At least 150 residents in San Francisco’s Marina District have hired private security as crimes in the area have caused significant concerns among community members.
“We don’t feel safe in our neighborhood,” Marina resident Katie Lyons told CBS SF. “And we have an alarm, we have cameras on our property, but we want the extra security of having someone have eyes on our place.”
She informed the outlet that frequent car break-ins and home burglaries prompted her to hire private security, CBS SF reported. Lyons and other residents have hired Patrol Special Officer Alan Byard to keep tabs on the neighborhood. Patrol special officers such as Byard are overseen by the police commission, according to the outlet.
“It’s a nice area down here, people are afraid of what’s been going on,” Byard told CBS SF. “They want a safe place to raise their kids. In the last year, I’ve had 10 of my clients move out of the city.”
Since the advent of the pandemic, Byard says his clientele in the Marina area rose from 70 to 150, according to CBS SF. The patrol special officer says that car break-ins are one of the significant issues along with homeless individuals sleeping on residents’ doorsteps, according to CBS SF.
Burglaries have jumped significantly throughout San Francisco since the pre-pandemic days of 2019. According to the San Francisco Police Department’s Crime Dashboard records, from January 1, 2019 – October 17, 2019, San Francisco saw 3,955 burglaries. Over the same time period in 2021, the city saw 5,800 burglaries. The police department reports 5,864 burglaries over the same period in 2020.
Lyons says that she has to take special precautions when traveling in her community. “Especially at night, I don’t walk with a purse, I’ll drive, or I’ll take an Uber, and it’s beginning to become a daytime problem too,” she told CBS SF.
Australian singer Clinton Kane says he was held at gunpoint on October 15 in the Marina area of San Francisco after witnessing his car was being broken into, according to CBS SF.
“We kind of heard glass shatter, and we looked over and we kind of knew it was our car already,” Kane told the outlet. “We basically, three of us, two of my mates went over to the car, and as soon as we tried stopping them, they pulled out guns on us, all three of them, and then we ended up on the floor with our hands raised.”
The singer says that thieves took off with $30,000 worth of camera equipment, according to the outlet.
On October 19, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a $100,000 reward on information regarding rampant auto burglaries. While she was speaking a car was broken into just blocks away which belonged to a couple visiting from Seattle, Washington, according to Fox News.
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PAUL BOIS
13 Oct 2021 0
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The ongoing shoplifting surge has forced Walgreens to close five more San Francisco stores as local law enforcement continues to do next to nothing to curtail the problem.
In a statement to SF Gate , Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso confirmed “organized retail crime” has strangled San Francisco stores.
“Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,” Caruso said. “Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average.”
“During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment,” he added.
Asha Safai, San Francisco Board of Supervisor for District 11 admitted to feeling “devastated” over the closure a Walgreens store that has “been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades.”
“I am completely devastated by this news – this Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades. This closure will significantly impact this community,” he tweeted.
Safai told SFGate that the shoplifting had crippled the store’s bottom-line and endangered the staff and customers to an unhealthy degree.
“This is a sad day for San Francisco,” Safai said. “We can’t continue to let these anchor institutions close that so many people rely on.”
Shoplifting has skyrocketed in San Francisco recently, likely a result of Proposition 47, which dictates stealing would not be a felony in California if the item stolen did not exceed $950.
The damage has been felt across a range of business outlets.
In May of this year, The San Francisco News described the situation as being “out of control,” noting that 17 Walgreens have had to close in the past five years due to rampant shoplifting in the city.
17 Walgreen locations in San Francisco have closed their doors within the last five years according to a report from the SF Chronicle. Ten of these closures transpired from 2019 to this year with the last Walgreens store to close its door as of this writing, back on March 17. The cause of the closures is due to rampant shoplifting and looting that has transpired at Walgreen locations in the city believed to be perpetuated by an organized crime ring.
On Thursday, May 13 a hearing was held by the Board of Supervisors with retailers, the SFPD, the district attorney’s office, and probation departments. Brendan Dugan, director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations, believes that San Francisco is at the center of organized retail crime. He brought up a state bust in the Bay Area from last year in which $8 million in stolen merchandise was confiscated from five suspects. The merchandise came from CVS, Target and Walgreens stores from all across San Francisco.
The lack of enforcement made shoplifters so nonchalant and casual they would often steal in broad daylight while awestruck customers documented the crime on their iPhones, allowing for some viral internet moments.
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