“This is happening all over soft on crime California. There are stories like this in the news at least weekly if not more but not usually this big.”
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The insurance companies and the high end retailers will see to it that the local authorities put a stop to this in the short term. In the medium to long term, they will close and probably move in to protected members-only areas, the empty high rise office spaces would be good for this. Paying $5,000 a year to access those stores will keep out the hoodlums.
As far as the big box stores, it will continue to happen. The local authorities will support big box retailers with tax breaks and subsidies, for now, to keep them open, but eventually they, too, will close.
At that point it will be order everything online and have it dropped on your porch. You’ll have to be home to get anything, or it will be stolen off your step, and the local authorities won’t lift a finger to stop that.
You are sadly probably completely correct.
I’ve hinted sometimes on NextDoor in our liberal region, when someone posts their Ring camera of guys breaking into cars down the suburban roads in a long drive-by, and they ask for help, and call police (LOL - whom they hate), that the police won’t do squat because everyone has been taught that property is unimportant. The only way they might pay attention is if someone gets battered, or murdered (happened recently here in fact, big state-wide story that involved murder just 5 minutes from our house). They don’t care about property - because you liberals didn’t care about property and you voted this in.