Petty Thieves Plague San Francisco. ‘These Last Two Years Have Been Insane.’
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#2Anecdotally I have been hearing this from colleagues in SF
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#4> Some former police officials said in interviews that officers don’t feel it is worth making an arrest in low-level cases because they assume the district attorney won’t file charges. They also point to a statewide ballot measure passed in 2014—Proposition 47—that raised the dollar amount at which theft can be prosecuted as a felony from $400 to $950.
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#5> Some former police officials said in interviews that officers don’t feel it is worth making an arrest in low-level cases because they assume the district attorney won’t file charges. They also point to a statewide ballot measure passed in 2014—Proposition 47—that raised the dollar amount at which theft can be prosecuted as a felony from $400 to $950. https://archive.fo/WlnP3
I read that as "I'm not going to do my job, because this other group isn't doing their job."
I guess any city gets roughly the government they want/deserve/tolerate.
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#6What San Fransischam needs is a hero. Someone to fill up Alcatraz.
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#7It's coming to Seattle, too. Thieves smashed several of Nordstrom's windows at $50,000 apiece. Small businesses are simply giving up and leaving.
I expect it won't be long before storefronts sprout rollup steel shields that extend from the pavement up and cover the complete storefront. That's what businesses do in Brazil.
Amazon is abandoning one of its downtown buildings because the employees don't feel safe there anymore.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/citing-crime-concerns-...
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#8> Property crimes declined in San Francisco during the first year of the pandemic, but rose 13% in 2021.
There is an ongoing national narrative about how shoplifting and petty theft has been out of control and yet the numbers rarely back up this narrative. A two year stretch in which the numbers dropped then bounced back up by 13% is not "insane" by any stretch of the imagination.
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#9wage theft still vastly eclipses all retail theft, yet gets far fewer headlines… ask yourself why whenever you see the retail theft reporting hysteria
the people stealing from retail have very likely had more of their labor stolen than they’re lifting (it’s likely true for you too)
https://fair.org/home/shoplifting-is-big-news-stealing-milli...
https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...
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#10If your local prosecutor will not prosecute low-level crimes then the threshold for acceptable behaviour deteriorates further and further. See Cook County’s failed experiment with bail reform and electronic monitoring of violent offenders.