Posted on 03/05/2018 10:35:59 AM PST by nickcarraway
Nothing like being the head of a politically influential union to get a response when your car is burglarized.
At least that was the case when Firefighters Union Local 798 President Tom O’Connor walked out of San Francisco City Hall after an afternoon of contract negotiations to find his 2010 Chevy Tahoe broken into — for the third time in two years.
“They got a garbage bag that was full of my kid’s clothes,” O’Connor said. “About the only thing of value was a pair of size-13 basketball shoes — if you want to call that valuable.”
One of O’Connor’s fellow negotiators suggested tweeting a photo of the damaged sport utility vehicle to show that no one is exempt from the epidemic of car break-ins — even people who park across the street from City Hall in the middle of the day.
So that’s what went out on the union’s Twitter feed — along with the message, “While at City Hall this happened #citysfine #noproblemshere @MarkFarrellSF @SFGate.”
There are so many car smash-and-grabs in San Francisco — 30,000 were reported last year — that police usually don’t respond to calls unless one is in progress. Most of the time, victims are told to file a report online.
Like many repeat victims, O’Connor didn’t bother with a report. So he was a bit surprised the next day when a pair of cops from Northern Station showed up at union headquarters on Mission Street to ask if he needed any help in filing one out.
“They even dusted the car for fingerprints,” O’Connor said.
A little later, District Attorney George Gascón himself called and asked if he could be of any help.
Police spokesman David Stevenson said the officers went to union headquarters because “a concern regarding an auto burglary that occurred
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Some animals are much more equal than others.
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My car was burglarized some years ago. Police response: “Gee, that’s too bad.”
“.. dusted the car for fingerprints”
Police never do this.
They write you a report for insurance company and then drive to the nearest donuts shop.
I’m putting myself out on a limb here, but could it be that the persons who broke into his vehicle (three times) might be some of those that have taken “sanctuary” in the great SF??
But, of course, even if that is the case, we cannot ever admit such a policy as “sanctuary cities” promotes lawlessness?
30,000 car smash and grabs in one year in one city?
And that doesn’t include unreported ones?
So they just tolerate their slavery?
If you work to buy something, and some asshole steals it, he’s stolen your labor.
He’s made you his slave.
The bay area has given the finger to any type of law and order...this is what you get. Take heart, union lackey, you could be Kate Steinle’s parents.
They reap what they sow.
And you are correct. They will never admit that they had a hand in creating the problem and the voters will believe them.
The usual BS justification is that the insurance companies will reimburse the owner so no one is hurt.
So, they are actually paying to be slaves.
They got some brilliant people there in San Fran.
But only the little folk, the common folk can be slaves. The rich do venture out from their gated neighborhoods and do eventually get hit too.
They used to. Back around 1982 I had my car broken into while it was parked on campus when I was going to school, and the college police dusted for fingerprints.
' I think he was just having fun playing with the brush and the graphite powder.
I’m sure this would get the cops going: “I want to report a vehicle break- in in progress, suspect possibly armed with handgun.”
DeKalb County Georgia, 1995, my car was stolen out of my driveway overnight. The county cops have yet to respond.
I was out $120 bucks for a window and some loose change. The downtown businesses lost my business forever, and that of how many others that I've told my story too.
Illegal alien..
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