Posted on 10/06/2020 6:42:56 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Have you noticed that people don’t treat one another with the same level of respect and civility that they once did? Everywhere I look, people are treating one another badly, and this should greatly alarm all of us. Perhaps we can blame some of this on the pandemic, because the restrictions that authorities have implemented around the nation have definitely put people in a bad mood. And of course the fact that this is an election year is certainly not helping things. But I am seeing people that are supposedly on the same side treating each other with extreme contempt. Conservatives are fighting with conservatives, liberals are fighting with liberals, Christians are fighting with Christians, and over the past year I have been seeing families break up all over the place. Hearts are growing so cold, and all of the strife and discord that we are witnessing makes me wonder what things will be like when economic conditions in this nation really start falling apart.
There is so much anger and frustration in the air right now, and we are definitely seeing this being reflected in the crime numbers. For example, it is being reported that burglaries in San Francisco have risen 42 percent so far this year…
In San Francisco, burglaries are up 42% in the first 9 months of this year, compared to the same time period in 2019. In the Northern District, which includes Pacific Heights, the Marina, North Beach, and Cow Hollow, it’s up 59%. In the Mission, 79% and in the Richmond up 50%.
In some neighborhoods, the same criminals are returning over and over again, and things have gotten so bad that one local resident recently admitted that she “cannot sleep at night anymore”…
Thieves are returning to the same homes and neighborhoods within the same week, sometimes only one day apart.
“It’s a big wave of crime right now. it’s home burglaries and this is scary. I cannot sleep at night anymore,” said Iryna Gorb.
I can’t even imagine what it must be like lying in bed wondering if this will be the night when the burglars will return again.
In addition to home invasions, San Francisco is seeing an alarming number of stores being hit as well…
And it’s not just happening to homes. Video from a Pacific Heights’ Food Market a week and a half ago shows a suspect’s seen setting up a blow torch on the store’s glass.
When it doesn’t budge, he comes back and tries a throwing a planter to break in.
We are seeing similar scenes play out all over America on a nightly basis these days, and it is only going to get worse in the months ahead.
Over on the east coast, New York City has also seen a 42 percent rise in burglaries so far in 2020, and the number of shootings is up 91 percent…
Year-to-date, there has been a 91% spike in citywide shooting incidents, a 42% increase in burglaries and a 33% decrease in hate crimes.
Considering the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have already moved out of New York City, there shouldn’t be that many people left to shoot, but these are the numbers that authorities are giving us.
And sometimes people are being murdered without a gun being used at all. I have to admit that I was greatly disturbed when I recently heard what happened to one man on a Manhattan subway platform…
A man has died after he was repeatedly stabbed in the legs following a dispute on a lower Manhattan subway station in New York City on Saturday, officials revealed.
The attack unfolded just before 3pm on the northbound J/Z train platform in Chambers Street Station, near to City Hall, where the victim, in his 20s, had been ensnared in an argument with another man, said to be in his 30s.
How cold does your heart have to be to attack someone like that?
Sadly, acts of extreme violence are happening in our major cities so frequently now that they barely make a blip in the news. In the middle of the country, murders and shootings in Chicago are both up over 50 percent in 2020, and it is being reported that “dozens of children” under the age of 10 have been shot over the last nine months…
The Windy City – like others across the country – has seen an uptick in violent crimes this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic, mass layoffs and nationwide unrest. Murders and shootings are up 52% from the same time last year, according to police data, and dozens of children under 10 years old have been shot, some fatally.
This is what America has become.
We have become a place where children under the age of 10 are being shot on a regular basis.
Most of us depend on the police to protect us from this sort of violence, but they are being shot on a regular basis too. Here is just one example that was in the news today…
A shooting over the weekend left one Myrtle Beach police officer dead and another injured, according to a news release from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
The officers were responding to a domestic violence call Saturday night. Authorities say shots were exchanged between them and a suspect after a confrontation.
The thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is steadily disappearing, and it isn’t just happening in the big cities.
Some of the worst crimes of all are happening in less populated areas, and if you doubt this just check out this example.
For decades, we have been raising children in an environment in which traditional moral values have been relegated to the fringes of society, and so we should not be surprised that our society is now literally coming apart at the seams all around us.
And if you think what we have experienced so far is bad, just wait until we get a few more years down the road.
Chaos and violence in our streets has become the norm, and our society now teaches us that it is perfectly okay to hate one another.
Treating others the way that you want to be treated is such a simple concept, but it works.
Unfortunately, most of the population has rejected the simple values that once united our nation, and so our society will continue to fall apart all around us as we plunge into a deeply uncertain future.
“This may be happening in big cities but not where I live. Crime is down and people are very cordial to each other in public”
Same here. I just put a blue LED light on the porch and don’t expect any vandalism arising from it.
“The author is writing about San Francisco, New York and Chicago.”
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Yup. To be sure, people in general aren’t as kind as they use to be, but in the cities - especially blue cities - it’s off the hook psycho.
Get out of the cities, even just to many of the burbs, and people aren’t as nuts.
It’s called “divide and conquer” and the world’s ruling elite have used it for thousands of years. Remove these current “unseen” world rulers and it may stop for another 200+ years.
SO TRUE BUMP!
Ditto here in the Idaho Panhandle.
“We’re busy feeding all of those America hating fat a$$ liberal women who want to destroy our country”
Well, as long as civility isn’t breaking down!
:)
I think you need to change your cheese from bull to real. I live in small town USA and the county sheriff’s report as well as the larger town’s police report that go into detail on the internet tells the same story. A dramatic increase in violence, physical altercations and spousal/lover abuse, theft, meth not to mention the speeding tickets which usually accompany no insurance and/or no license. Times have changed in my neck of the woods.
However, when you have business to transact or need help then I find that people are generally friendly. So my encounters with checkers at grocery stores and retail workers are generally good natured.
Traffic is generally lower so the general flow is better, but there are a few bastards that drive recklessly because they can. But as long as you don't try to compete with them or obstruct them on purpose they are soon gone down the road.
The air is worse because of the fires. I hear about more crime, but haven't been affected directly. I have had my share of tsks and grunts by Karens when I'm not wearing my mask outside with no one within ten feet of me.
Also, I fly the LE flag at my house. I’ve got “banned video” & “infowars” bumper stickers on my back trunk. 2 incidents:
1. person behind me in McDonald’s line lightly tapped horn. I’m thinking what does this jerk want I can’t move up any closer. I look out my sideview mirror and he’s giving me the thumb up out his window.
2. was more harrowing. I’ve just stopped at a red light a couple miles north of Detroit. In my periphery on the passenger side I see a guy who had jumped out of his van and was rapidly approached. I look. He’s at my passenger window giving me 2 thumbs up and then he goes back and jumps in his van before the light changed. I thanked him with a thumbs up. That one was last week. The first was 3 weeks ago. I prolly got exact times and days somewhere. I take lots of notes during the course of my retirement days. It works for my unusual brain.
Neighborhood: About 80% like-minded with lots of LE.
America remains civil in places where such behavior still incurs an extreme risk of taking a bullet between the eyes.
PS. . .I forgot to mention the murder in the next town to the east in another county which as it has been reported had three accomplices. Motorcyles, fourwheelers, etc. are zooming at alarming speeds on the highway and in the country and elementary school aged kids are riding all over the place in town in their folks golf carts and side by sides.
But to back up this argument, the article focuses on the horrors of San Francisco, New York City and Chicago and concludes, "that's what America has become." But San Francisco, New York City and Chicago are not America.
One more thing:
I was up near Mackinac Bridge in Indian River visiting my childhood buddy and his wife who I hadn’t seen in years. After dinner & wine the conversation turned to politics and philosophy. WHOA NELLY! It got so heated Debbie said she would off POTUS if she could. I looked her in the eye and said, “would you shoot me?” She stormed off and went to bed. Poor buddy Mike was just sitting there. He has beginning Alzheimers. Sad. Lot of pressure on Deb. I slept with one eye open in the guest bedroom. In the morning she made a great breakfast. We said our bye byes after my compliments on her always good cooking.
There has to be ideological separation.
It is the only path to peace.
Incompatibility + Proximity = Conflict.
Yes. time to recall Heinlein’s dictum: “An armed society is a polite society.”
Democrats are evil.
Nope, us golfers stick together.
Right Donald?
“Think not I’ve come to bring peace....”
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