> 'We don't have a lot of choices left:' SF small businesses grapple with increase in burglaries

Tom Leykis wrote:

It's turning into Somalia.

It's turning into Denmark.
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At some point the people are going to start taking care of these crooks themselves - the old fashioned way.

No police or courts needed.

Cassava, a restaurant in the Outer Richmond, was also hit with a burglary earlier this month and totaled its losses at about $3,000. Owner Yuka Sweetpea told SFGATE that three iPads used for ordering food as well as the restaurant’s iPhone were stolen. But checkbooks and a credit card were also later discovered as taken after transactions at clothing and grocery stores were processed on the card.

In the end, Sweetpea said she wasn't angry at the thief, but rather at the government for not providing enough assistance to its citizens.

Yeah, how could you blame the thief? How is it his fault?

"The government" isn't providing enough ... assistance?



I THINK WE FOUND THE PROBLEM, FOLKS!

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It's turning into Denmark.
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Maybe.   In the end, Sweetpea said she wasn't angry at the thief, but rather at the government for not providing enough assistance to its citizens.

  This is the attitude that lets criminals run free.

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San Franciscans?

Some of them will.

Cavity wrote:

Funny, everybody wants to move here.
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And tourists come from all over the world....

Yeah, ONCE.  They then leave Burglarized, Victimized or just plain disgusted, never to return.

The tune will change once it's inner city gangs taking what they want.

Now they are just coddled children and ineffective policing.

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Yeah, how could you blame the thief? How is it his fault?

"The government" isn't providing enough ... assistance?



I THINK WE FOUND THE PROBLEM, FOLKS!

The difference between a conservative and a liberal:

A conservative comes up on a mugging victim and says "Who did this to you? You need help!"
A liberal comes up on a mugging victim and says "Who did this to you? he needs help!"

Tom Leykis wrote:

I don't think so.  We left because it's too far gone.  They elected a city government that allows open air drug dealing and open prostitution.  They just elected a DA that lets everybody go.

You won't read this in SFGATE, but there is a gang war over who controls the drug trade in SF.  The cops aren't allowed to do anything about it.  Cops are leaving too.

It is devolving into the same kind of government in Mexico, weak police and run by the gangs. 
Watch when they start executing Judges and politicians, that is not very far off.   
And then factor in the borders being opened in the near future and the inrush of criminals waiting on the other side.

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It is devolving into the same kind of government in Mexico, weak police and run by the gangs. 
Watch when they start executing Judges and politicians, that is not very far off.   
And then factor in the borders being opened in the near future and the inrush of criminals waiting on the other side.

If they do start killing elected officials it won't be long before the feds come in and show them who is boss.  One of the quickest ways to the government's full attention is to attack the government.  Still, it would be a rapid, forceful and humiliating culture change for liberalism in America.

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Just like in Mexico - when the gangs that run things get a little too carried away, the Federales come in and kill a bunch of them, make a big show of it, and then things go back to normal.

Get used to parts of the US running under that model, especially on the west coast.   Their culture is already very accepting of that way of living.

I would hope our FBI would be a little more corruption proof than Mexico's FBI but you have a point.

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I could see the drug dealing and prostitution.  After all, those could be argued to be "victimless crimes" (human and drug trafficking crimes not withstanding)

But burglary, shoplifting and robbery are actual crimes, unequivocally.  SF strikes me as a group of liberals that are trying to out lib each other in an effort to show who is most enlightened.  In actually, they've crawled too far up their own ass and spend all their time telling us their shyt doesn't stink.

I have to beg to differ a bit.  Under CA state law stealing or shoplifting $950 or less at a time is NOT a crime.  The new DA won't go after ANY theft, if the criminal "needed" what he took.

We left, just as this nonsense was getting started.  Now, we're 3 states away.