2aguy
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The democrat party creates over 95% of our gun crime by releasing violent gun offenders over and over again through democrat party judges and prosecutors in democrat party controlled cities....
Now, through democrat party policies on how much you can steal before you are committing a felony, the democrat party has created a new business model.....go into a store, steal under 900 dollars in goods.....simply walk out....go to another store, repeat....then sell those stolen items
Democrats.....why on earth do people vote for this crime supporting, racist, anti-semitic, anti-asian, violent party..........
This “anything goes” mentality has led to an amazing epidemic of shoplifting. It’s amazing because it’s unheard of anywhere else — even in California — and because it’s become organized.
Thieves enter stores, take whatever they want, and walk out. Store security guards no longer even bother to pursue offenders out of fear that the encounter will become violent. They take as much as the legal limit on retail theft allows. And then they go to another store and do the same thing.
The thieves sell their shoplifted goods in the open in little sidewalk markets.
“Half of Walgreens was on the sidewalk. I’m not kidding,” Ahsha Safaí, a member of the board of supervisors said. “I was blown away. I’ve never seen anything like it in this city.”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, no fewer than 17 Walgreens Drug Stores have closed in the last 5 years.
Mr. Safai may be ignorant of the solution but he knows the reason for the spike in shoplifting. “If there are no consequences for their actions, then you invite the behavior. Over and over,” he said. So the solution is to remove consequences and invite lawbreaking?
Now, through democrat party policies on how much you can steal before you are committing a felony, the democrat party has created a new business model.....go into a store, steal under 900 dollars in goods.....simply walk out....go to another store, repeat....then sell those stolen items
Democrats.....why on earth do people vote for this crime supporting, racist, anti-semitic, anti-asian, violent party..........
This “anything goes” mentality has led to an amazing epidemic of shoplifting. It’s amazing because it’s unheard of anywhere else — even in California — and because it’s become organized.
Thieves enter stores, take whatever they want, and walk out. Store security guards no longer even bother to pursue offenders out of fear that the encounter will become violent. They take as much as the legal limit on retail theft allows. And then they go to another store and do the same thing.
The thieves sell their shoplifted goods in the open in little sidewalk markets.
“Half of Walgreens was on the sidewalk. I’m not kidding,” Ahsha Safaí, a member of the board of supervisors said. “I was blown away. I’ve never seen anything like it in this city.”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, no fewer than 17 Walgreens Drug Stores have closed in the last 5 years.
So why not confront the criminals?Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average for stores elsewhere in the country, and the chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere, Cunningham said.
At CVS, 42% of losses in the Bay Area came from 12 stores in San Francisco, which are only 8% of the market share, said Brendan Dugan, director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations at the hearing.
The problem began in 2014 when Californians approved Proposition 47 that dramatically lowered the fines for shoplifting. But it hasn’t reached epidemic proportions anywhere else in the state except San Fransisco.CVS and Walgreens said they train employees to be engaged and visible to prevent theft, but to not confront thieves directly when it could turn violent. CVS security guards in San Francisco have been regularly assaulted, especially at the Seventh and Market streets location which is now closed, Dugan said. Some businesses instead hire costly off-duty police officers.
Although the majority of CVS shoplifting incidents in the city are by opportunists, Dugan said, professional crime accounts for 85% of the company’s dollar losses.
Why didn’t anyone else think of hiring “community ambassadors” to stop shoplifting? Brilliant.A statement from Safeway read at Thursday’s hearing blamed Prop. 47, which lowered penalties for thefts under $950, for “dramatic increases” in shoplifting losses. Safaí said he was proud of Prop. 47 and supported criminal justice reform and rehabilitation, but also urged prosecution for organized crime and more community ambassadors to prevent opportunistic shoplifting.
Mr. Safai may be ignorant of the solution but he knows the reason for the spike in shoplifting. “If there are no consequences for their actions, then you invite the behavior. Over and over,” he said. So the solution is to remove consequences and invite lawbreaking?