Helter Skelter
When I Get To The Bottom I Go Back To The Top
Looters were captured on video Monday ransacking a Neiman Marcus in San Francisco as thefts continue to plague businesses in the area.
At least nine suspects smashed display cases, snatched handbags, and jetted out of the building before law enforcement arrived to the scene at about 6 p.m., according to footage. The suspects were seen running out of the store with their hands full of merchandise before entering an apparent getaway car that sped off down a busy intersection.
Vid at link.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/san-francisco-looters-neiman-marcus-california
Target and Walgreens are heightening security efforts in major cities across California amid increased theft and crime, new reports suggest.
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento are among the cities with the most organized retail crime in the country, according to the California Retailer’s Association. As a result, stores have been closing early or permanently shuttering.
Target stores in San Francisco are now closing early, moving from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with a Financial District store closing as early as 5p.m. on Saturday, according to hours listed on its website. Most stores open between 7 and 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/target-walgreens-close-early-due-to-thefts-in-california-stores
The Fourth of July reeled into “12 hours of non-stop chaos” Sunday night with several victims wounded by celebratory gunfire, a homicide and a massive sideshow marred by gunfire. The night culminated at the sideshow, where more than 200 participants pelted police officers with debris and flashed them with hand-held lasers.
Embattled Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong told reporters that the level of violence and gunfire overwhelmed his officers.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/07/06/oakland-july-4-sideshow-violence/
Watch CA. Something’s gotta give.
As the state faces a growing threat from drought, an increasing number of water agencies are planning to require flow meters on agricultural wells, part of a landmark effort to measure and constrain pumping that used to be free and unlimited. It’s a controversial step aimed at protecting water supplies that could change cultivation practices in the Golden State’s thirsty fields.
“It’s hard to be as efficient as possible if you don’t know how much water you’re using,” said Sierra Ryan, interim water resources manager for Santa Cruz County.
Under the state’s tough new groundwater protection law, “we now have a legal obligation to manage our groundwater sustainably,” she said. “And we cannot manage the basin with such large uncertainties in our water use.”
The new approach is a major shift. Since California’s early rough-and-tumble frontier days, the ability to pump water from a private well on personal property has been an agricultural birthright. If you owned the land, the thinking went, you owned the water under it. So while cities charge residents based on the amount of water they use, rural well owners did not need to report – or measure – their pumping.
Watch the water! Doom, doom, doom!
Very interesting. My best friend lives in the foothills east of Sacramento and said gangs come up in cars to towns all around Sacramento break into houses. Never was that way until a few years ago.