• Thanks Nancy Pelosi! Shoplifting in San Francisco is so out of control

    From GAP faggot commercials@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 25 11:54:41 2021
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    Among the many problems plaguing San Francisco in recent years,
    business leaders say one has become so commonplace that
    residents barely notice it: shoplifting.

    Walgreens says petty theft in the city has gotten so out of
    control that it’s had to close 17 of its stores. CVS has told
    its employees not to intervene because the thieves so often
    attack them, calling San Francisco “one of the epicenters of
    organized retail crime.”

    “We’ve had incidents where our security officers are assaulted
    on a pretty regular basis in San Francisco,” Brendan Dugan, head
    of CVS’ retail crime division, said at a 13 May hearing with
    city officials, according to a New York Times report.

    Police agree that the stealing has become endemic.

    “The one trend we are seeing is more violence and escalating –
    and much more bold,” Commander Raj Vaswani of the San Francisco
    Police Department said at the hearing. “We see a lot of repeat
    offenders.”

    Even more shocking is the fact that many shoplifters then sell
    their stolen goods on the street – often not far from the store
    where they stole them.

    For example, the Walgreens at 30th St and Mission St reported 16
    shoplifting incidents from November 2020 to February 2021. Just
    six blocks away, at 24th St and Mission, a city official said he
    saw Walgreens’ products being sold at an outdoor market.

    “Half of Walgreens was on the sidewalk. I’m not kidding,” Ahsha
    Safaí, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, told
    The New York Times. “I was blown away. I’ve never seen anything
    like it in this city.”

    Meanwhile, local residents are angry – at the stores. When a
    Walgreens that had seen 18 stealing incidents in four months
    announced it was closing, a group of citizens started a petition
    demanding that it remain open.

    “Walgreens Corp has an annual revenue of around $139.5 billion,”
    the petitioners wrote. “We think they can afford to keep needed
    stores like this open.”

    “In the middle of a pandemic and crisis, we cannot allow profit
    driven greedy Corporations to further traumatize and abandon
    their responsibility to the community,” one signer of the
    petition wrote. “Shame on Walgreens.”

    San Francisco has faced a painful set of concurring crises in
    recent years, including skyrocketing homelessness and an
    epidemic of drug overdoses. And in 2020, added to all that was
    the Covid-19 pandemic.

    City officials say all these problems have fueled the rise in
    shoplifting, but other factors have contributed as well. For one
    thing, in 2014 California passed a ballot measure called
    Proposition 47, which deems any nonviolent theft of items worth
    less than $950 a misdemeanor, not a felony.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/san-francisco- shoplifting-walgreens-closing-b1852470.html

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