Posted on 04/24/2016 6:44:57 PM PDT by reaganaut1
SAN FRANCISCO — From her apartment at the foot of the celebrated zigzags of Lombard Street, Judith Calson has twice peered out her window as thieves smashed their way into cars and snatched whatever they could. She has seen foreign tourists cry after cash and passports were stolen. She shudders when she recounts the story of the Thai tourist who was shot because he resisted thieves taking his camera.
And that is her tally from the last year alone.
“I never thought of this area as a high-crime neighborhood,” Ms. Calson, a retired photographer, said of this leafy part of the city, where tourists flock to view the steeply sloped, crooked street adorned with flower beds.
San Francisco, America’s boom town, is flooded with the cash of well-paid technology workers and record numbers of tourists. At the same time, the city has seen a sharp jump in property crime, up more than 60 percent since 2010, though the actual increase may be higher because many of the crimes go unreported.
Recent data from the F.B.I. show that San Francisco has the highest per-capita property crime rate of the nation’s top 50 cities. About half the cases here are thefts from vehicles, smash-and-grabs that scatter glittering broken glass onto the sidewalks.
The city, known for a political tradition of empathy for the downtrodden, is now divided over whether to respond with more muscular law enforcement or stick to its forgiving attitudes.
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On the other side is David Campos, a supervisor who opposes the increase in police officers and describes Mr. Wiener’s views as “a very knee-jerk kind of punitive approach that is ineffective and inconsistent with the values of San Francisco.”
Mr. Campos and many others evoke the charitable spirit of the city’s namesake, St. Francis.
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Some gentle people in San Francisco do not have flush toilets, while those who have won life’s lottery do.
The only fair solution is to enact legislation prohibiting the ownership and use of toilets.
Only when there are no toilets will the brutalizing inequity of of the plumbed/unplumbed finally put people in motion
PC SF hipster response to smash and grab #1:
Like, dude?!?!? ...
PC SF hipster response to smash and grab #2:
Like, dude?!?!? ...
(etc.)
Most of the break-ins are a search for drug money. My bay area home was broken into for CDs (sold for cash) and cash in our change jar. They left behind expensive guitars, not wishing I guess to touch the “nice things.”
They should leave their cars unlocked so thieves don’t have to smash the windows.
HELP!
I have Microsoft Edge and I need an ad blocker.
I don’t even know what having Microsoft Edge means!
Some ‘Sanctuary’ of a city. Just rename SF to Pope Francis City—home of illegals, criminals and the holy gay.
A man’s gots to have his drugs. How do ya expect a man with no money to buy some H?
Consequently car smash-n-grabs are at historical levels. Ain't liberalism grand.
I use Ghostery as my ad-blocker.
“I don’t even know what having Microsoft Edge means!”
Unfortunately, it means you have the absolutely worst browser in the entire universe.
Bring in some illegal aliens and muslim refugees, that should help things. If it is such a boom town and accepting liberal paradise they should welcome them with open arms.
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I concur with you. Taget rich easy picking environments for the ferals help keep them away from the humans.
Numerous years ago (about 15-20), SF decided to “solve” their homeless crisis by giving them an allotment of money every month.
It was obvious to anyone with a lick of sense that this would cause a HUGE influx of homeless to get over to SF for the free money. Sure enough, every homeless, drug addict, and grifter within a 300 mile radius made haste to get to SF for the free money. When the city became overwhelmed, they reversed course and stopped the policy. But they stayed.
So I guess that it is that hard for them to figure it out.
That's only part of what's going to happen.
Well duh, the state just a while back passed legislation making property crimes under $1K an infraction... WT* were they expecting?
And SF isn’t the only place, smash and grabs are up everywhere...
Addendum, I believe it was prop 47 (a ballot measure) which passed and created this environment. It reduced felonies to misdemeanors and I believe they’re pretty low fine ones for the most part...
Tolerance for crime only generates more crime.
Nothing else.
If you don’t punish criminals, you get more... criminals.
It’s not rocket science.
The city, known for a political tradition of empathy for the downtrodden, is now divided over whether to respond with more muscular law enforcement or stick to its forgiving attitudes.
It wasn’t that way when I was a kid. It was well known that you didn’t mess around with the City’s Irish cops, and it little crime, especially compared with today. Known for being a very safe city.
San Francisco first began its slide into anarchy when the hippies took over Hashbury.
That seems like an eternity.
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