Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that stores will remain open and serve the public
IF they can make money doing so. Failure to protect private property means less private property. Less investment means fewer jobs. Pretty basic stuff that most people recognize at a fundamental level. Question is whether virtue signaling to peers is more important. In Portland, SF and Seattle it clearly is. SF has 6 million of empty office space as a result of blue state politics. Nothing is going to be built in huge swaths of these cities.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/amp/Rampant-shoplifting-leads-to-another-Walgreens-15654730.phpRampant shoplifting leads to another Walgreens closing in S.F.
After months of seeing its shelves repeatedly cleaned out by brazen shoplifters, the Walgreens at Van Ness and Eddy in San Francisco is getting ready to close.
“The last day is Nov. 11,” Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso said.
The drugstore, which serves many older people who live in the Opera Plaza area, is the seventh Walgreens to close in the city since 2019.
“All of us knew it was coming. Whenever we go in there, they always have problems with shoplifters, ” said longtime customer Sebastian Luke, who lives a block away and is a frequent customer who has been posting photos of the thefts for months. The other day, Luke photographed a man casually clearing a couple of shelves and placing the goods into a backpack.
“I feel sorry for the clerks, they are regularly being verbally assaulted,” Luke said. “The clerks say there is nothing they can do. They say Walgreens’ policy is to not get involved. They don’t want anyone getting injured or getting sued, so the guys just keep coming in and taking whatever they want.”
For security reasons, Walgreens declined to provide details on their security policies, but Caruso did say that “the safety of our team members and customers is our top concern.”
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"I refuse to work for this socialist city council and their political agenda. This agenda sacrifices the health and well-being of the officers and ultimately will destroy the fabric of this once fine city,” explained an outgoing patrol sergeant who had decided to retire after more than two decades with SPD, according to the report.
https://foxnews.com/us/seattle-police-department-retire-resign-political-agenda
People are moving out of the city and many of the businesses that had large office foot prints in SF like Twitter and LinkedIn and Uber are never returning to anything near the scale they once had. My company had four floors of a South of Market high-rise, we're probably going to keep two of those floors after our current lease expires.
Every time I go through that mid-Market, Civic Center area or around Court of Appeals, and Federal building South of Market I think it can't get any worse than this. and then it does. Junkies shooting up and passed out on the side walk with a needle still sticking out of his arm, surrounded my human shit and piss right outside of State and Federal courthouses. Tents and garbage everywhere. It's like I'm no longer in an American city.
In defense of NYC becoming a shit hole as well - the last time it was uninhabitable, that begat the porn industry....which is nice.
"I refuse to work for this socialist city council and their political agenda. This agenda sacrifices the health and well-being of the officers and ultimately will destroy the fabric of this once fine city,” explained an outgoing patrol sergeant who had decided to retire after more than two decades with SPD, according to the report.
https://foxnews.com/us/seattle-police-department-retire-resign-political-agenda