What happens when a bunch of hippies get together and decide that prosecuting crimes is mean and people should be able to just take what they want when they want instead?
In lieu of the city putting criminals in jail, stores put ice cream behind bars in their place.
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Such is the sorry state of San Francisco, where stores have resorted to keeping coffee, mustard, syrup, lotion, and other basic grocery items under lock and key. One Walgreens in San Francisco, which is identified by the chain as the biggest target for thefts among all its U.S. stores, even used chains and padlocks on freezer doors to protect its ice cream, Popsicles, and frozen pizzas.
Other stores use plexiglass boxes or cable locks, but thieves simply move on to the next unprotected item. When CNN’s Kyung Lah brought a camera crew to the aforementioned Walgreens, they witnessed three thefts in just 30 minutes. If you don’t want to have to pay for anything, it seems you simply don’t have to. What is San Francisco going to do, arrest you?
In San Francisco, we went to the Walgreens that is the #1 spot for theft in all the 9000 US stores, per Walgreens. This is where chains once shut the freezer section. And we saw 3 thefts right in front of us. But across SF, coffee, mustard, nail polish-- are all locked up: pic.twitter.com/IfYBVgpeI2
— Kyung Lah (@KyungLahCNN) July 25, 2023
As a result, lives for people who actually abide by the rules of society become more difficult. Grocery runs become longer as you have to stop and find an employee to unlock a case for an increasingly larger number of items. That’s the least bad outcome, as other shoppers are forced to travel further and further after companies such as Walgreens shutter stores that are regular targets of theft. Of course, that sends thieves to find new stores to steal from, and the cycle of locks and closures continues indefinitely.
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There is a way to fix this, of course, but that requires arresting, prosecuting, and jailing thieves. That’s a big no-no in criminal justice reform-conscious San Francisco, though, so residents have to live with their stores adding more locks than their jails. Then everyone acts surprised when those same criminals graduate to robbing homes or breaking into cars.
After all, why lock up criminals when you can lock up your ice cream instead?