Posted on 11/12/2021 9:28:33 AM PST by simpson96
Social media users wondered if the San Francisco Chronicle had published satire when the outlet asked if residents should start to "tolerate" burglaries as part of their every day life amid a recent crime surge.
San Francisco has seen an increase in shootings, assaults, shoplifting, car break-ins and more in recent months. The city’s Central District, by way of example, experienced a 753% increase in car break-ins from May 2020 to May 2021. More than 150 families were so fearful they even hired private security to protect their property.
The rate of burglaries has been particularly concerning. As of Oct. 31, San Francisco police had received reports of 810 burglaries or attempted burglaries this year in the jurisdiction of the Mission District Police Station, a 13% increase from this time last year, according to the Chronicle.
Crime has apparently become so commonplace in the city that the Chronicle asked readers if residents should start to "tolerate" burglaries.
"Residents and city leaders are searching for answers: should they tolerate burglaries as a part of city living, and focus on barricading homes? Should repeat offenders get rehabilitation services, or be incarcerated so they can’t commit more crimes?" the outlet tweeted.
The piece notes the city is in a "quandary" as it tries to pursue criminal justice reform while "debating how to manage rates of property crime that for years have been among the highest in the nation." While some residents are "appalled" by the crime, others have learned to "grudgingly accept this element of city living."
Social media users shook their heads in response, with some asking "what the hell is going on" in the Golden City.
Others suggested residents take their safety into their own hands.
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Sounds like there’s problems in that San Francisco place. I will not be living there. If I lived there now, I would leave it.
I moved out of Los Angeles to Utah to escape such crap in 1982. Took a substantial pay cut. No one has to live in SFO. I have no sympathy. GFO or STFU.
If that’s what the elites want, there should be no private security, especially armed, and no closed gates in gated communities. Then we’ll see how tolerant they are.
they should tolerate rapes and burglaries
and then enslavement. .... ooops, already enslaved.
-PJ
Shameless Thieves Steal $1,600 In Goods From Connecticut Grocery Store
Ask If Nanci Pelosi or Camala Harris wouldn’t mind tolerating that, I’m sure they’d be all agiggle with it.
Sure, as long as it’s a politicians house.
San Francisco is a harbinger of things to come. There is a perfect storm of defanged police, permissive prosecuting attorneys, tolerance of BLM and Antifa crimes, no bail “reform”, Covid release of prison inmates, uncivil social trends, ginning up of resentment and class warfare against “the rich”. The result is rampant, open crime.
Golden isn't the right color for San Fran.
San Francisco: the leading edge of utopia where minds are so open that even burglaries should be tolerated. Glad I’m living in a narrow-minded community that doesn’t tolerate ‘utopian lawlessness.’
Think Showers
Let’s start by robbing the Chronicle of its building and equipment.
Eric Burdon (after the Animals)
San Franciscan Nights
Strobe lights beam creates dreams
Walls move minds do too
On a warm San Franciscan night
Old child, young child, feel alright
On a warm San Franciscan night
I wasn’t born there perhaps I’ll die there
There’s no place left to go, San Francisco
Cop’s face is filled with hate
Heavens above he’s on a street called love
When will they ever learn
Old cop young cop feel uptight
On a warm San Franciscan night
“...focus on barricading homes...
My daughter-in-law’s house in San Jose Costa Rica features bars on all the windows (of course), a small front yard, garage entrance with a wall/fence arrangement topped with razor wire, a 12 foot high back wall around the back yard also topped with razor wire with another tall lockable gate to protect the rear of the house. All of the neighboring houses are the same.
All but the very poorest of homes have some variation on this theme. They must be going to all this trouble for a reason. Burglars still ply their criminal trade, but they at least have to be somewhat clever and hard working to get anything.
Great post.
These are radicals "reimagining" society and it wouldn't be like this if they didn't like what they see. But it isn't only them, and replacing these two won't solve the problem. That the Chronic could even ask such a question shows how deeply the rot has gone. It's a rather amusing little dystopian social experiment so long as you don't actually have to live in it, but elites living large and the rabble ankle-deep in human waste isn't really the stuff of science fiction, it's the stuff of a particularly nasty little medieval town. This, we are told, is "progress".
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