lawliness in CA on th rise

Lawlessness in big cities is on the rise.

Are progressive liberal policies failing the NY, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other large cities?
It appears this way.
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Stephen Sorace
Wed, August 9, 2023 at 7:22 AM PDT


A mob of thieves was captured on video fleeing a luxury clothing store in Glendale, California, carrying armloads of merchandise reportedly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in broad daylight on Tuesday.

Bystanders outside the Americana at Brand shopping complex in Glendale recorded now-viral cellphone video of the dozens of masked thieves running out of an Yves Saint Laurent store.

"All merchandise was taken in less than a minute," a store worker told LA 11

Video shows that a delivery driver nearby tried to stop one thief as another bystander shouted, "Let him go! It’s not worth it."

CALIFORNIA JEWELRY STORE HIT BY SMASH-AND-GRAB ROBBERS WHO SNATCHED NEARLY $900,000 IN MERCHANDISE

 

Hundreds of government employees in San Francisco told to work from home due to the high levels of crime in the area, report says.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-government-employees-san-francisco-164505153.html

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  • Some government staff in San Francisco have been told to work remotely, a report says.
  • Department of Health and Human Services staff were asked to work from home due to local crime.
  • The city has been battling a drug epidemic and a homelessness crisis in recent years.

Hundreds of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services in San Francisco have been told to work from home due to the high level of crime in the area around its office, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Unfortunately some
America's cities have become horror stories of crime, dirt and death

https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-cities-become-horror-stories-170000479.html

 

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/166-old-luxury-retailer-san-213524416.html

166-year-old luxury retailer in San Francisco warns: This could be our last year

Equally devastating have been a litany of destructive San Francisco (Liberal Democrat) policies, including allowing the homeless to occupy our sidewalks, to openly distribute and use illegal drugs, to harass the public and to defile the city’s streets,” he wrote.


Chachas, who ran for a US senate seat in Nevada as a Republican in 2010, argued that current conditions make San Francisco “unlivable for its residents, unsafe for our employees, and unwelcoming to visitors from around the world.”

San Francisco’s mayor, London Breed, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, and the San Francisco board of supervisors’ offices did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

 

His name sounds like a brand label, in an upscale San Francisco men's shop.

 

And "lawliness" at the top of this thread. OK I know it was a mistake - but it sounds familiar. As if "lawly" and "lawliness" were real words - "lawly" being casual use for "somewhat legal" - legal..ish. All "ly" words sound a bit crazy -- after all, we did have a craze for them. But it's over. Smart.ly is Quantic U. now. Clad and cloaked in well-deserved DEAC respectability. Dynamite threads, says the fashion guy, here.

"Hey, can they DO that? Like, is it legal?"
"Um, not strictly legal perhaps, but definitely lawly. Yeah - lawly for sure."

Right. Lawliness --- like Jon Stewart's word -- "Truthiness." Contains a small grain of truth and a magnum granum salis. And then there's Grammarly. To improve writing? THAT name really gets to me!

 

Valid point, indeed I made a typo or autocorrect changed it.

But still large cities are suffering from high crime, post pandemic changes in how business is conducted, people shopping on line all that is changing the cities.
But crime is one of the major issues in large cities always was, this is cyclical and policy makers also have affect on it. I think on this issue from governor, to mayor all are accountable.

 

I like holding the criminals accountable. That's the way I'd like to see it go.

If people shop online and the stuff comes to their door cheaper and better than what they can go and get, by bus, walking or car ... what is a store property going to be worth in a few years? And yes -crime. Criminals can't readily flee from Amazon etc. with a stolen shopping cart full of goods... obviously they can, from stores.

What does that tell us? Right. FAR fewer stores in our future. We have three malls in our town. Two bottom-feeders (junk) are taking out some stores - replacing them with residential condos. The third is upscale and might not have to do that for 200 years - I dunno.
Their take - Pandemic - so what? Recession? What recession? Not many places like that, these days...

 

California’s governor is rushing to tackle San Francisco’s crime epidemic amid fears the city’s lawless spiral could jeopardize his presidential ambitions.

Gavin Newsom has deployed state law enforcement officers to confront the city’s ongoing drug crisis, which has seen a surge in fentanyl-related deaths on its streets.

As a beacon of American progressive politics, images of San Francisco’s abandoned businesses and crime-ridden streets have national significance.
Mr Newsom, who is in his last term as governor, is conscious that the reputation of his home town of San Francisco is intrinsically linked to his own.

In an interview with Politico, he said he was “mindful that the buck stops here”.

“And I’m ultimately going to be held to account,” he added.

As California’s governor, Mr Newsom runs a state that on its own would be the world’s fifth largest economy.

But after a string of negative headlines amplifying concerns over crime in Californian cities, he has taken proactive steps to address hyper-local problems.

“I feel like I’m being pulled back to being mayor,” he told Politico.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ca-governor-deploys-highway-patrol-145511792.html


California Governor Gavin Newsom is directing the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to triple the resources allocated to fighting organized retail crime in Los Angeles alongside a new city task force.

The lawmaker’s office announced that CHP has been instructed to aid local L.A. law enforcement in combatting a rash of retail crimes that have risen to crisis levels in recent weeks. The highway patrol will allocate additional investigators to a new law enforcement task force devoted to combatting organized retail theft, which L.A. Mayor Karen Bass introduced on Thursday.

 

Progressive liberal policies pay for the crumbling infrastructure of the failed southern states.

 

There are real problems in California but the solutions aren't being offered by Republicans, especially those in other states. Homelessness and professional shoplifters aren't solved by cutting taxes, banning books, limiting education, outlawing abortion, firing elected officials and/or abolishing their offices, or any of the other ways that modern Republicans respond to social ills.

 

Where are the homeless people in the (liberal) cities from? Often from (conservative) towns. It's a shared problem and likely to need shared solutions. (This was one of Jack Layton's recurring points.)

 

"I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood..." – Trump, July 2020