San Fran patrol special officer rips Pelosi's inaction over BLACK crime surge: She doesn't care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SewBXWKj2g
BLACK Suspects Rob Woman Returning To Hancock Park Home With Her Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4sHPXEZC7E
San Jose Police Arrest 6 BLACKS Suspected Members of ‘Prolific’ Smash-and-
Grab Jewelry Store Robbery Crew
The greatest opportunity for organized crime in the US since Prohibition
The defund the police movement presents organized crime with perhaps their greatest opportunity for expansion since alcohol prohibition in the 1920s and early 1930s. The increased crime in general and large-scale, and often organized, retail thefts in particular in large U.S. cities provide this opportunity. Many have claimed that the profits from prohibition allowed organized crime to gain a foothold and become established in many American cities, and it may be happening again.
The large-scale shoplifting and the do-nothing-about-it prosecutors are creating yet another opening for organized crime. Despite what some apparently think, people, including store owners, do not sit idly by forever and let their property be stolen, just because legislatures or city councils or police or prosecutors don't act. People will eventually act privately to protect themselves and their property. Not everyone can or is in a position to protect his property by arming up himself.
On the surface, it is pretty easy to see that stores can lock down more of the merchandise, as is already happening in many places. Over time, some large retail chains can move out of cities or parts of cities, as is already starting to happen at least in San Francisco.
But the people in the neighborhoods such stores leave still need to buy toothpaste. So small individually owned stores are very likely to move into these areas.
Once the small family-owned stores move in, a guy is likely to show up who promises them that their store will not have mass shoplifting or looting attacks — for a fee, of course. This may happen before they are ever looted. It may happen after they have had a mass shoplifting episode. It may happen after an event where the proprietor or family members tried successfully or unsuccessfully to defend the store.
The prior corporate ownership probably would have passed on such an offer because of the corporate image hit they would have taken if it became generally known they were paying people who use violence to deter mass shoplifting. The new likely sole proprietor or family ownership is probably more likely to sooner or later pay for protection.
Now, a market in protecting property is in principle not a terrible idea. An at least somewhat competitive legitimate market for security guards already exists. The problem in the case of the breakdown in law in major cities is that when organized crime fills the vacuum, they will likely use force to make themselves a monopoly in the market for protection. Further, they are reputed to not really give their customers a choice of whether to pay or not. As bad as that, they are reputed to mete out punishments that society as a whole might not think are appropriate for the crimes like shoplifting, even if it is an organized shoplifting ring, as we have seen happening in cities around the country.
Alas, this is another example of our progressives not thinking very progressively. They adopt a static mindset that the poor were wronged, these mass shoplifting or looting events are done by the poor, and so we should not punish them much or at all without thinking of where that path will lead. After all, the poor need the goods. It does not matter if, as is likely, the organized shoplifting gangs are not made up of the poor. The end of this path is stronger organized crime in big cities and potentially decidedly tougher penalties to those who steal than society thinks are appropriate.
James L. Swofford is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Real Estate at the University of South Alabama.
The facts that have emerged demonstrate that Black Lives Matter is largely a creation of the corporate media and the Democratic Party, not a genuine expression of insurgent popular opposition to the pervasive brutality and social inequality of American society. The revelations illustrate the venal and privileged social layers whose interests are expressed by the elevation of race, rather than class, as the essential dividing line in society.
BLACK MAN IS 15xs TO 30xs TIMES MORE LIKELY TO PERPETRATE VIOLENCE!
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WATTERS ON FRANK R JAMES' STAGGERING RACISM
Watters: How was this guy not on the FBI's radar?
NY’s BLM Lt. Gov Who Backed Police Defunding Busted for Bribery
“Brian has already been an important leader in the Black Lives Matter movement."
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Sen. Brian Benjamin wanted to defund the NYPD, but he should have fought to defund the FBI because it was the feds that busted the “progressive politician” on bribery charges.
“Last year we made historic strides towards ending mass incarceration with major reforms," Sen. Benjamin had boasted when he was in the legislature. “But there is still more work to do.”
Benjamin’s current work will be avoiding incarceration on five bribery charges.
The busted radical had fought to end bail, turning arrests into a revolving door, close down the Rikers Island prison, limit police enforcement options, and protect parole violators.
While the leftist crook has claimed that there is a school-to-prison pipeline, the real pipeline is the politics-to-prison pipeline in Albany. Governor Spitzer was forced out in a prostitution scandal, his Lt. Governor, David Paterson, was pushed to the door in a sex scandal, and his successor, Andrew Cuomo, well you may have heard that story.
No sooner did Cuomo’s Lt. Gov, Kathy Hochul step into his shoes, then she decided to pick Benjamin, a prog with impeccable police-hating credentials to stay on the right side of the Left.
Now, Hochul, who courted the pro-crime vote, is stuck with a criminal on her ticket.
"I'm going to name someone that I believe the state will be familiar with and very proud of," Hochul had said, announcing Benjamin as her pick for her old job after Cuomo stepped down.
There’s a lot to be proud of. Benjamin has set a new state record of being on the job for only 8 months before having to resign to, in his own words, "focus his energies on explaining in court why his actions were laudable-- not criminal."
Also, like Cuomo, Spitzer and Weiner, Benjamin "looks forward to when this case is finished so he can rededicate himself to public service."
At the rate New York Dems are going, his replacement will have also been indicted by then freeing up a spot for Benjamin to just go right back to his old job of helping criminals.
Asked by reporters now about Benjamin's arrest, Hochul piously scolded, “Let’s focus on the fact that there are people in a hospital right now fighting for their lives.”
And some of those people were even shot because of her opposition to bringing back bail.
You can understand why Hochul and the Dem Albany establishment oppose bringing back bail for criminals or enforcing the law. The only people who support criminals… are criminals.
The New York Dem campaign slogan might as well be, "Vote for Us, Until We're Indicted."
Cuomo began his career as Attorney General of New York. His predecessor was Eliot Spitzer, his successor, Eric Schneiderman was forced to resign after multiple women accused him of choking and assaulting them. And that’s without delving into the conflicts of interest.
And now Hochul will be forced to run for the top spot with Benjamin’s name right after hers.
“I have utmost confidence in my lieutenant governor,” Gov. Hochul told reporters on Thursday.
On Tuesday, her confidence may have waned after Benjamin turned himself in to face justice.
Why did Hochul pick Benjamin? Let’s look at his credentials. In his failed bid for State Comptroller, the Harlem politician ran on a platform of defunding the police.
"I support the movement to defund the police," he had declared. After a wave of shootings, the indicted pol falsely claimed that, “more police don’t lead to more community safety”.
Benjamin's anti-police crusade was backed by former Women's March leader Tamika Mallory who claimed that, “Brian has already been an important leader in the Black Lives Matter movement."
The politician in turn presented an official state proclamation honoring the Farrakhan supporter while hailing Mallory as a “freedom fighter like the ones we read about in the history books”.
When Benjamin helped to bring a Black Lives Matter mural to Harlem, Al Sharpton was there. He was endorsed by Calvin Butts and the rest of the race-baiting royalty at the heart of city politics. By embracing him, Hochul hoped to get the support of Sharpton and the gang.
But it’s not as if the charges could have possibly come as a surprise to anyone with a pulse.
There have been lawsuits, ethics charges, and allegations around him ever since Benjamin won a 4% turnout election that took him to the State Senate and then an appointment as Lt. Gov, a position he was as qualified to hold as Hochul, his former boss, or a small ball of earwax.
Many of those scandals involved Benjamin's relationship with Harlem real estate developers and finance people whom he berated in press releases, but cozied up to and profited from.
“I want to thank the entire village of Harlem who helped create this young man who’s going to help us lead the state into better days and prosperity,” Hochul said when picking Benjamin.
Harlem hasn’t been a village since the 17th century.
And the last Harlem politician to become Lt. Governor was David Paterson who had boasted, "The only way I'm not going to be governor next year is at the ballot box and the only way I'll be leaving office before is in a box" before he had to leave office anyway. Unboxed.
Now Benjamin has made everyone proud by, among other things, accepting a $250 campaign donation from a 2-year-old. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a child to write a $250 check to the progressive enabler of criminals who is now allegedly a criminal.
And the pro-crime movement once again loses one of its own to crime on the perpetrating end.
That’s nothing new for New York politicians who couldn’t be left alone in a room with a locked safe or a baby with a lollipop without making off with the safe’s contents and the lollipop.
But as New Yorkers wrestle with an unprecedented crime wave brought on by the dismantling of the criminal justice system by police defunders like Benjamin who worked to eliminate bail, shut down prisons, and set criminals loose, this case is a reminder of why they love criminals.
The Black Lives Matter movement and the Left are thick as thieves because they are thieves.
Fighting for the rights of criminals was never really about race, it was about the entitlement of the sorts of people who lie, steal, and kill their way to the top and then want to help their own.
In the wake of escalating violent attacks due to Democrat pro-crime policies, like eliminating bail, Hochul and Benjamin co-wrote an op-ed titled, "Don’t Blame Bail Reform; Do Improve It".
Since Benjamin’s arrest, there has been no word on bail for the police defunder.
When Governor Hochul’s turn comes, maybe she’ll be luckier.
San Jose Police Arrest 6 BLACKS Suspected Members of ‘Prolific’ Smash-and-
Grab Jewelry Store Robbery Crew
BLACKS = THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD
Shocking video captures BLACK woman startling shoppers in Venice with pickaxe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8SPtmhLX
BLACK Man violently strikes a small child at a Walgreens in Miami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdJtYKdnYlk
Two BLACK men arrested, two detained in chop shop takedown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5fj1zm29dY
BLACKS DRAG WOMAN OUT OF CAR
Jenkintown Police Chief Credits Tips, Work by Detectives For Finding Two Suspects In Road Rage Assau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuoPzt0KChs
A Chicago man shot and killed the mother of his children while on bond for being a felon in possession of a weapon in April and then fled to Texas, prosecutors said Tuesday. The murder of Jessica Johnson, 30, came just a few months after Edward Roscoe, 29, allegedly dropped their 4-month-old daughter, killing her.
THE REALITY OF THE STAGGERING EPIDEMIC BLACK CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN AMERICA!
BLACKS ARE 15xs to 30xs MORE LIKELY TO PERPETRATE VIOLENCE THAN WHITES.
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites
Blacks are also overrepresented among perpetrators of hate crimes—by 50 percent—according to the most recent Justice Department data from 2017; whites are underrepresented by 24 percent. This is particularly true for anti-gay and anti-Semitic hate crimes.
Police: 3 BLACK Suspects Attacking Jewish Children As Young As 3 In Brooklyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGpYM78c36I
Columbia University Student Davide Giri Stabbed To Death Near Morningside Park; Suspected Gang Membe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff-mymRrpsw
This is happening all over the country: Watters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8HcukWuw_Y
Florida law enforcement targets BLACK smash-and-grab thefts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrQaRgunss&t=10s
llinois authorities recover millions worth of stolen goods connected to organized retail theft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9bUrxDMDv0
Jack London Square Residents Frustrated Over Rampant Car Break-Ins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1jRv59x40c
Police looking for burglar who slithered across floor at Riverside hair salon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtk7kXtJkEU
Video shows armed robbery in the Fairfax District
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZf4WA-rG0I
NAME A SINGLE THING THE BANKSTER REGIME OF GAMER LAWYER BARACK
OBAMA, LAWYER JOE BIDEN AND LAWYER ERIC HOLDER DID FOR
BLACKS DURING THE 8 YEARS THEY WERE SURRENDERING OUR BORDERS TO
MEXICO!
The WORST Democrat Cities in the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RgqngPUnw
Every year in America, some 500 whites are murdered by black assailants, more than twice as many as blacks killed by whites. The media need to report all of these cases fairly and without bias so as to counter the false reporting and misplaced emphasis in the national press. All victims, of whatever race, deserve justice because all human life is precious. The reporting of violence should not be based on race — it should be proportionate to the crime, without regard to the race of the perpetrator or the victim. Jeffrey Folks
Smash-and-Grab BLACK Thieves Hit San Jose Eastridge Mall Jewelry Store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVH7rS40tLo
Police: Harlem Man Sprayed With Unknown Substance, Struck With Stick During BLACK Assault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1yMO1ib10
14 BLACK suspects arrested in LA smash-and-grab robberies | ABC7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY6rfAUmEe8
FBI Offers Reward For Justin Smith, Suspected Of Killing Pregnant Girlfriend Dianna Brice In Philade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmzzv-VE7kA
More details revealed after DNA leads to arrest in cold-case murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhKjXJqjg7o
AT THIS TIME, THERE MAY BE NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN BLACK VIOENCE AND LOOTING!
WILL BLACK LIVES LOOT FINISH OFF RETAIL STORES?
A Holiday Crisis is Imminent as Retailers Face Bankruptcy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLH4Jd_7a0
2 BLACK men wanted in connection with CTA Red Line robbery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aYrc61gIGw
BLACK CAR THEFT
'Shocks the conscience': Chicago police arrested 11-year-old BLACK BOY for carjacking, Brown says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEnkK9yCfc
Watson Video: The Truth About the Christmas Parade Killer
The real story is magically disappearing.
Tue Nov 30, 2021
Video commentator Paul Joseph Watson gets to the truth behind the media disinformation surrounding the horrific act of vehicular terrorism by a black supremacist who intentionally ran down dozens of parade-goers recently in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Check out the short video below:
REALITY: BLACKS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN THE WORLD!
Avant murder suspect arrested in Hollywood Hills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKQIUM5gr64
BLACK Suspects Rob Woman Returning To Hancock Park Home With Her Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4sHPXEZC7E
Suspect arrested in killing of Jacqueline Avant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJKpsa4IgJE
Suspect in custody in shooting death of Jacqueline Avant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5lRjUhDClY
BLACK Woman Extradited To Face Charges For Execution-Style Murder Of Brooklyn Mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13XRRxC4NiA
BLACK Woman accused of pushing man off bus to his death faces new charge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuklP_uoEY
Thieves Ransack Louis Vuitton Store in San Francisco Union Square
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ZGM6kXi9A
Man accused of stabbing his father 46 times is now under arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNUqfXF8sg
BLACK MAN STABS VICTIM IN NECK
‘Gruesome' Random Stabbing Outside WeHo Whole Foods Leaves Man Bleeding on Sidewalk
Soros Prosecutors Let BLACK Sex-Offender CVS Burglar Free
Virginia Commonwealth's attorneys frequently let criminals walk
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/soros-prosecutors-let-sex-offender-cvs-burglar-free/
Man Attacked Inside Apartment During Bushwick Robbery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAdUZ2VTRxI
BLACK Suspects will face ethnic intimidation charges in SEPTA attack: Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mQNkLSPnq4
VIDEO
Asian students attacked by group of BLACK teens on SEPTA train in Philadelphia, suspects to face charges
https://news.yahoo.com/asian-students-attacked-group-teens-210608683.html
Report: Four BLACK Teens Allegedly Murdered 60-Year-Old in Dallas Parking Lot
Records said four capital murder suspects arrested for Tuesday’s murder of a man at a Costco parking lot in Dallas are young people, according to Fox 4.
BLACK Suspect(s) wanted in a series of aggravated robberies in Houston at the 9700 block of S. Post Oak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf14OIeDxoA
Police: Deliveryman shoots armed suspects trying to rob him, killing one
https://6abc.com/shooting-attempted-robbery-philadelphia-crime-city/11256875/
Police say while the armed suspects searched the victims car, he managed to pull out his gun and shoot the would-be robbers.
Police: 2 BLACK men arrested for shooting of armored car guards, killing accomplices short time later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LepMCucS41s
BLACK Teen arrested for fatally shooting mother who was reading Bible to daughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZV7FuQkfg
Rapper Young dolph shot and killed by BLACKS in his hometown 2021 (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOqcLQgy4A
Memphis police chief addresses Young Dolph shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiD8O72bnQQ
Manhattan BLACK Gang Shootout Caught on Camera; 3 Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7zNAnfFWM
BLACK Suspect sought in arson that killed 2 in Nicetown: Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZx6x5dSQDA
Rapper Young dolph shot and killed by BLACKS in his hometown 2021 (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOqcLQgy4A
Memphis police chief addresses Young Dolph shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiD8O72bnQQ
Manhattan BLACK Gang Shootout Caught on Camera; 3 Hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7zNAnfFWM
BLACK Suspect sought in arson that killed 2 in Nicetown: Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZx6x5dSQDA
LAPD investigating 'follow-home' BLACK robberies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG7oRRpaSdY
Caught On Video: 70-Year-Old Woman's Purse Stolen At Brooklyn Store by BLACKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK5gsjxSSKU
Miami Beach business owners say videos BLACK show crime is out of control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiU1CHOwGM
BLACK Woman Extradited To Face Charges For Execution-Style Murder Of Brooklyn Mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13XRRxC4NiA
I-Team: BLACK Woman accused of pushing man off bus to his death faces new charge
II-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuklP_uoEY
BLACK Thieves Ransack Louis Vuitton Store in San Francisco Union Square
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ZGM6kXi9A
BLACK Man accused of stabbing his father 46 times is now under arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNUqfXF8sg
BLACK ASSAULT
4 dead, including 2 former BLACK police officers on the run, following traffic stop
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/former-police-officers-wanted-carjacking-172500157.html
Four people were pronounced dead following an attempted traffic stop in Maryland, as a manhunt was underway in the state for two former police officers who were considered armed and dangerous. On Thursday night, police confirmed two of the deceased were the former officers.
Three passengers were pronounced dead at the scene in Smithsburg late Thursday afternoon, including a female driver, an adult man and one child, according to Maryland State Police.
A fourth passenger, another child, was medevacked to a local hospital and pronounced dead, police said.
BLACK Mother In Custody In 1986 Cold Case Of ‘Baby John’ Found Dead In Dumpster In Greenwich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznuuUTMVQ8
BLACK Ex-NFL player Zac Stacy arrested after alleged brutal attack of woman in Florida, jail records show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZM-Nsvxhnc
4 BLACK Teens Injured In Newburgh Shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tqq7BqPHlg
BLACKS LOOTING - Aggravated robbery at a pharmacy located near Stella Link and S. Braeswood Blvd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xScXWNKVY
WATCH | Temple PD looking for BLACK suspects in wild shootout caught on camera
https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/5440581937224467578
Insane: BLACK Hammer-wielding thieves invade Concord jewelry store, wiping store clean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY0QR0zJ6EE
BLACK LIVES MURDER AND LOOT AND HAVE FOR A VERY LONG TIME!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/black-terrorism-in-america-murder-loot.html
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that
the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as
well as other violent crimes are as is as much as
15–30 times more than whites
In reality, BLM is the very embodiment of Marxism, anti-Semitism, and racism—a trifecta of wickedness capable of destroying any society. John Perazzo
Blacks are also overrepresented among perpetrators of hate crimes—by 50 percent—according to the most recent Justice Department data from 2017; whites are underrepresented by 24 percent. This is particularly true for anti-gay and anti-Semitic hate crimes.
BLACK LIVES MATTER CO-FOUNDER PURCHASES $1.4 MILLION HOME IN 0.4% BLACK COMMUNITY
BLACK RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-ASIAN, HOMOPHOBIC, VIOLENCE AND IGNORANCE AS DISPLAYED BY THIS CLOWN CHAPPELLE
Comedian Dave Chappelle’s The Closer: A racist tirade disguised as stand-up comedy
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-one-more-racist-black.html
Blacks are also overrepresented among perpetrators of hate crimes—by 50 percent—according to the most recent Justice Department data from 2017; whites are underrepresented by 24 percent. This is particularly true for anti-gay and anti-Semitic hate crimes.
THE DEPRAVED GHETTO BLACK CULTURE IN AMERICA - Is it the world’s most violent subculture?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/10/ghetto-black-violence-in-america-dr.html
Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites
So, we have local black gang associates posting terror threats on social media -- threats of murder, by burning, directed at the women and children family members of white police employees -- immediately before the murder, by burning, of the white teenage daughter of a local police department employee. Plus, the killing took place only minutes after the victim was seen on video at the same location as the husband or boyfriend of the person who posted the threats, as he was filling a handheld can with gasoline.
BLACK HATE, RACISM AND VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/black-lives-matters-threat-of-violence.html
Meanwhile BLM has demonstrated yet again that it's a violent hate group that engages in political terrorism. And yet our political class will insist that it's the new civil rights movement which is entirely "above politics" and may not be criticized.
Rutgers U. Faculty Groups Support BLACK Prof Who Said White People Are ‘Villains’ that Must Be ‘Taken Out’
Travis Scott has repeatedly given a snarling middle finger to the safety of his fans and this deadly, predictable disaster is a direct result of his arrogant and shameful recklessness
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/travis-scott-reminds-america-of-joke-of.html
Would-be BLACK thief fatally shot by Lakeview homeowner in shootout, police say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeaeO3W7fd8
Raleigh BLACK man released on bond after crashing car related to 14 armed robberies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQTphSd5mXE
Two teens shot at by classmate’s BLACK mother, police say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiJ04x-4Qn4
BLACK Angelo Ford Charged With First-Degree Murder For His Role In Fanta Billity's Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHvspqjXWgA
BLACK VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
THE MURDER, MAYHEM AND LOOTING THAT IS SO MUCH A PART OF THE BLACK SUBCULTURE ACROSS AMERICA
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/08/black-violence-in-america-murder-mayhem.html
2 hurt when BLACK gunman opens fire at close range on crowded Philadelphia street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AR_lpslyZM
BLACK Suspect arrested after throwing Molotov cocktail at Brooklyn deli, slashing man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4diGwxzLKE
BLACK Chicago gun violence: Lightfoot, Brown urge public to speak up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh6EO8KIXeo
BLACK Man shot at MS Dollar General, suspect detained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmovrKr1iE0
Neighbors disturbed after two men found dead in SUV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBoPTBMc4Y4
HOW MUCH OF THE NATIONWIDE SURGE IN VIOLENCE IS PERPETRATED BY BLACKS?
ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ARE BLACKS, AND YET THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIME.
Would-be BLACK thief fatally shot by Lakeview homeowner in shootout, police say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeaeO3W7fd8
NYPD: BLACK Man Sexually Assaulted 13-Year-Old Walking Home From School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul3V_d56-KE
East Cleveland police: 3 BLACKS in custody, more wanted after woman tortured before murder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Q4FSD4dOQ
BLACKS Miramar High School students to be charged for murder as adults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtzOEZ7fgOU
BLACK Robbery suspect shot and killed in Oakland gas station shootout identified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHW7UQFeBFU
Home Invasion Woman hides in bathroom and fires at BLACK burglars through the door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FhxGXVi5o
Shocking video shows brazen BLACK thieves stealing from Ulta Beauty store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCTrcTzFYQ
BLACK VIOLENCE
Man targeted by would-be BLACK robbers turns the table on suspects by opening fire in Fairfax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnN0cGgoPs
BLACK Woman charged after police say she tried to run a mother and her children off the road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9FvjzywOiA
Police say BLACK man stabbed wife, tried to vacuum blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2HvVanq4nw
Teenage girl kidnapped, stabbed by BLACKSand left for dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEfcCWoNEq0
Exclusive: Survivor of Wendy's fast food massacre in Flushing breaks silence after 20 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zte8tyGoV3I
Man chased, shot in the head and killed by BLACK mob in Queens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i4gZDSV14w
Officer dragged by car in attempt to stop burglary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhyVN69ls8E
Mom tells police her son confessed to Memphis shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UNzniXuR3c
Police arrest Memorial Park BLACK rape suspect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CTw00ZoBo
SHOCKING: Philadelphia police release video of deadly drive-by shooting; BLACK gunman still being sought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoNwZowTEnk
RAW: Violent shootout caught on camera at East St. Louis gas station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roQ-ObzbDxU
RAW VIDEO: Wild shootout in Northeast DC captured on home surveillance video | FOX 5 DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3RiJxu-yKU
Surveillance video of Kirkwood home invasion by BLACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SitCOS3YXSU
Killing caught on camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0XvtpkE78
BLACK Intruder shot, killed after kicking in door, charging occupant with a knife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PXJz38_7a8
VIDEO: BLACK Burglary suspected thwarted by gun-toting homeowner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1A9xT9cCA
Mother armed with shotgun scares off BLACK burglar in Miami Gardens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o2eSvS8KPU
Video: Neptune Beach resident shoots at 3 BLACK armed robbers, police say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjWxoHK-H5E
BLACK Woman arrested in Jacksonville in connection with execution-style killing in New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1bRRHVZUg
BLACK Man accused of knocking out woman, spitting on officer in Miami Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HmX9-A4pA
BLACK Mom charged with reckless driving with baby in car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZW1q1IDQC8
BLACK Suspect in deadly shooting had 2020 murder charges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s52_8qIw97Q
BLACK Woman charged with beating, shooting at boyfriend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ7u3S_Shek
Woman killed, man hospitalized in South LA double shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDfgjFdgxY
Former BLACK corrections employee fatally shot boyfriend in Miami Gardens, cops say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOa1sgW-I6g
Surveillance video shows BLACK man stealing coveted puppy from pet store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsqXrzqFD5o
Shooting outside North Miami Beach fast food restaurant under investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwwD7_BAacA
BLACK female suspect appeared to stomp on the woman’s head multiple times.
VIDEO: NYC Woman Beaten, Stomped in Head During Alleged Robbery
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/10/13/video-nyc-woman-beaten-stomped-head-alleged-robbery/
Police have released video of two people’s alleged attack on a woman in Brooklyn last week that resulted in her being taken to the hospital unconscious.
At one point in the video, the BLACK female suspect appeared to stomp on the woman’s head multiple times.
Police told Pix 11 the attack was not random, and they believe it was the result of an earlier encounter between the victim and the female suspect.
BLACK RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-ASIAN, HOMOPHOBIC, VIOLENCE AND IGNORANCE AS DISPLAYED BY THIS CLOWN CHAPPELLE
Comedian BLACK Dave Chappelle’s The Closer: A racist tirade disguised as stand-up comedy
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/dave-chappelle-one-more-racist-black.html
BLACK Thieves crash UHaul into auto parts store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fAr-bP3Ds
Woman who livestreamed her looting spree in Chicago released from prison the same day she arrived to serve her 17-month sentence
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/blacks-and-looting-case-against-taeshia.html
I’d like to be able to say “only in Chicago,” which seems to have become the world capital of street crime, but alas, “criminal justice reform” runs rampant – as do criminals, even those convicted of felonies
BLACK LOOTING IN S.F.
EXCLUSIVE: Two San Francisco Prosecutors Quit, Join Effort to Recall City's DA'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTfK2pRXs0
BIG SPIKE IN BLACK SHOPLIFTING, THIEVES GET MORE BRAZEN, POVERTY DANGER AHEAD WARNING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BMXf2G6h8
Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/black-lives-loot-walgreens-closes-five.html
VIDEO
WATCH: Ulta Beauty Ransacked BY BLACKS During Store Hours in Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/09/28/ulta-beauty-ransacked-during-store-hours-chicago/
11 BLACK Suspects Sought In $100K Handbag Heist At Palo Alto Louis Vuitton Store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIkiCOuQNE
Video shows suspected BLACK thieves sprinting out of California Neiman Marcus with designer handbags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ctqHXAcXM
Brazen BLACK shoplifting video in San Francisco becomes issue in California recall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIcsHh8vso
Brazen, Serial BLACK Shoplifter Appears In Court As DA Vows To Crack Down On Retail Thefts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvnsvVJrdE
Busting an Organized BLACK Shoplifting Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFvtPM2su4
Vicky Nguyen Gets Inside Look At BLACK Retail Theft Rings | TODAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97x6bLB5RhM
San Francisco locals react to rampant BLACK shoplifting, break-ins | Fox News Digital Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6o2MIuMQc
Target Cuts Store Hours in San Francisco Due to BLACK Shoplifting Surge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNjdF0cCuQ
BLACK Group steals $30K from store in seconds | FOX6 News Milwaukee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2pX-VRZXc
Major BLACK Arrest In $1 Million Apple Store Thefts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0SCIkKgu7A
Apple Store BLACK Robbery Suspects Arrested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT9Jc7lB_Zo
Pricey BLACK Heist Lasts 34 Seconds, Ends With $200K Jewelry Stolen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09aI0HAqtBM
BLACK Jewelry heist captured on video at Avenues Mall store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6goU5Fj_b8
BLACK Credit Card Thieves Caught on Tape Using Skimmers | Nightline | ABC
News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAP7sVh4smc
BLACK Man Trapped Inside of Store After Serial Thieving Spree | I Survived a Crime | A&E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLUEQUd6pQ
Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid BLACK Shoplifting Surge
Michael M. Santiago/Getty
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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San Francisco Safeway Cuts Hours Due to Rampant Shoplifting
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A prominent Safeway supermarket in the Castro district of San Francisco is limiting its hours due to rampant shoplifting, the latest example of a retail store closing or limiting its operations in the left-liberal city due to out-of-control petty crime.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:
Shoppers at the Safeway in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood will see a noticeable change to the store: It now closes at 9 p.m. due to what one supervisor described as “out of control” shoplifting.
Once open 24 hours a day, the Safeway store on Market and Church streets now has the earliest closing hours of all the Pleasanton-based supermarket chain’s San Francisco storefronts, most of which stay open until midnight.
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[San Francisco Supervisor Rafael] Mandelman said theft at the Safeway at 2020 Market Street has been “out of control” and recently met with Safeway representatives “to better understand the issues at this store.” He said he also planned to meet with the San Francisco Police Department and the office of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin “to see what is currently being done to deter theft at Safeway, and to figure out a plan to do better.”
Earlier this year, Walgreens closed 17 stores in the city due to shoplifting, which skyrocketed after California voters passed Proposition 47, a ballot initiative aimed at criminal justice reform, which reclassified thefts up to $950 as misdemeanors. As a result, such thefts are rarely prosecuted.
The crime spike began under former district attorney George Gascón, who is now district attorney for Los Angeles County, and has continued under Chesa Boudin, who now faces a likely recall election.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION OF SAN FRANCISCO IS BLACK. THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIMES.
SEVEN WALGREENS HAVE CLOSED DUE TO BLACK LOOTING.
SEE THE VIDEOS BELOW.
San Fran patrol special officer rips Pelosi's inaction over BLACK crime surge: She doesn't care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SewBXWKj2g
Is Stealing Wrong?
Not on the Left.
Thu Nov 4, 2021
To most readers of this column, the question is absurd. The reason is not because the question is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious.
Am I implying that most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong?
Yes, I am.
As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong. Since I always draw a distinction between those on the Left and liberals, let me add that I suspect most liberals think stealing is wrong. But it almost doesn't matter because they vote for people who do not think it is.
One proof is the passage of Proposition 47, a California ballot initiative passed in 2014, under which theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor and rarely prosecuted. As a result, in Democrat-run California cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, retail theft has soared.
Walgreens stores in San Francisco are racking up four times the average amount of theft in Walgreens stores across the country; spending on security guards in San Francisco is 35 times more than the chain's average in other cities. Walgreens has been forced to close 22 stores in the city since 2016.
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle: "The Safeway located in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood ... was a longstanding, 24-hour fixture in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. But as of last week, the store's hours have been cut back to 6 a.m. to 9 p.m ... A Safeway spokesperson (said) that the cutbacks are 'due to an increasing amount of theft at the store.'"
Further proof that the Left doesn't consider theft wrong — at least when committed by a person of color — was an interview broadcast on NPR last year with the author of a book titled "In Defense of Looting." The NPR interviewer threw only softball questions to the author.
In the last election, Los Angeles voters elected San Francisco's previous district attorney, George Gascon, as Los Angeles's district attorney. It was Los Angeles's way of declaring that stealing is not wrong. And it is worth noting that it is not only racial minorities and the poor who make these elections possible; it is also prosperous whites. The Los Angeles DA is a wealthy white, and he was supported by a white billionaire, George Soros.
It is hard to believe that millions of Americans do not deem stealing from stores morally wrong, so let's try to explain how this has come about.
Reason No. 1 is moral relativism. For as long as there has been a Left, it has rejected moral absolutes. As the great British historian, Paul Johnson, pointed out a half-century ago in his magnum opus, "Modern Times," the secular world applied the relativism of the natural sciences to morality.
Reason No. 2 is the reason for reason number one: the collapse of the Judeo-Christian value system and the accompanying abandonment of, and often disdain for, biblical ethics. Biblical morality posits moral absolutes — meaning that stealing is wrong for everyone, certainly people of every color. Yes, one can offer a biblical defense of a starving man stealing food for his starving family. But that is hardly what is happening in San Francisco and other American cities.
Reason No. 3 is Marxist morality. From Marx to the present, Marxism has divided the world not between right and wrong, but between economic classes. Therefore, it is morally acceptable for members of the poorer classes to steal from members of the more affluent classes. This notion has made its way into young people's minds for decades. About 30 years ago, I spoke to students from four Cleveland high schools. I asked them to raise their hand if they would steal something they really wanted from a department store if they were certain they would not get caught. Nearly all the students raised their hands. When I asked some of them to justify their reasoning, they all said the same thing: they wouldn't steal from a mom-and-pop store, but they would steal from a department store. It is OK to steal from "the rich."
Reason No. 4 is leftists' view of nonwhites, especially blacks, a view that conservatives have never shared. Leftists truly believe that blacks are intellectually and morally inferior to whites. The evidence? They do not believe blacks should be held to the same intellectual and moral standards to which leftists hold whites. Leftists do not defend whites who steal, and they hold whites to higher intellectual standards. Leftists do not argue for lowering math standards for whites, only for blacks.
The bottom line is the Left is immoral. That is why it defends stealing.
farewell, san francisco
AUDIO
Farewell, San FrFancisco
10 Blocks podcast
Michael GibsonBrian C. Anderson
May 20, 2020
California
Cities
Economy, finance, and budgets
Michael Gibson joins Brian Anderson to discuss San Francisco’s ongoing struggle with public order and his decision to leave the Bay Area for Los Angeles—the subject of Gibson’s story, “America’s Havana,” in the Spring 2020 issue.
“Even before the current Covid-19 pandemic,” writes Gibson, “San Francisco was a deeply troubled city.” The city ranks first in the nation in a host of property crimes, and its high housing costs make it prohibitively expensive for low- and middle-income families. Even tech companies are now considering relocating their operations; any significant exodus of such businesses would be a serious blow to the city’s economy.
Audio Transcript
Brian Anderson: Welcome back to 10 Blocks. I'm your host Brian Anderson, and joining us on today's show is Michael Gibson. Michael is the co-founder of the 1517 Fund, a venture capital firm, formerly based in San Francisco and now in Los Angeles and we'll get to that in a minute. He's written on technology and innovation for The Atlantic, National Review, Reason, and recently a couple of excellent pieces for City Journal. You can follow him on Twitter @William_Blake. His latest essay, which we released online last week and appears in our Spring 2020 issue is called "America's Havana" and it's about San Francisco's ongoing struggle with public order and other serious urban problems, even before the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Michael, thanks very much for joining us.
Michael Gibson: Happy to be here.
Brian Anderson: Now let me read the very vivid opening paragraph to your story, quote: "On January 8th London Breed, San Francisco's mayor was sworn in for her first full term. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulated her in a tweet saying, 'I look forward to working with you to continue San Francisco's proud tradition of standing as a guiding light for progress across America.' I don't know what definition of progress Pelosi is using, but any candid observer would rate the city that catastrophe. Mayor Breed was inaugurated on the same day that I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles after 10 years working at the cutting edge of science and technology." You then begin your brief tour of the reasons you and others like you are leaving the city starting with public order and hygiene. So could you give a description of how the city was kind of crumbling over the last several years in these areas?
Michael Gibson: For sure. It's hard to remember when I first started noticing these things, but they started off slowly and they picked up, I think for sure some of the issues like homelessness have always been a problem on the West Coast and in cities like LA, even San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, but sometime throughout the 2010s, the teens, it really picked up and, and it started to become very stark. The city scene from a view let's say you're standing on the other side of the Golden Gate bridge and you look at the city, it is just resplendent.
Brian Anderson: It is one of the most beautiful cities in America. It's true.
Michael Gibson: And you're just excited to see what's going on inside. And then you get closer and, and then that's where it hit me one time where I came back down from the Sonoma region. You come down the 101, you shoot through the Robin Williams tunnel and you get that view of the city and it just looks like the future of the world. In this veritable gold rush, in the last tech boom, so much wealth has been created. Silicon Valley became, San Francisco itself became synonymous with Silicon Valley. And so there was a sense in which this was the city of the 2000s, that it was going to be the next Florence or Athens. That it would be a cultural center. But then you pull in to the city with your car and, and yeah, I noticed there's just drug users out in the open. This is not in bad neighborhoods like the Tenderloin district, but even in the, in the main areas of the city where in the financial district. There's human feces all over the place. That increased over the last decade. So anecdotally that stuff started picking up. Then the stories broke in the local newspapers and then whatever counter measures were taken, they failed. And so it just reached a point by the end of the decade where, I know lots of friends were uncomfortable walking around at night. It was not unheard of to have people harass you, yelling at you and coherently and in those kinds of issues. So that was the lower layer. And then, and then you started to wonder about the deeper stuff, like, what are the underlying issues? Lots of conflicts erupted over the last decade. The Google buses started because a lot of their employees wanted to live in the city and then commute down to Mountain View. Likewise with Apple and Facebook. And so they started these commuter buses in these commuter buses would take these employees from the city down the peninsula.
You had protests against these buses. Really strong backlash against the tech community, and the tech community got blamed for this, that somehow they were crowding out the public transportation that they were driving up the rents. And that's when I really started to examine the underlying problems in the city. The tech companies were being scapegoated, but it turned out that you know, there are a lot of regulations and zoning rules that prevent people from building anything new in the whole city. And so you had the same stock of housing, the same, pretty much the same stock of office space and more people trying to get into the city of the future. And that led to a lot of social problems.
Brian Anderson: So everything began to come together in a bad way. In other words, driving you to leave.
Michael Gibson: Yeah, that's right. So it was this weird combination of you had the expensive because of the limited housing.
Brian Anderson: Yeah I want to get back to that in a minute, maybe we could talk a little more detail.
Michael Gibson: But then you also had the appalling, which was this mismanagement of the homelessness situation.
Brian Anderson: And crime is starting to go up there. I'm not sure, post pandemic what it looks like, but the city's got a very significant burglary and theft problem. A lot of shoplifting going on cars getting broken into.
Michael Gibson: Something on average like 60 cars are broken into per day, That's pre-Covid, who knows what it is now. But you know, there are famous stories. Alex Rodriguez, the former Yankee now sportscaster. He was late to a game at the Giants stadium and found a parking space on the street. He stupidly or foolishly left, I don't know, maybe it was like necklace or some kind of jewelry in the car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was broken into and stolen. But yeah, just the sheer number of these sorts of petty crimes, theft, vandalism led to San Francisco becoming the leader in the nation in 2018. 2019, it's still high. We have a mayor, or San Francisco had a mayor, there's a police force, but they did not seem to be willing to enforce lower-level crimes.
Brian Anderson: Yeah. That's quite striking. You'd like to think that the city's political class and voters would recognize this breakdown in order, rise in crime. Yet the brand new district attorney there, Chesa Boudin, campaigned on not prosecuting quality of life infractions. I'm curious, how did he win and what's your sense of him against this backdrop?
Michael Gibson: San Francisco has a history of being progressive and perhaps that's what Pelosi meant when she said it's a beacon of progress. The last Republican mayor was elected in his first term, I believe in 1956. I think he'd won a second term. But you know, ever after that, it's been run by Democrats. So pretty much one-party city for a long time. There are more moderate wings in that party. And there are very far left wing members of that party. And I think Chesa Boudin won due to some of the mechanics of voting in the city for these types of positions where, I forget the exact name of the mechanism, but if votes are split, it'll go to, let's say there are three candidates and two of them are similar to each other, so that they split the vote, that'll open it up to someone who's more radical like Chesa Boudin.
Brian Anderson: And that's kind of what happened here, right?
Michael Gibson: Yeah, so that's how we won. In essence, two opponents who were probably more moderate than he was split the vote. But nevertheless, it's still scary to me at any rate that someone with his resume and his public positions would get elected at all. You know, not enforcing low level quality of life crimes is one thing. He has very ambitious goals on establishing some kind of retributive justice or, sorry, restorative justice program. There was a humorous moment in one of the debates while he was running where and addressing this car, the broken window problem with automobiles and theft. He thought he thought the city should set up a business where if they caught the the thief, then the thief would have to work for some period of time in the window repair program that the city would run.
And it was just seemed like total craziness to me. But I guess it appealed to enough voters that he was able to win. I believe he served as a translator and adviser, I don't know in what exact capacity, but he had a direct relationship with Hugo Chavez, the late dictator. This to me is the kind of relationship that should just raise all sorts of red flags in the media and in the public. And the fact that it didn't, I think speaks to how far radical San Francisco has become. You know, the title of the piece is America's Havana. I chose that because one it's striking to me that Havana is crumbling on the edges but still looks the same as it does since the 1950s even people riding around in cars from the 1950s.
Brian Anderson: All that lovely architecture preserved as if in amber.
Michael Gibson: And in San Francisco, it's not, you don't see things crumbling necessarily to that extent in neighborhoods, But it is striking to me that it looks the same as it does as it did in the 1960s, you can watch a movie like the Steve McQueen classic, "Bullet", with the famous car chase scene as he's riding up and down the hills of San Francisco. And sure enough, if you look at those same locations today, they look the same. So three, four story Victorian townhouses, Bay window apartments, that sort of thing, it's all the same. And that's due to those land-use regulations.
Brian Anderson: Yeah. I wanted to get back to that because you, you listed that as one of the other reasons you've decided to move to Los Angeles. The cost of housing in particular is a huge problem in San Francisco. It's problem in many successful cities these days. But I think nowhere in America is it more of a problem than in San San Fran. I think the medium price for one bedroom you mentioned is the most expensive in the nation. It's about $3,700 a month. That's a median price. A single family home on average will run, you know, well over a million dollars. What's behind the, these astronomical prices? I guess it's really a supply problem as you suggest. And it has something to do with the way the city approaches land-use.
Michael Gibson: Right. It has the strictest land use rules in the nation. Probably the strongest NIMBY lobbyists you can imagine. That goes back for some time. You can look at any election from the 1970s through the eighties and nineties, and people are complaining about new construction, whether it's commercial or, or private residences. So even the main rule is that height requirement. Nothing can outside of something like 78, 79% of the city, you can't build higher than four stories. And then there are all sorts of other problems. The permit process is the highest stakes game of chutes and ladders known to man. There are multiple stages to this process. Multiple committees that you need to obtain approval from. And at any step along the way, after all the money spent and the effort made, you can slip down the slide and end up back in square one. And there are some crazy examples over the years. Some guy, it took him like, I think he started in 1978 to build four units and area of town called Bernal Heights. Spent $2 million and only in the last year was able to gain approval. Those stories are not uncommon. It's a real supply crunch. You limit the number of houses, you keep them the same, but you add more money and you add more people. Well, that's simple economics. The prices are gonna go up.
Brian Anderson: Now we talk a lot on this podcast and, and certainly write about in City Journal, the New York City subway system, which has a lot of problems even before the pandemic. The New York transit system had seen, you know, a real deterioration in performance, delays which have led to overcrowding, homelessness becoming a problem on the subways themselves. Enormous financial woes, again, even before the pandemic. But I don't think in our previous podcasts discussing San Francisco issues that we've really talked much about the Bay Area Rapid Transit System or BART system. Could you talk a little bit about that and how it's performing?
Michael Gibson: Yeah, so one of the interesting things about the Bay Area is that it is so fragmented in terms of its political organization. So when it came time to build a public transportation system, I think it was greatly limited by that fragmentation. So it was originally planned, the BART system was, was going to be a lot like the New York subway system in the way that it helps unify the many boroughs. In the original plans, I think for the BART, there were lines that were supposed to go up North to Marin, across the East Bay into Oakland. And then down South. What happened is that they couldn't get all these different municipalities on board. And so now the BART is pretty much limited to the East side of San Francisco, then it travels under the Bay, into the East Bay, Oakland area. It heads down south on the peninsula, but stops just past SFO.
So it doesn't have a lot of range. It was built in the 1970s. I think some of the engineering choices may have been fine at the time, but now the wear and tear on them started starting to show itself in the last few years. For me, this has been. Around town, it's known as the BART howl or screech. The wheels they made aren't flanged wheels. And so the noise is deafening, especially in certain paths.
Brian Anderson: Metal on metal, it's so true.
Michael Gibson: Yeah. And this has a quality of life consequence where, for instance, the high price of living in San Francisco. I know some people have thought about moving to the East Bay, but it makes the commute even worse because you can't have conversations, you can't listen to podcasts. You have to stop your music as you travel underground. And listen to this howl that seems to be in some sort of deranged contrapuntal noise, because it's like there's a high level shriek and a low-level rattle at the same time. It's quite jarring. I looked into that and, there's some other news stories or blog posts about the construction of those wheels and why they failed to make the right choices. It's pretty interesting. But for me, it became symbolic for this lack of state capacity or governance capacity where the infrastructure, the city itself is not living up to its purpose.
Brian Anderson: Yeah, I'd like to close with a couple of questions. One, you had already decided to relocate before the Covid-19 pandemic, but what's your sense of the attitude among other firms located in San Francisco or more broadly in the Bay Area? Are you hearing other companies thinking along the same lines. And then after answering that question, I'd love to hear about what it's been like moving to Los Angeles, basically simultaneous with a big lockdown in that city as a result of the pandemic. What it been like in LA? So those two questions: are other firms leaving San Francisco or thinking about it, and then what's going on in LA?
Michael Gibson: Well, the quality of life issues and the cost of living had started to affect my work. So we run an early-stage venture capital fund. We make investments in companies at the earliest stage. So often where we are the first money in, it's a few people and some proof of concepts. The Bay Area, Silicon Valley and San Francisco to some degree have always been known for being the hub of innovation and specifically garage startups, right? You think Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Google, they all literally started in garages. Well, if the garage costs a million bucks, you're not gonna be able to have a startup. And it occurred to me that the Grateful Dead also had a house in Haight Ashbury houses. You know, the ones around it on Zillow sell for like 3 million plus now. So you can't have a garage band either. If the garage costs a million bucks. So for my work over the last decade, we just noticed fewer and fewer of the companies that we were investing in were located in the Bay. They were starting elsewhere. So the need for me to live in San Francisco decreased.
There was almost like a little perfect storm for you guys publishing this piece because on the same day that you did on the internet, Twitter announced that it was permanently allowing its employees to work remotely. And Jack Dorsey had mentioned something along these lines, too, hinted at it in a quarterly call with investors last quarter. But yes, the story broke on the same day. And so I think there's a lot of conversations happening now about the degree to which companies will remain remote or you know, maybe it's not 50%. Maybe it's 25, but it's certainly not going to be zero. So I think we're going to start to see an exodus out of San Francisco. More companies either working remotely or maybe decentralizing their operations to some degree just because of the quality of life issues that we've talked about and the high cost. So I think Twitter's a real bellwether. They're going to be others for sure. Just go on Twitter now and you can see a lot of prominent VCs and founders talking about it.
Brian Anderson: The piece is getting an enormous amount of attention online and reading the responses and the letters is fascinating because it does clearly suggest that a lot of San Francisco residents and other firms are beginning to see or have been seeing the same kind of things you are and getting fed up about them.
Michael Gibson: It's going to hurt San Francisco should this happen to any great degree. If you look at the 2010 budget, I think it was about $6.4 billion. The 2020 budget for the was almost twice that, $12 billion. A lot of those revenues are coming from taxes collected on tech companies and their employees who live in, shop, and spend money in the city. And so should that drain, I think that the city, which has already stretched financially, is going to feel a pinch. So I chose to move down here before Covid. I sense this as an accelerant on, on that trend of decentralizing the office, to some degree, maybe to a big degree. LA, I moved down here not because there's a hotter tech scene and I was looking for companies here. I moved here for a few reasons. One is that it is a main transportation hub. A lot of our investments occur across North America. So being located not far from LAX, I thought I could travel quite easily. I wanted the nicer weather and the beaches. But maybe what was the most appealing thing to me was the way San Francisco, those dynamics we discussed have also made it very much a monoculture. In part my industry, the tech industry, but really, when people talk about that it's the big tech companies, Google, Facebook, Apple. The prices have driven out all the artists and all the different types of people. There's only one kind of culture in the city. And so Los Angeles to me represented something where you still had all these different types of people in the city, whether it's entertainment, aerospace, just a larger number and that appealed to me. Post-Covid, it's hard to tell what's going to happen. I mean, the mayor here is quite stringent, and the city administrators. They're threatening to lock down the city at least through the summer, maybe until there's a vaccine that's not quite clear. So you know, maybe the quality of life here won't be as good, but I'm not sure what to do about that in short term.
Brian Anderson: Well, thanks very much Michael. Don't forget to check out Michael Gibson's latest essay for City Journal. It's called "America's Havana." It's getting a lot of attention. You can find that and an earlier piece by him on our website and we'll link to it in the description. He's on Twitter @William_Blake, and you can follow City Journal on Twitter as well at @CityJournal, and on Instagram at @cityjournal_mi and if you like what you've heard on today's show, please give us a rating on iTunes. Thanks for listening and thanks again Michael Gibson for joining us. Thanks for having me.
Bet Your Life -- Vote for Democrats
I’m trying to restrain my anger and speak measuredly, but it’s damn hard to do so. (Nancy Pelosi’s latest trial balloon -- an investigation into the President’s handling of the Wuhan virus, was so preposterous it drove me into something I never do -- binge watching old TV serials, in this case “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”) The Wuhan virus spread throughout the world due to the Chinese government’s lies, and the acts of the head of the WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysesus who came to that position from the violent Ethiopian Communist party and covered up for China as did the mainstream U.S. media.
Conrad Black writes at American Greatness:
The same press outlets have been engaged in a scandalous attempt to represent the Chinese response to the crisis as brilliant and to accept Beijing’s claim to have eliminated the virus within its own borders, in embarrassing contrast (they suppose) to Trumpian floundering about.
In reality, the Chinese were inexcusably dishonest in withholding the proportions of the coronavirus outbreak, have not uttered a truthful word about it up to and including this week -- as they claim to have had almost no further fatalities and none at all in the past few days; and were extremely negligent in not moving promptly to restrict outward travel and warn the world.
The same American press which has acclaimed the official Chinese performance with an adulatory hallelujah chorus have railed against President Trump for following the normal practice of identifying the coronavirus geographically. The subordination of the World Health Organization as a cheerleader for China’s odium and criminality will require that the entire leadership of the WHO to be sacked and replaced by people in whom it is possible to have some confidence.
By the time this horrible virus has ravaged the underdeveloped world -- which is completely unprepared to deal with it and where the danger of horrific human devastation is the fear that dare not speak its name -- the complacent support of the corrupt leadership of the United Nations and its agencies by African and Asian states may have abated.
Their actions should not be ignored. But the actions of some elected Democratic officials doubtless contributed greatly to the spread of the disease, and as we show, seem to have had a disproportionate effect on the poor -- especially African Americans in these states and cities, the very blocs of voters who voted them into office.
The people most at risk from the virus are the elderly and the immune-suppressed. Diabetics, pre-diabetics, those with high blood pressure, and the grossly overweight are immune-suppressed and seem hardest hit. At least in NY, these conditions are found disproportionately in the black community.
The contagion also seems concentrated in denser urban areas and among the poor, who must rely on public transportation, live in closer quarters, and whose lack of storage space mean they must risk shopping more often for food and essential supplies. This picture seems clear in NYC. In Southern California the picture may be more closely related to travel from China and crowded conditions in areas with lots of illegal immigrants -- post-virus analysis may clarify that.
New York City's and California’s loony politicos are hooked on identity politics and see racism everywhere, ignoring objective science. The consequences of ignoring reality: overwhelmed medical facilities, lack of proper medical equipment, and soaring death rates.
Daniel Greenfield, writing at Frontpage Magazine, dissects in depth the role of identity politics in New York City, a case history in the consequences of stupid politics and utter mismanagement.
In brief, Mayor de Blasio’s City Health Commissioner, Oxiris Barbot, is a radical who previously served as Health Commissioner of Baltimore where she “had given the city’s race rioters ‘space to destroy.’” Space which continues after her move to New York to result in a soaring murder rate.
She boasted of seeing health policy through a “racial equity lens,” a lens so fogged that she concentrated on discouraging those arriving from Wuhan from going into self-quarantine and encouraging New Yorkers to attend the Lunar New Year celebrations in the city.
"As we gear up to celebrate the #LunarNewYear in NYC, I want to assure New Yorkers that there is no reason for anyone to change their holiday plans, avoid the subway, or certain parts of the city because of #coronavirus," she insisted.
By then there had already been over 17,000 cases of the Wuhan Virus in China with nearly 3,000 new cases in one day. For the first time, someone outside Mainland China had died of the disease.
Manhattan’s Chinatown, where Barbot had appeared, is one of the densest parts of the city. The old core community where the Lunar New Year celebration is based is a maze of cramped tenements, narrow streets, tiny stores whose counters extend far into the street, and other unsafe conditions
Barbot went on urging people to participate in the parade while spreading misinformation about the risk. “You won’t get it merely from riding the subways -- you get it from secretions,” she even claimed.
To her, the enemy was racial prejudice, not a rapidly transmissible, often deadly virus with a spread we can only hope to reduce by practicing social distance and good hygiene.
New York’s health authorities ignored objective research and placed the city’s residents at great risk, and the outbreak exploded.
So blinded by identity politics was the mayor that he never even ordered protective equipment until mid-March.
A staggering 6,582 additional people tested positive for the deadly bug since Thursday evening, bringing the city’s total confirmed cases to 56,289. Another 305 New Yorkers died from the virus, pushing the death toll up to 1,867.
More than 1,100 more coronavirus patients were hospitalized in the past day. Since the outbreak 11,739 people have been hospitalized. The city’s ICU capacity is at 88 percent with just 370 beds left unfilled.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday, just before the new statistics were released, that the coming days will be even darker.
In fact, de Blasio’s rejection of science and utter mismanagement is matched only by his ignorance of the law. This week, the dictatorial nitwit decided we should draft doctors and nurses to help his people out of the mess for which he bears no small degree of responsibility. Tom Maguire reports:
The greatest city in the world is teetering on the brink so its Mayor seizes the opportunity to remind us he is a useless buffoon:
· COVID-19: De Blasio urges US enlistment program for doctors and nurses
· Mayor calls for medics to be moved to places in greatest need
· New York City prepares for surge in coronavirus cases
· "Enlistment program"?!? WHAT did he say?
· New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, has called for a national enlistment program for doctors and nurses, to handle an expected surge in coronavirus cases in New York and across the US.
· “If we’re fighting a war, let’s act like we’re fighting a war,” he told reporters on Friday.
· "...unless the military is fully mobilized and we create something we’ve never had before, which is some kind of national enlistment of medical personnel moved to the most urgent needs in the country constantly … if we don’t have that we’re going to see hospitals simply unable to handle so many people who could be saved.”
OK, that won't be happening. As a minor point, there is no time for Congress to pass the relevant legislation. As a major point, this is still America, we abandoned the draft decades ago, and we don't force people to work at gunpoint.
And how would it work? NY hospitals are short of Protective Personal Equipment. So the Feds are going to threaten to arrest some doctor in Vermont unless he gets down to NY and imperils himself by treating coronavirus patients? And if the good people of the great state of Vermont need health care down the road, NY promises to send their doctor back, unless he's sick or dead or super busy saving New Yorkers in which case, well, that's a problem for another day? [snip]
As a further illustration that desperate times require desperate short-sightedness, this order by Gov. Cuomo is outrageous:
Cuomo said he would sign an executive order that allows the national guard to take ventilators and personal protective equipment from institutions that don’t need them right now and redistribute them to those that do. He said those institutions would either have their ventilators returned to them or get reimbursements. Cuomo said there may be several hundred ventilators available because of the order.
Right now, the state is fielding a daily need for about 300 additional ventilators, he said. Those ventilators, officials have repeatedly explained, make the difference between life and death.
“Am I willing to deploy the national guard and inconvenience people for several hundred lives? You’re damn right I am,” Cuomo said…
I guess Gov. Cuomo's message is "tough luck".
Nancy Pelosi
The first reference I can find of a mysterious virus in Wuhan was one in Mandarin dated December 31, 2019, three weeks before the Pelosi-promoted California congressman Adam Schiff’s impeachment trial, which began on January 21. One day after the ill-fated impeachment trial began, the CDC reported the first domestic virus case and the New York Times reported that the Chinese government was quarantining Wuhan. Eight days after the first case was reported in the U.S., the president formed the coronavirus task force. That same day WHO declared the virus a Global Health emergency. The next day (January 31), the President declared a public health emergency, quarantined U.S. citizens returning from China’s Hubei Province and restricted entry into the U.S. from China. (The Democrats charged him with racism for doing so though this step has proven critical to slowing the spread of the virus here.)
Two days later, on February 2, he suspended entry of others who posed a risk of transmitting the virus (and thereafter, added to suspension of entry people from other countries where the virus was appearing). On February 4 in his State of the Union address, he warned of the virus. Nancy Pelosi in a public temper tantrum and show of contempt ripped up her copy of the State of the Union address.
On February 24, twenty days after the President issued his warning about the virus and almost one month after he restricted entry from China, Nancy Pelosi publicly stated that people should pay no attention to the coronavirus fears and joined crowds in San Francisco’s Chinese lunar new years' celebrations, “We think it’s very safe,” she said.
On March 11, The President suspended travel from Europe, and the WHO officially declared the virus a pandemic. The following day, NYC declared a state of emergency and issued a statewide ban on all large gatherings.
I can only imagine what the death toll will be in California. San Francisco has immune-suppressed HIV-AIDs affected citizens (about 12,985 people living with HIV in San Francisco) and thousands of homeless people living on the streets. So far, the homeless do not seem particularly affected, but if (or once) it makes an appearance there, I suspect it will take a substantial toll. I suppose many of these people are already quite unhealthy, live cheek by jowl outdoors on feces-heaped streets, and lack access to means to practice proper hygiene. California also has a large number of immigrants -- in recent years, largely from Asia:
The majority of recent arrivals are from Asia.
The vast majority of California’s immigrants were born in Latin America (50%) or Asia (40%). California has sizable populations of immigrants from dozens of countries; the leading countries of origin are Mexico (4.1 million), China (969,000), the Philippines (857,000), Vietnam (524,000), and India (507,000). However, most (56%) of those arriving between 2010 and 2017 came from Asia; only 29% came from Latin America.
At the moment the virus is racing faster through Southern California than Northern California, with Los Angeles County hardest hit. Santa Clara County with a high percentage of Asian population (37%) was hard hit as well though at the moment Los Angeles is hardest of the California counties hit.
I have for reasons for space and time limited the discussion largely to di Blasio and Pelosi, but they are certainly not the only Democratic politicians whose foolishness proves they are never to be trusted at the times we need sound political leadership most.
If you vote for people like these, you bet your life (and mine).
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