Amongst the glittering car glass on our sidewalks, to the circular tire tracks in the middle of our intersections, to the smell of human waste on our sidewalks, you sense that San Francisco is becoming less safe. Yet, the progressives and moderates spin different perspectives on the state of crime in San Francisco.
Once again great information from Lou B. Mind boggling that this is what we are living with. What we never hear about is the effect of this on law abiding citizens. We are treated like trash by all levels of government. Pay your taxes and shut up is what we are being told.
If we could somehow withhold our taxes (esp. property) by putting the money in an escrow account while we sue the pants off of all elected officials ( and their crummy, crony appointees.) for breaching their oath to uphold the Constitution.
Did we vote for this? Or are ALL ELECTIONS really rigged selections….there is zero chance of saving SF..IN FACT there is zero chance of saving commiefornia as long as we sit in our lazyboys hoping for a better day..thanks for the update lou.._the Marxist mob is fully in charge.
Fantastic Lou. Also the amount of narcotics being seized by Tenderloin right now is mind boggling. But the vacuum doesn’t last long, one bag gets seized and someone else fills the roll selling another stash. It’s quite outrageous.
I have so many questions: 1) Despite what our recorded crimes are, the police/CHP are making arrests and we have a reportedly tough-on-crime DA in Brooke Jenkins who is at least trying to prosecute (unlike her predecessor). If the police/CHP/National Guard are making arrests and Jenkins is prosecuting, why aren’t things getting better? If you’re insinuating that police aren’t doing their jobs because their arrests aren’t counted, then that’s just wrong on their part. I don’t care how the arrests are counted after the fact, I just want them made and that’s on the police. 2) It’s correct that Prop 47 says any shoplifting under $950 is classified as a misdemeanor. Yet so many of the smash and grabs we hear about exceed that amount. So we can’t blame Prop 47 for those. So what’s happening there? Why aren’t the cops breaking up the crime rings behind those?
I think you missed my point. Everyone is discussing the ice above the water (crime) and my article points out that over 90% of crimes (the iceberg under the water) are not factored into crime totals. I was not pointing fingers at SFPD or the DA.
Prop 47 took away police officers ability to arrest shoplifters for felonies under penal code 459.5 and if the person had priors. The $950 threshold was only one aspect of Prop 47. The vast majority of shoplifting are under $950. SFPD does not track those crimes.
During my time in loss prevention in the city SFPD also discouraged LP personnel from contacting them implicitly, and sometimes explicitly. Any LP worker from from 2002 until around 2007 at least, certainly remembers the reprehensible officers Kato and Anderson who seemed to invariably have the "shoplift duty". As bad as they were, many officers I dealt with were nearly as bad.
Even when a felony (or felonies) was chargeable in theory, even when we could provide video, they often seemed disgusted to have to take custody of a citizen's arrest. And let us never forget the so-called "fencing unit" during those years. Hearing departments throughout the Bay Area act as if Prop 47 is the reason they're unable to do anything fills me rage.
I have so many tales... No side of the retail theft arguments is telling the truth; the DAs, police, corporations, activists, and politicians, Team Red, and Team Blue are all full of it.
Collapse the cities, burn the food and energy supplies, pay for trojan horse soldiers to invade from within, split the country into diametrically opposed parties to demoralize them. It's almost like there was a handbook or two guiding this along....
Once again great information from Lou B. Mind boggling that this is what we are living with. What we never hear about is the effect of this on law abiding citizens. We are treated like trash by all levels of government. Pay your taxes and shut up is what we are being told.
If we could somehow withhold our taxes (esp. property) by putting the money in an escrow account while we sue the pants off of all elected officials ( and their crummy, crony appointees.) for breaching their oath to uphold the Constitution.
Did we vote for this? Or are ALL ELECTIONS really rigged selections….there is zero chance of saving SF..IN FACT there is zero chance of saving commiefornia as long as we sit in our lazyboys hoping for a better day..thanks for the update lou.._the Marxist mob is fully in charge.
Fantastic Lou. Also the amount of narcotics being seized by Tenderloin right now is mind boggling. But the vacuum doesn’t last long, one bag gets seized and someone else fills the roll selling another stash. It’s quite outrageous.
Excellent commentary!
I have so many questions: 1) Despite what our recorded crimes are, the police/CHP are making arrests and we have a reportedly tough-on-crime DA in Brooke Jenkins who is at least trying to prosecute (unlike her predecessor). If the police/CHP/National Guard are making arrests and Jenkins is prosecuting, why aren’t things getting better? If you’re insinuating that police aren’t doing their jobs because their arrests aren’t counted, then that’s just wrong on their part. I don’t care how the arrests are counted after the fact, I just want them made and that’s on the police. 2) It’s correct that Prop 47 says any shoplifting under $950 is classified as a misdemeanor. Yet so many of the smash and grabs we hear about exceed that amount. So we can’t blame Prop 47 for those. So what’s happening there? Why aren’t the cops breaking up the crime rings behind those?
I think you missed my point. Everyone is discussing the ice above the water (crime) and my article points out that over 90% of crimes (the iceberg under the water) are not factored into crime totals. I was not pointing fingers at SFPD or the DA.
Prop 47 took away police officers ability to arrest shoplifters for felonies under penal code 459.5 and if the person had priors. The $950 threshold was only one aspect of Prop 47. The vast majority of shoplifting are under $950. SFPD does not track those crimes.
During my time in loss prevention in the city SFPD also discouraged LP personnel from contacting them implicitly, and sometimes explicitly. Any LP worker from from 2002 until around 2007 at least, certainly remembers the reprehensible officers Kato and Anderson who seemed to invariably have the "shoplift duty". As bad as they were, many officers I dealt with were nearly as bad.
Even when a felony (or felonies) was chargeable in theory, even when we could provide video, they often seemed disgusted to have to take custody of a citizen's arrest. And let us never forget the so-called "fencing unit" during those years. Hearing departments throughout the Bay Area act as if Prop 47 is the reason they're unable to do anything fills me rage.
I have so many tales... No side of the retail theft arguments is telling the truth; the DAs, police, corporations, activists, and politicians, Team Red, and Team Blue are all full of it.
Collapse the cities, burn the food and energy supplies, pay for trojan horse soldiers to invade from within, split the country into diametrically opposed parties to demoralize them. It's almost like there was a handbook or two guiding this along....