Posted on 07/06/2021 9:33:52 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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.
A man was caught on video in June filling a garbage bag with what appeared to be hair products before leaving the drugstore on his bicycle. A security guard, who was recording the incident, tried to grab the individual, though he eluded custody.
Walgreens shuttered 17 of its stores in the San Francisco area in the past five years, and the company said thefts in the area are four times more likely than anywhere else in the country as executives budgeted 35 times more for security personnel to guard the chains.
Target executives in the city also decided to limit business hours in response to an uptick in larceny.
Shoppers can no longer buy products in the chains after 6 p.m. after once being permitted to shop until 10 p.m.
"For more than a month, we’ve been experiencing a significant and alarming rise in theft and security incidents at our San Francisco stores," a spokesperson for Target said at the time.
San Francisco Police Lt. Tracy McCray faulted District Attorney Chesa Boudin's "criminals first agenda" for the uptick in theft incidents.
"What happened in that Walgreens has been going on in the city for quite a while," she said in June. "I’m used to it. I mean, we could have a greatest hits compilation of people just walking in and cleaning out the store shelves and security guards, the people who work there, just standing by helplessly because they can’t do anything."
"The 'criminals first' agenda from the district attorney [is to blame] because he's not prosecuting any of those crimes as felonies [or] as a commercial burglary. [Criminals realize,] 'This is gonna get slapped down to a misdemeanor,'" she continued.
Thefts under $950 are considered a misdemeanor in McCray's area of operation, she added, and suspected criminals are often issued citations instead of spending time in jail ahead of their court date. In some cases, she said, thieves will have their case thrown out if they skip their court appearances.
Neither the San Francisco Police Department nor Neiman Marcus immediately responded to requests for comment from the Washington Examiner.
Societal trust is a fragile thing. Complex societies can not operate without it. The USA is in the business of destroying societal trust.
Sheesh. Are all criminals black now?
Its no longer “looting”... in left speech its “symbolic taking”.
What delicious irony if stores started to make people show a picture ID, like a driver’s license, in order to enter their stores.
My neighbor's kid worked at Dick Sporting Goods a few years ago. It was his first 'real' job. They were trained to never intervene in a shoplifting event - get a description of the perp and call mall security was all they were to do.
Its not that he wanted to be a hero, rather for a naive, properly-raised kid, it was a lesson on real-world modern American lawfare, corporate governance, and especially, race.
Exactly!
The Oppressed Classes appear to have excellent taste in luxury accessories. For some unknown reason the proggies “reimagining” law enforcement didn’t see this coming. Or are in on the take.
“How can you people in CA allow such stupid things become law?”
How can such stupid people even stay alive? Maybe the criminal and prisoner communities have more power than we thought?
All of these problems were compounded by the feds telling the state that we had too many prisoners in jail and we had to let a lot fo them out due to overcrowded prisons. Instead of pushing back and telling the damned feds MYOB, we let them out and crime soared.
The staggering stupidity abounds at every level. The latest manifestation is the incredibly stupid “defund the police.”
With the cops standing across the street, taking video with their phones and handcuffs dangling from their belts. Whats that for if youre not going to use them? Decoration?
It's all the Demrat dipsticks out there who simply take civilization for granted. They just assume that stores will be open and well stocked. They give no thought to all the factors that make it possible.
“not my job”
>>and Personal use of most illegal drugs.
Ivermectin?
Zinc?
The main, top of the story video, which began running immediately was an on-air interview with Fauxi selling his “health” solutions.
For that reason I will not share this link with anyone.
After the riots last year some people were picked up hawking the stolen merchandise.
If the local police aren't going to pursue it, go Capone on them and send in the FBI to collect taxes on their unreported sales of luxury items.
Why would they run after the looting? Chairman Chesa would never take a case, and, besides, isn’t petty theft a de facto legal act in the dump of SF?
It might be a surprise for some, but Californians did see this coming, and did vote to take steps to prevent the current situation. Google proposition 187. It passed with a large majority, but then was overturned by our corrupt courts and, frankly, we were out played by the Democrat machine.
California is a warning for the rest of the nation.
The powers that be decided that importing millions of illiterate campesinos was the easy path to cheap labor and cheap votes, and the resulting chaos is a direct result of those new Democrat voters choices.
This country of ours was served by many a man who lost his life in combat. Now, LGBT plus CRT/PC types and you name it have control. I have not seen one damn Gen. now with any valor award or PH.
Insurance companies will stop covering retail stores in certain cities, and that will be the end of that...
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