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.
Oh my, and patronized by wealthy liberals for all of those years.
Without law and order there can be no “civilization.”
The result of the “defund the police” movement and having ultra liberal DA’s.
So now what? Just sell items priced over $950? Jackasses don’t realize this will be a growing trend?
“Authorities remain baffled...”
Some people did some thing
C’mon, man, it’s for the children. LOL!
Feral descendants of the “54-40 or fight!” Western settlers.
SF? Isn’t that where you can get a map to avoid stepping in SHIT?
They hit the Neiman Marcus at the Stanford Shopping Center a few weeks back, too.
Yep, laws actually make us free. We're free to walk down the street, drive our cars, and open businesses when we are fairly confident that we won't be mugged or killed or robbed because lawlessness is held in check. When a place becomes lawless, only the lawless are free because they have no skin in the game. San Fran-Freako is lawless like a town in an old western movie that needs a strong hero to bring law and order. However, they voted for lawlessness and lawlessness they shall have.
I do not know why any business stays in a place like SF.
Well that’s a shame. How much money have they given to BLM?
Liberal governance is why we can’t have nice things.
The worse things get for these progressive bastions the wider I smile.
This happens all the time. It’s an epidemic in most cities. But, it’s rarely ever reported on the news.
Loss prevention has largely been curtailed because retailers (and their insurers) are too fearful of violating someone’s ‘rights.’
Gotta fund the “WS” money needs. OH. Never mind. Apparently it WASN’T the “biggest threat to this country today” doing it.
NANZI PELOSI (D-CACA): “People Will Do What They Do”
Aleister Crowley: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
Who’s law?
They have undermined “law”
Well, on second glance the door is plainly marked “CURBSIDE PICK UP”. Also looks like and LEO using his phone to video the event.
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