This is the San Francisco the liberal wanted and are proud of.
Theft like this has become so rampant in the city, Walgreens has already closed 17-stores in the city you can see why.
The video above was shot on a cell phone by KGO-TV Reporter Lyanne Melendez who says in the past year and a half she’s witnessed three of these out-in-the-open shoplifting sprees at different Walgreens throughout the city.
She says, “at what point do we say enough is enough, we want our city back.”
Here's her full report on the incident:
Back in 2014, Proposition 47 reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen good were worth less than $950.
The move has apparently emboldened the thieves.
At a board of supervisors hearing last month, representatives from Walgreens said that thefts at its stores in San Francisco had made business untenable.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported in May (emphasis added):
“The cost of business and shoplifting led Walgreens to shut 17 locations in San Francisco in the past five years — an “unpopular and difficult decision,” Jason Cunningham, regional vice president for pharmacy and retail operations in California and Hawaii, said at the hearing. The company still has 53 stores in the city.
Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average for stores elsewhere in the country, and the chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere, Cunningham said.”
At CVS, 42% of losses in the Bay Area came from 12 stores in San Francisco, which are only 8% of the market share, Brendan Dugan, director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations, said at the hearing.”
Ahsha Safaí, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, tells the NY Times that stolen good are sold at sidewalk theft markets where even steaks, bicycles and other goods are fenced.
Safaí said he had recently stopped to inspect one of these markets and saw “half of Walgreens was on the sidewalk. I’m not kidding. I was blown away. I’ve never seen anything like it in this city.”
This is the liberal utopia the left wanted.