Chicago is trying to surpass San Francisco in a race toward lawless anarchy

American Thinker ^ | 12/01/2021 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Two American cities, San Francisco and Chicago, seem to be competing to see which one can descend farther into the dystopia of gang rule, with honest citizens held captive to anarchy in the streets, afraid to leave their homes and finding nowhere to buy life's essentials if they do venture out.  Master filmmaker John Carpenter got it wrong when he predicted which American cities would fail in his 1980s and '90s dystopian fantasies Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.

Monica Showalter covered the descent of the City by the Bay yesterday in her piece titled "The Fall of San Francisco."  Today it is Chicago's turn, and even though I have lived in the San Francisco area for over three decades, I must say that Chicago is making an impressive sprint toward hell, leaving San Francisco in a cloud of bloody dust.

When it comes to retail theft, both cities have seen their premier shopping districts, North Michigan Avenue and Union Square, devastated by looters.  In fact, while S.F. has recently seen storefronts boarded up, as Monica reported yesterday, over a quarter of all retail space downtown is now vacant, and on Michigan Avenue, where looting was extensive in the George Floyd memorial riots, lots of prominent retail space is going begging.

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Not that the retail pillaging is over there.  Shoplifters heisted 13 grand over the weekend from two beauty parlors.

But it is the realm of homicide where Chicago makes its case for pre-eminence.  In what the corporate media would trumpet as a "grim milestone" if Republicans somehow could be blamed, Cook County yesterday surpassed 1,000 homicides for the year.  That's in a county with 5.15 million people.

[SeekAndFind]

NOTE: San Francisco's much smaller population of 875,000 has generated only 41 homicides this year so far. If it were to match Cook County's rate, it would have to more than quadruple the death toll.

[Jim W N]

...and the volume of poo on the sidewalks and streets...

[Lurker]

They voted for this. Now let the, get it good and hard.

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[Buttons12]

Apples and oranges.
Or, say, Calcutta and Mogadishu.
Each is going Caracas in its own special way.

[Bonemaker]

"..Cook County Passes 1,000 Homicides For 2021, The Highest Toll In Nearly 3 Decades - Block Club Chicago.." 11/30/2021

[Iron Munro]

BLM = Burn, Loot, Murder

[ridesthemiles]

And the contaminated needles & syringes washed into SF Bay by the street sweepers.

[Iron Munro]

And the contaminated needles & syringes washed into SF Bay by the street sweepers.

On the UP side, they are no longer inundated with those pesky plastic straws or irritating Trump Tweets!

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[Grampa Dave]

Walnut Creek is in the running with the looting of Nordstrom and now looters looting each other.

Walnut Creek Looters robbing other looters!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1465393803120889860

[Grampa Dave]

“..Cook County Passes 1,000 Homicides For 2021, The Highest Toll In Nearly 3 Decades - Block Club Chicago..” 11/30/2021

The city of Chicago ain’t doing to bad re ferals killing each other!

https://heyjackass.com/

[Grampa Dave]

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[Lee25]

No time in entire human history had blacks created anything close to civilization. For same reason one can’t expect them to maintain a civil society. Yes apartheid was bad and blacks were oppressed, how is South Africa now? The tragic truth is that in current civilization, it is EITHER civil society OR blacks. These two things never mix.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: No time in entire human history had blacks created anything close to civilization.

Except maybe - Wakanda. :)

[kaktuskid]

Chicago was a safer place when Capone ran it!

[Vaduz]

Two Un-American Liberal cities, San Francisco and Chicago.....

[PhineasSpear]

NooooooooOOOO PROBLEM! Just BLAME WHITEY / racism / slavery / the Founding Fathers / “America”, et al, anything but BLACKS and their BEHAVIOR, and LEFTIST POLITIKS!!!!

[Vaduz]

Bingo