San Francisco Police chief William Scott told NBC Nightly News that stores must be willing to hire security guards to make a private persons arrest.
Consequently, that’s not working out very well. Thieves, some wielding weapons and crowbars, load up, leave, then return for more. This from americanthinker.com.
I ran into an old California buddy online Sunday. He asked me why I moved to Texas.
We didn’t have a lot of time, so I gave him the shortest explanation I could: “It’s not California.”
For the ten or so friends, all former Californians, who have moved near us in Texas in the last year or so, no further explanation is needed. In Texas, 80 looters don’t pull their cars up to the swankiest department stores and loot the place in broad daylight with impunity.
San Francisco is different, and has been for a long time, nearly as long as it has allowed urinating and defecating and sleeping and shooting up heroin on public sidewalks.
That town’s mayor said this week they are finally going to “crack down.”
Will police arrest the thieves? Well, we will have to see about that. It’s still a misdemeanor in California to steal anything under $950 in value.
We’ve been in Texas nearly nine years. We’ve yet to see a human turd on a public sidewalk, let alone a human depositing one. We’ve yet to see a mob of thieves swarm a store to take away as much as they can carry while police look the other way.
Rampant crimes in San Francisco are “not new,” and “chaos reigns supreme” in the city, Lt. Tracy McCray told Fox News after a Neiman Marcus in San Francisco’s Union Square was hit by a mob of shoplifters who fled with merchandise.
“We get broken windows every few minutes. We got like 30 cars now that’s with broken windows here because people have experienced the smash-and-grab thing,” a car rental employee told Fox News, adding that he sees 10 car break-ins daily. “It goes on from morning to night every single day, over and over and over again. Nobody is doing anything about it.”
How did California become so bad so fast? Liberalism run amok?
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that the governor’s office and both houses of state Legislature and every statewide office are controlled by democrats. And it’s the most feverish element of that party, which not so incidentally has as its national platform unwavering support for the sins of same-sex “marriage” and baby-killing in the womb.
When the central ideological principles embraced by those in control are behaviors that the Bible declares sinful, is it surprising that “shoplifting” of anything that costs less than $950 is tolerated?
My bride and I saw it coming and came to Texas precisely because it is the place most unlike California. It amazes us that so many Californians still tolerate so much, while watching everything degenerate before their eyes.
Is there any clearer sign that civilization is collapsing in California? How bad is it when people living there appear to be oblivious?
San Francisco, or California in general, used to be a place to visit and spend a little money, take in a ball game, perhaps attend a convention, enjoy the weather.
But tourism anymore—to see what? And at what risk of robbery and bodily harm? Definitely no. And the businesses and venues in California are being deprived of the millions of dollars in tourist money that is being spent elsewhere as a result of asinine liberal policies.
