[GOPJ]

The city believes thieves are toppling and stealing the almost century-old lampposts and ripping out the wires from the boxes at the bases. It’s a local chapter of a story happening around the country as valuable metals inside the lampposts are harvested for later resale.

It's NOT happening in Florida... and we don't have smash and grab or 'protesters' stopping traffic. Kent German needs to understand the San Francisco area has "millions of broken windows". Cities that don't enforce small laws are always shocked when the things THEY care about are also destroyed.

[thecodont]

Cities that don't enforce small laws are always shocked when the things THEY care about are also destroyed.

There's a small commercial building in the general neighborhood, recently occupied by a small market and vacated a few years ago. It would be a great place for another convenience store, but I guess the previous occupants thought the cost of doing business was too high, plus, there's no parking lot.

At any rate, neighbors have to regularly paint over the graffiti/tagging that appears on the walls of this vacated building, which is in good shape and not dilapidated. They are trying in their own way to avoid "broken window syndrome."

I hope another small business has the guts to occupy the space. They may have to install bollards like the store down the street a quarter mile, to prevent thieves from driving through the front door to smash in and grab the cash register and liquor.