San Francisco Organized Shoplifting Surge Prompts Target to Cut Operating Hours

Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 6:58 AM UTC

adjkant wrote: post #69

BitwiseFool wrote: post #47

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Here is a really broad, and hopefully neutral, take on the subject. There is now a popular movement in America that believes the Justice System is too harsh, especially on minor crimes. This is also coupled with the perception that police officers are prone to using force when it is unnecessary, and, that they use deadly force way too often and haphazardly. There is also a huge racial component to all of this, which…

I think this is a pretty decent summary, but I do genuinely have one factual question here: > Many homeless people defecate and urinate freely in public because the police have simply stopped issuing citations for such behavior. What was a citation doing previously on this given that homeless people would simply ignore a citation? Has this actually increased in a way we can measure? I haven't been in SF since the pan…

Post by josephcsible » Wed, Jul 07, 2021, 5:02 PM UTC

pas wrote: post #142

josephcsible wrote: post #135

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> Why does the DA refuse to prosecute? Because he is extremely pro-criminal. This is why there's a recall campaign against him. > it doesn't seem that Prop 47 is the big bad wolf here. I agree that Chesa is a much bigger problem, but Prop 47 is still a problem too.

What's the problem with Prop 47?