ABC lastly found rampant burglaries plaguing liberal cities like San Francisco, on Monday’s Good Morning America. However ABC wouldn’t point out the town’s radically lax insurance policies that encourage crime and even appeared to counsel these thefts have been associated to the vacation season.
GMA co-anchor T.J. Holmes led into the report sounding stunned by the information. “Now let’s flip to the flash mob robberies. A number of well-liked shops, being ambushed throughout the nation. Rushed and looted by mobs of individuals and all this as the vacation purchasing season is choosing up,” he famous. Holmes gave the impression to be proposing this could possibly be associated to Christmas purchasing. However simply because ABC is lastly now reporting on it, doesn’t imply that is new. These brazen robberies have been happening for months.
Reporter Kaylee Hartung at the least famous this newest incident wasn’t novel. “Extra retailers are actually taking motion after this sequence of actually brazen smash and grabs. Thieves are getting into shops in any respect hours of the day, and a few are making off with as much as 1,000,000 {dollars} in items.” She reported how the robbers have been focusing on excessive finish retail shops like Nordstrom in addition to pharmacies like Walgreens.
Eighty thieves working right into a Nordstrom, stealing items and smashing cabinets. Officers stopping one automobile, arresting a person and a girl, after which a 3rd suspect was caught on foot. A day earlier, additionally in San Francisco, greater than $1 million in merchandise was stolen after thieves broke into a number of shops that day. Walgreens is already closing a number of San Francisco shops after movies of brazen shoplifters went viral together with video showing to point out a person using his bike out of a retailer with a bag filled with stolen gadgets…
Hartung additionally famous how criminals stole over $120,000 value of handbags in Chicago, this week, with out mentioning this occurred only a few weeks in the past as nicely.
However ABC refused guilty the crime surge on the town’s progressive management or controversial insurance policies pushed by the left like Prop 47, which mainly decriminalizes theft as much as $950.
The highest legislation enforcement official within the metropolis is a socialist and son of lefty terrorist cop-killers. District Lawyer Chesa Boudin has served since January 2020 and ran on being comfortable on crime. In 2020, burglaries rose 50 % and auto theft rose 22 % within the metropolis whereas each have been down nationwide, based on the New York Publish. CNN reported that within the Central District, larceny and theft is up 88 % from final yr and total crime up practically 52 %. Boudin truly defended shoplifters. However the native and nationwide media has given Boudin a go. The San Francisco Chronicle even requested readers not too long ago if they need to simply “tolerate” the rampant burglaries and residential invasions fairly than incarcerating the criminals. That doesn’t appear to be working for residents nevertheless, as Boudin is dealing with a recall election like Governor Gavin Newsom did not too long ago. Even his progressive supporters have deserted him for being unwilling to “successfully prosecute crime, in any vogue.” But it surely’s not simply Boudin.
In July, Mayor London Breed introduced she was defunding the police division to place that cash into social justice applications as an alternative. And in September, the town introduced it plans to pay criminals each month to not shoot individuals. With genius concepts like these, is it any marvel San Francisco is having issues with rising crime?
However on Fox Information this morning, radio host and former gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder responded, blaming the management.
He instructed Fox and Mates host Steve Doocy that anti-police insurance policies and comfortable on crime insurance policies had made the “good storm” for this crime wave:
Nicely, Steve, it is an ideal storm. It is one of many causes I ran for governor. Beneath this governor, some 18,000 convicted felons have been launched early due to covid. You’ve a bunch of D.A.s that have been supported by George Soros. One in every of whom is a D.A. in Contra Costa county the place Walnut Creek is. She’s a comfortable on crime, cashless bail, believes in decriminalization. Believes systemically racist judicial system is prosecuting too many black and brown individuals. You’ve D.A.s like that in San Francisco. You’ve D.A.s like that in Los Angeles. You’ve a proposition that enables individuals to steal as much as 950 bucks. Not only a day however per retailer and solely be accused of committing a misdemeanor.
So you’ve gotten this complete anti-police enterprise about systemic racism. Cops are pulling again. More durable to recruit individuals as a result of cops are retiring early. Morale is unhealthy. Cannot recruit new cops. Add all that up. Crime goes up….
It appears apparent {that a} spike in crime and brazen burglaries ought to warrant consideration and counsel a trigger, however the community thinks that their local weather change agenda is a extra urgent difficulty. It’s so unimportant to the networks that they skipped California’s longtime Senator Barbara Boxer being assaulted and robbed final July.
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Good Morning America
11/22/21
TJ HOLMES: Now let’s flip to the flash mob robberies. A number of well-liked shops being ambushed throughout the nation. Rushed and looted by mobs of individuals and all this as the vacation purchasing season is choosing up. Our Kaylee Hartung is monitoring this for us. Kaylee, good morning to you.
KAYLEE HARTUNG: Hey, good morning, T.J.
Extra retailers are actually taking motion after this sequence of actually brazen smash and grabs. Thieves are getting into shops in any respect hours of the day, and a few are making off with as much as 1,000,000 {dollars} in items.
The newest theft on Saturday in San Francisco. 80 thieves working right into a Nordstrom, stealing items and smashing cabinets. Officers stopping one automobile, arresting a person and a girl, after which a 3rd suspect was caught on foot.
A day earlier, additionally in San Francisco, greater than $1 million in merchandise was stolen after thieves broke into a number of shops that day. Walgreens is already closing a number of San Francisco shops after movies of brazen shoplifters went viral together with video showing to point out a person using his bike out of a retailer with a bag filled with stolen gadgets, and the Chicago space has additionally been hit laborious. Simply final week, 14 suspects bumped into this Louis Vuitton retailer grabbing $120,000 in purses and different gadgets earlier than fleeing in getaway automobiles, and police say in that case, the shop’s safety guard was on a break. George?