(Screencap via social media.)
Posted on 07/27/2023 9:25:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It wasn’t until just moments ago that I became aware of just how shockingly bad the shoplifting crime wave is — and I’m the former San Francisco resident who can’t seem to stop writing about the city’s long descent into criminality and accompanying economic decline.
Shoplifting has become so rampant over the last few years — and not just in San Francisco — that it’s almost impossible for regular news readers to go more than a day or two without seeing a new video of a criminal or two casually walking out of a major retailer with whatever they want.
Have you seen the latest clip making the rounds? Three “plus-size suspects,” according to the New York Post, loaded up three shopping carts worth of stuff at a Burlington in Sacramento and then loaded up the stolen goods “into a red Dodge Charger as alarms blared in the background.”
The slow-motion audacity is almost thrilling.
(Screencap via social media.)
Whatever you think of the “Ocean’s 11” remake with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, today’s short film is the exact opposite.
Despite the all-in-the-family vibe of today’s thieves, much of the shoplifting wave isn’t committed by starving Jean Valjeans desperate for a loaf of bread. In San Francisco, organized crime gangs, often operating out of Oakland, have capitalized on the city’s anything-goes attitude towards so-called lifestyle crimes. Their thugs go in to steal high-margin goods that the OC outfits then sell on the black market.
It was literally just yesterday that I shared a CNN report about shoplifting at a San Francisco Walgreens that caught an actual shoplifter on video — one of three thefts that occurred at that store in the 30 minutes the CNN crew was there.
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A CNN crew visited the most shoplifted Walgreens in the US. The San Francisco store has to lock up ice cream & other low-value items. During the crew’s time there, they saw three shopliftings. pic.twitter.com/hctrL4Zkw9
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) July 26, 2023
Sometimes the thieves are drifters like that guy appears to be. Other times they’re somewhat more organized opportunists like the “plus-size” crew in Sacramento. And then you have the OC outfits that are making the big bucks. But whichever kind of criminal you see on the latest video, they all have one thing in common: they know that store employees are usually forbidden from trying to stop them during the act and that Democrat-run cities and states won’t hold them accountable after the fact, so they take advantage.
But the New York Post really buried the lede on their latest report. You have to get all the way to the last sentence to find this hidden anti-gem: “Retail theft in America has skyrocketed to $94 billion — an alarming 90% increase since 2018, according to the National Retail Federation.”
Shoplifting is big business.
“the shoplifting wave isn’t committed by starving Jean Valjeans desperate for a loaf of bread”
You can’t eat a 75” flat screen tv.
It’s the “me me” generation that is being strengthened in America by idiots who push this “reparations” BS telling people “they’re entitled to whatever they want!”
“Retail theft in America has skyrocketed to $94 billion — an alarming 90% increase since 2018, according to the National Retail Federation.”
There are two lines:
Line 1, you have to pay for it but unlimited supply
Line 2, Free stuff as long as it lasts.
Made me think of this:
Is that a 20 lb turkey stuffed down her pants leg? Or is she just that huge?
Suckers *cough* I mean “law-abiding citizens”.
That “plus size” wench looks like she stole a couple of hogs and stuffed them in her pants. Should be on “My 600 Pound Life”.
At least now we get an accurate representation of what a live news report from the Tower of Babel would have looked like.
Saw a short interview of a San Francisco liquor store owner the other day. She said that she is robbed, on the average, six times a day.
Not six times a month, or six times a week. Six times a day.
If the left isn’t going to be upset about the stealing, they should at least be upset about the tax evasion. Aren’t they the ones who proclain everyone should pay their fair share? And only people cheating on taxes have anything to fear from the 87,000 new IRS agents?
No most are Blackish and Fat.
Stephen Green is naive, and likely has been his whole life.
Jean Valjeans?????
Isn’t he a former porn star?
Seems to me a real easy solution, is to have the door close shut when there is a looting going on...
Does shoplifting accumulate to push criminals into felony territory? The sixth time you are caught with $950 worth of goods? When you get caught with three confederates getting into the same car, each with $900 plus?
Can retailers put trackers in and identify the fence or black market?
This is organized crime.
Does shoplifting accumulate to push criminals into felony territory? The sixth time you are caught with $950 worth of goods? When you get caught with three confederates getting into the same car, each with $900 plus?
Can retailers put trackers in and identify the fence or black market?
This is organized crime.
Does shoplifting accumulate to push criminals into felony territory? The sixth time you are caught with $950 worth of goods? When you get caught with three confederates getting into the same car, each with $900 plus?
Can retailers put trackers in and identify the fence or black market?
This is organized crime.
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