Apparently living amid a city that is fraught with crime is comfortable for a lot of people in San Francisco, at least according to one of the most leftist Mayors in the nation. You know things are bad when the Mayor of San Francisco, who ran on a platform to remove cops from the streets, starts shouting about the “bull**it that has destroyed the city”, and proclaiming that rampant lawlessness needs to stop.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed delivered a statement yesterday that is the exact opposition of her social program message from the past few years. Apparently, the rise in random gangs of looters destroying the city and organized retail theft has become problematic for the politicians who hold power over the city.
Quite a remarkable shift in position, however, the transparency of motive is clear. Breed’s faux anger and conveniently new frustration over the crime surge in the city were on full display at her noon news conference where she changed the rules of the safari park. WATCH:
Democrats are worried about how their anti-police position has brought the criminal chickens home to roost. Politically, Democrats -writ large- are trying to distance themselves from the crime their policies have created. National polls show voters are correctly attributing the rise in crime to Democrats. Thus, they need to change direction quickly.
SAN FRANCISCO – After months of viral videos showing deteriorating conditions on the streets of San Francisco, including smash-and-grab robberies and open-air drug use, the city’s mayor has moved to implement a new public safety approach to curb criminal behavior. Her move could signal a recognition by the Democratic establishment that crime may prove a potent issue in upcoming elections.
Speaking at City Hall on Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed lamented “all the bullshit that has destroyed our city,” including thefts at high-end stores like Louis Vuitton, rampant vehicle break-ins and a seeming flood of the potent drug fentanyl. All of it has been captured on video, making for regular Fox News segments and rising consternation among Democrats who see crime as a potential weakness in next year’s midterm elections. (read more)
That last bullet point is a little funny, no?…
I mean what good were the city CCTV cameras if the police were not allowed to use them?
Were the cameras installed so the city could just randomly document criminals running amok for posterity?
So I guess BLM and Antifa are on ice until after the elections?
Who’s going to transport and stuff all the ballots, they’re being reassigned.
This is why they’re actively importing another 30 million illegal aliens by the end of next year.
That’s mostly done over the air, electronically now. They just need to print and drop off the matching ballots to match the fake votes later.
No they will be needed for their day jobs at the polling stations.
No need for polling stations, it’ll be all vote by mail.
They are brought out, on cue, every four years, ever since 2012 and the Trayvon Hoax…with occasional appearances around mid-terms or in times of extreme need to sow seeds of racial division!
When one finally sees the strings on the marionette….
I’ve also noted since the arrival of PDJT that Hollywood celebrities also take their turns at ‘whack-a-mole’. When was the last time you heard from Lena Dunham, Madonna, Patton Oswalt, Alec Baldwin (sorry, too soon?). This pattern, to me, also seems to follow through Congress. Almost on cue as you’ve said.
we heard from alec……… BANG!!!!!!!
“Cocking’s for closers.”
Looks like he finished 3rd 😂
Yeah, but this time the mayor must have been disinvited to Xmas parties from her rich friends that no longer feel safe in exclusive shopping stores. That demands tough talk and immediate action!
That is MY guess, to. Mayor Greed has been told to make the Louis Vitton stores SAFE or she won’t get any campaign contributions.
Or luxury hand bags
I read on another thread they rounded a few cells up in San Diego..
do you think they can stay quiet for 10 months ? N F W
Yeah… GOOD LUCK trying to put THAT toothpaste back in the tube.
All it will take is another out of context video to catch on and “peaceful riots”are back baby.
Waiting for new uniforms. The slowdown in the supply chain…
Everything woke…..
There’s a video out on the gateway pundit about NYC cops arresting people at Cheesecake Factory for disobeying the jab tyranny.
I cannot support cops anymore after they showed me they are willing to “just obey orders” and take innocent people people to jail.
It’s all FUBAR.
Cloward Piven.
ve vere only followinkv orders
A doctor friend of mine said they had a military officer at their deer camp as a guest. Around the campfire someone asked him if he would ever fire on his fellow citizens. He said he would obey orders. He was told never to come back. FJB
Not surprised. With that said, a kinetic war is what they want. They win that one. The one they can’t win is an alternate economy.
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Here in NE Florida we have the best of any law enforcement in the nation. Our sheriff’s deputies are awesome. Like everything else in this magnificent State of Florida we have super great law enforcement.
As a life long resident, I can tell you that Red County Sheriff Departments are awesome. However, places like Orange County under the Demmings reign had the one of the highest levels of police brutality complaints in the Country. Soros funded DA’s are also a very real problem in the Metro areas.
I have been feeling the same about the cops. Stopped giving to the national organizations. Just to my local bunch.
Everything Woke … and Everything Broke.
Coincidence? We don’t think so …
Saw the same videos a few minutes ago…Cheesecake Factory Mgr said arrest them and he’d press charges. Another woke business that does not deserve our money.
She seems upset that she had to do this. Will the $700 cap on looting still be in place?
It’s $950 now…inflation!
Chesa boudin as DA enforces that and its 950 now thank you. He is being recalled and the tech companies are backing it from what I read. Hes toast and I’m thinking his predecessor and current LA DA Gascon will be looking for a new job as well.
Delicate balancing act here. Need to have the city safe enough so that big money political donors stick around, and continue to donate, yet at the same time need the city so dangerous that its inhabitants continue to look to the politicians to save them, spending untold amounts of their money to “do something about it”.
Very astute observation. Threading the needle, so-to-speak.
Yes, threading the needle. Even in times of peace and prosperity the politicians are predictable in their behavior. An observation made many years ago when H.L. Mencken wrote:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The notion that defunding the police will somehow improve public safety is like thinking that shooting Smokey the Bear will prevent forest fires.
……but seriously, ‘progressives’ are intellectual troglodytes and pose a threat to all Americans – Americans of Color in particular.
Well, after all “Only you can prevent forest fires.”
Communist racist democrats. What else can I say?
Stating the obvious, Lefties are kind of stupid.
Leftists are “a kind” of stupid. The logic defying stunning “kind” of stupid.
Are a Special Kind of Stupid. Just Saying
Who’da thunk it?
The mission district bath house used to be a landmark ,Mano on Mano , The Wind jammer , the Man Hole ,and the Hotel Hacienda on O’Farrell St class acts, along with the tenderloin meat rack, wow! and It’s sad what they did to Polk st with sister midnight and Jimmy Rocky horror oh how they ruled the night , and now look at it , 😡 you wouldn’t even recognize it
I guess I missed out on its golden years. Darn.
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I always stayed at the st. francis hotel whenever I was in SF on biz. I cannot recall what district that is in, but I walked everywhere, pretty much.
I also enjoyed the history of the st. francis. I looked up fatty arbuckle’s room and went and stood outside the door and just imagined the times… (fatty gained notoriety in the early 1900s when a girl died in his room during an evening party).
Also the st francis was affected during the 1905 earthquake.
I wonder how it’s doing now.
Make no mistake. The black community are the main perpetrators of crime. The defund the police movement was a ploy to get the black community to vote for Dems to avoid arrest and jail for breaking the law.
People can claim it was to limit the disparate impact on black communities, etc but the reason it is disparate is that the crime committed is disparate.
Instead of coddling the criminals and just letting them out of jail or to rum rampant on the streets, the black community should have addressed the real root causes. And that means not blaming the police, or poverty, or instiitutions, or whitey. It means facing up to the criminals in the neighborhood, putting them in jail, keeping them away from our youth, and finding jobs and real economic security.
I would say most of the black community wants that, yet they still excuse and condone crime as part of their victim mentality.
Just like Chris Cuomo helping his brother get away with crime, no one wants to turn in their family and friends. However, they do need to stop condoning crime. 600 people (99% black) murdered in Chicago every year? And Detroit, and NYC, and Philly, and Baltimore, etc. It is ridiculous and yet they do nothing to stop it.
Shhhh, those are the real inconvenient truths Al Gore should have made a movie about.
The Dparty could have worked to strengthen black families, black education, black job training and America but they chose the keep them on the plantation option.
Maybe the confused should watch “The First 48” on A&E sometime. Start with Season 1.
Been that way since the Civil War…. well, before that really.
When the hood rats come back home cruising in Bentleys and wearing gold teeth, all from hip hop proceeds, why would the residents bother with a clean up campaign? That grimy narrative fuels the hip hop industry. Whitey is who’s buying it!!
Chicago #’s way low,
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 772
Shot & Wounded: 3616
Total Shot: 4388
Total Homicides: 821
Sounds to me like Mayor Breed can not shop for Christmas this year, after the mobs ransacked her favorite upscale stores . . .
The Uniparty liberals are panicking! The BBB plan will not get a vote before the new year, and inflation has got everyone’s attention. Barack Hussein, and FJB, will provide some lip service and maybe videos of crime being attacked, but it will be fluff. Meanwhile inflation will continue at breakneck speed and for everyone to feel the pain of the “Destroy our Nation Administration”.
Eventually the stock market will fall. How much longer can they continue propping the stock market? The stock market has been basically flat for the past 8-months. The longer this persists the greater risk for the stock market.
They have lost control of inflation. IMO, it is just a matter of time they will be unable to control the stock market. The people have little control over inflation. However, the people have more control with the stock market.
The so-called mayor can babble all she wants.
It means nothing unless there are prosecutions and severe consequences.
And the streets are clean again.
And you can park your car for an hour w/o coming back to smashed windows.
And the Drug and Grocery Stores that moved out, move back in.
And , and, and…..
don’t hold your breath
Once they move out, seldom do they come back. Just Saying.
They will arrest, prosecute and imprison the usual suspects. To make room for them , all those who are now serving a prison sentence will be released.
It will be the usual revolving door, Keystone cop theatrics common to all Democrat strongholds.
Declare martial law – enforced with prejudice – looters and arsonists shot on sight.
They won’t change direction only talking points. But it’s clear the polling has told them to talk a different game. This mayor acts like she just moved in and is shocked by the crime. What a lame act.
Need a vaccine passport to loot now?
A valid tax pass, with all the boosters may never be fully vaxxed.
haha.
That little gate going to stop a crash and loot mob with two SGs. What are they going to do, shoot em?
Pro Tip for Florida Newcomers, DO NOT get cheap with your sinkhole insurance.
….” National polls show voters are correctly attributing the rise in crime to Democrats. “…..
Nice that people are finally waking up to this.
And, I’ll believe London Breed is serious when I see it. Not before.
Gonna be pretty hard to reel the mess in, now that they’ve let it go so far.
And, haven’t they lost a lot of cops? Just like the other Corrupt Dem Cities?
Oh well, good luck San Francisco.
This is all about the polling. Make no mistake. They aren’t going down without a fight! This was years in the making and when it doesn’t get any better, they’ll blame the cops and then start ranting about how the Republicans all voted to defund the police come election time. Unfortunately, their idiotic Dem voters will believe it and continue to vote DemocRat. 2022 will be a make or break election. We need poll watchers out in force. The only way Dems win, is if they are allowed to cheat!
When I was a kid in the ’60s and ’70s, San Francisco was one of the most beautiful cities in the country. My uncle lived in Burlingame and I used to love our trips into the city when we were visiting. I left CA in ’84 and only returned now and then to visit my parents. Watching the state go downhill was just sad.
I lived in San Leandro in the early 80s next to Oakland. There were places in Oakland I wouldnt walk around in, but I never felt concerned in frisco. Seemed like a nice town back then with an eclectic vibe.
It was so cool back then the Animals even wrote a song about it.
“We’ve Gotta Get Outta This Place” … They must have been psychic?
When I was a kid – in the 60’s- some friends of my parents took a cross country car trip w/ their two little kids fr/ East to West one summer.
When they returned They had us over for a slide show. The parents were In. Love. with San Francisco.
They did everything they could to move back there and within two years they were on their way back to live in San Francisco, permanently.
I think about that family from time to time, and how they’re doing now.
This was their fave song when they came back East that summer, naturally:
I went to San Francisco. I found somebody’s heart. Stephen Wright
If you go there now you’ll find mostly piles of human feces.
I am pretty sure all the Normals left the Bay Area many Moons ago.
In the fall 1975 I visited the Bay Area and was quite impressed with the shops and restaurants there. The streets were clean and I felt safe walking around, even at night.
I visited in the 90’s and thought it was just fine.
‘Course, Seattle was fine then, too.
When people/”leaders” decide to trash their town/country/whatever, it doesn’t take long>>>> as long as they’re really serious about it.
The Dems have shown that – when they make their mind up- they can git ‘er done in record time.
JP Morgan announced today that their annual healthcare conference (always early in the new year, in San Francisco), the investment industry’s most important healthcare conference, will go virtual, permanently. JP Morgan blamed Covid, but, the unmentioned, larger issue is the crap hole that is San Francisco.
With the loss of all those investors on expense accounts, San Franciso hotels and restaurants are going to lose a lot of business next month, and in future years.
parody of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”.
sunnydaze,
Thanks for the chuckle.
Breed is a thugette from the Baywiew. She would like Newsom to pardon her brother, who murdered a young woman by throwing her out of his car in heavy Bay Bridge traffic, where she was instantly turned into pulp. Breed tried to help him by providing a fake alibi.
She will do the absolute minimum to keep the political heat off. Bif BLM supporter.
Tough talk is just talk.
Ya, she is going to piss off Chesa and George and all the other criminals but, screw them, her political life is on the line here.
Oh, Sweet Saint of San Andreas, hear my prayer.
Hey if it happens, it won’t be your Fault.
I see what you sayin’
You crack me up.
😉
You guys are cracking me up.
Damn. Lizzie beat me to it. 🙂
So is Breed re-drawing the city’s defecation-friendly sidewalks map?
Installing “TP friendly cubicles” along the way, for many. They also double as a stab-spot.
Breaking news:
Nancy Pelosi puts newly purchased Florida beachfront house on market. Seeks new home in San Francisco’s up and coming Tenderloin District.
“I really like Mayor Breed’s tough stance on crime,” said Pelosi.
Love sarcasm with out the tag, nicely done.
Oh God, I wish this was true.
Tenderloin’s a stretch, but why not somewhere else in CA?
High CA. prices are No. Problem for her. Pi$$es me off that she won’t just stay there.
Raise your hand if you believe what she is saying.
I’ll wait”…………………………………………………………………
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He looks far too alert in this picture.
Figure Alec Baldwin could clean things up in a week. Yeah I said it.
As long as he didn’t pull the trigger.
Dont be fooled…I’ve read that the tech companies are backing the recall of chesa boudin as DA whicg means their operations are now affected by the spike in crime and poor living conditions. The money is speaking…nothing else.
Funny… none of her proposals actually involved incarcerating criminals.
1) What will she do when police start arresting people and the demographics don’t match the city?
2) The police are only the first step in the judicial system. She needs to do something with the prosecutors.
I had to read the headline 3 times. Yeah, right. And I’m sure your buddy to the north, the pdx mayor, and one in Seattle are going to do the same. No way.
Blah blah blah. They’ve invited this mess, they own this mess and it is not going anywhere. Frankly it is too big. Seattle looks like one big outdoor dope den.
No cops and the ones that are around know that the prosecutors will not prosecute.
Don’t worry, you count the votes.
They must be worried about cash. London needs a new pair of shoes.
There are two types of “Progressives” here in SF. One the rabid, foaming in the mouth retards who espouse “Progressivism” in a Religious fervor — it’s literally a religion to them. To say anything that counter their religion means you are EVIL.
If you oppose Global Warming, Transgenderism – especially Hormone Replacement Thearphy in children under 10, Defund the Police, oppose Communism — that makes you worse than HITLER! Also many “Progressives” come from very rich families here.
There is no shades of gray in how you are judged as a non-believer, it’s literally only two states, GOOD or EVIL. (Which is ironic since they don’t believe the about Gender being just Male or Female.)
And then there is the classic San Francisco Limousine Liberals, who use the “Progressive” moniker to score virtue points with the “In Crowd”, they believe in the “cause” only until it effects their lives.
Sure they may join in BLM protests, but only if there is no danger to themselves and if can easily return home to their multi-million dollar homes in Pacific Heights or St. Francis Woods in SF. Unlike the “Progressives” who are Religious Fanatics, you can try to reason with them to some small extent… but only if there isn’t “Progressive” near by.
In my lifetime here in San Francisco, the WORST FRIENDS I’VE EVER MADE were Limousine Liberals, because nothing is scared to them, they’ll stab you in the back the moment it’s convenient.
In both cases with with Limousine Liberals and Progressives, the Message trumps just trying to be decent human beings by not injecting Politics into everything, as it’s always a farce about keeping up appearances. And that’s the ultimate sad part!
The Chinese are very traditional, work hard, save, buy property, start businesses. They don’t typically play the games, and hate the Woke games at Lowell High school.
~30 yrs ago I moved just a state away and convinced some other ‘young adults’ (old kids? hehe) to head out to SF and see the city, some shows; to go live it like an Otis Redding song. Damn, I’m glad we did. Because, the ’90s may have been about the last great decade for the city, though Barry’s run with the Giants did help the 00’s.
But, Chinatown was still relevant, the Haight was still sortof safe (with a better chance of walking by dog droppings than peoples’), the Dead actually had a radio hit. Though the tech glaze continues it’s facade currently, it hasn’t got long til- Philadelphia. Milwaukee. It’ll always have the beach, but- if you have to be TRULY careful not to step on an AIDS ridden needle while walking it… ugh. Going BROKE. The ripoff is historic. Epic. Tax/debt/pension time bomb, close countdown.
I agree that the 90’s was the last great decade but even then the city was having some of these crime problems, some perpetrated by the police. My car was stolen/towed numerous times while parked legally. Once I parked at Coit Tower and came back to a windowless car. Actually the bat they used was left sticking out of the windshield. After numerous thefts by the police and tow companies and window replacements I took the train into the city or I parked in a parking structure that had security. After that no more car problems.
We had fun in SF! We would take walks from one side of the city to the other at night. It wasn’t like walking through a field of flowers but that’s what made it fun. It breaks my heart to see the condition of the city, the state of California as a whole today. That’s why I left. The ideology driving the politics is disgusting.
Being a white male is the same as walking around as Hitler. I lived through Desegregation, Affirmative Action, diversity, preferential treatment and whatever else used to justify racist beliefs going back to the 80’s. Did any of those policies lift “minorities “ into a better social, economic status? NO IT DID NOT!!! It was plain racism…….
That’s so racissss.
Have to give kudos to a Democrat that might be receptive to course change.
Attention dummies of San Francisco- heres your chance to reelect someone thats a bigger dummy than you.
Keep your cell phone in your pocket
Because when seconds count the cops are only, mehh,a half hour or so away. The cell phone tells them where to find your body. Gottsta make it easy on the cops. A hundred years ago it was
Keep your gun near to hand. WTF happened?
Maybe all the high-end retailers and the business segment in general have finally had enough…and told her “it’s us or them…you choose. Clean it up or were outta here!” 💩💩💩💩
Good luck with that. In order to bring about real change you first need good leadership. That’s something San Fransicko lacks and I don’t see change coming anytime soon. Sleep in the bed you made.
#EatTheRich seemed like such a great idea when they all thought the rich were a bunch of conservatives.
Now? Not so much …
Is Karma or the law of unintended consequences, 🤔🤔🤔??
Or, is it that the education system wasted a lot of minds?
At least ten years ago I met a potential client, in the Financial district, on the street, to get some lunch. He was from out of town.
I was use to the intimidation tactic, used by “homeless” people, to shake down tourists.
So I out intimidated the beggar and he moved on with his tails between his legs.
The potential client was aghast and chased down the drug addict with a hand-full of cash.
SMH. Shltlibs. Only a few seconds before he was sure this creep was going to kill him.
We forgot about lunch.
Election fraud is so deeply intrenched all across this country chances of law biding honest folk every recovering the upper hand in our politics/government is slim at best..
She’s also appealing to common sense Democrats west of Twin Peaks in the residential neighborhoods – the Sunset, Richmond, and West Portal.
I recently walked Market Street from the Financial Dustrict to Mid Market, and possibly 30% of small businesses were closed. The City can’t sustain that forever.
The reality then hits with radical DA Chelsea Bordin (sp?) – who rarely prosecutes crimes. Numerous Democrat attorneys in the DAs office have resigned in disgust. Doesn’t matter who’s arrested, who’s prosecuted?
Typical.
Dems CREATED the problem, and NOW they’ll try to claim they have the SOLUTION for it.
They are the arsonist who is very active with the local volunteer fire department.
Blah blah blah
PPPFFFTTT!
Does SF have the intentionally weak Soros bail laws?
Probably.
I thought cracking down on crime, going after drug users and supporting law enforcement were all raycissss?!