite the business owner videotaping him and repeatedly calling the cops, they refused to come.
Harter followed the guy down the street while calling the police but they told him not to pursue the suspect so he stopped. He obviously doesn't expect anyone will be arrested. And unfortunately, he's also softening his tone quite a bit.
If police find the man who attacked him, Harter said he wants him to do community service cleaning up the street outside, rather than going to jail.
This is pretty standard prog-speak in San Francisco. No one is ever supposed to go to jail, especially not homeless people. I'm pretty sure Harter doesn't actually believe this but if you have a business in San Francisco, you can't afford to become the next target of activists who will attempt to ruin your livelihood if you say the wrong thing.
Previously San Francisco had a system in place called "arresting and punishing thieves" but Democrats suddenly discovered in 2020 that we've been Doing It Wrong for 300,000 years of human existence. You know, like they suddenly discovered in 2020 that we've also been Doing It Wrong on the whole "two sexes" fallacy.