Blue City State Schadenfreude - Elections have Consequences
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Another historic first: In-N-Out closes a restaurant in Oakland on truly scary crime concerns
The details of that closure, from the company are ugly enough:
It's pretty bad if you have to close a profitable restaurant because the crime hitting your customers and staff outweighs even the profit. As with LAX, this In-N-Out is located on the highway to Oakland's airport which makes it a convenient place to eat in the era of no-meal airline flights.
It's an area that has grown bleak. A correspondent who has been there noted to me by message this morning:
It gets even worse when you read the San Francisco Chronicle's account of what was going on there:
...and...
This is the kind of horror that happens in Latin America, in the bad parts of Venezuela, or Colombia, or maybe Brazil during its worst years. You can't build a society with trust with that kind of unpunished crime going on, and obviously, it's been going on a long time for it to get to that level.
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Yep, this is why a lot of the r/thievesgettingeffed (that's not the right word at the end there
) content is from those countries. People there know damn well that you need to kill the criminals.
JFC ... this broad in the opening clip actually suggests car jacking in DC are because people cannot afford cars BLAMING greedy dealerships, people need to get groceries ... then some chick interviewed outside the CVS
well they are probably stealing because they need the items being stolen .... yeah 45 teens stealing chips and drinks are starving
WT ACTUAL FU CK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE
well they are probably stealing because they need the items being stolen .... yeah 45 teens stealing chips and drinks are starving
WT ACTUAL FU CK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE
DC CVS SHUTS DOWN After WOKE Residents Defend Teenagers MASS SHOPLIFTING By Claiming They DESPERATE!
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Oakland’s Largest Private Employer Tells Employees to Stay in Buildings for Lunch
Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, told its employees to eat their lunch in the building due to numerous robberies of workers on their lunch breaks.
Employee Arielle Crenshaw told KTVU: “It’s just kind of scary in general, not even just to go to work, just kind of coming outside. If you can work at home, work at home. If you have to come in, just be safe about it.”
Kaiser also told those not in Oakland who come to the city not to have meetings downtown or hold them online.
Kaiser told KTVU: “Those recommendations remain in place for now. Kaiser Permanente is committed to ensuring the safety and security of our employees and physicians across all of our locations. We continually monitor our environments for concerns, review our practices and strengthen them wherever possible.”
Trump administration official Mike Gill is critically-ill after being shot during carjacking by suspect who killed another car owner
- Mike Gill was shot while collecting his lawyer wife in DC Monday evening
- The former Trump administration official remains critically-ill
- Suspect shot and killed second driver, before being gunned down by cops
A Trump administration official is critically-ill after being shot during a carjacking in crime-ridden Washington DC, whose perpetrator then killed another victim.
The heavily liberal-leaning city has seen carjackings skyrocket of late, with 953 in 2023 alone, nearly nine times as many as there were in 2018.
Mike Gill, a married father of three, was blasted by the unnamed suspect on K Street NW around 5:45pm Monday. He was collecting his wife, an education lawyer, at the time of the incident and was inside the car when he was struck.
Gill managed to get out of his car, but collapsed shortly afterwards.
He served as chief operating officer of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during Donald Trump's time in the White House. .
NYPD black and blue: Moment gang of four migrants beats two police officers to ground in Times Square - before being freed without bail
Four migrants were filmed clobbering two NYPD officers to the ground in Times Square...before being released without bail.
The incident began at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday night on West 42nd Street, as the pair of cops told the violent quartet men to get moving.
That's when a fight started to break out between a suspect in a yellow sweatshirt and the police officers.
According to the NYPD, the migrants then started to attack the officers, kicking them in the head and body while the two officers try to pin down one of the other men, tearing off his sweatshirt.
The migrants then ran away, leaving the unidentified police officers on the ground while they made their getaway east on 42nd Street toward Seventh Avenue.
Music videos, social media play major role in DC shootings, report finds
“There is a deadly mix of group/crew/gang members making music videos taunting or disrespecting their rivals that are posted on social media, and those videos spark or further inflame neighborhood conflicts that escalate into shootings,” according to the report. “While the music videos were identified as the primary issue, other comments and pictures posted to social media by group members also lead to shootings.”
Additional leading causes of shootings include drug sales and drug use, robberies, personal disputes — such as fighting over a young woman — and the increased availability of firearms, the report found.
Homicides have risen gradually in the District since 2017.
“The homicide rate in D.C. was about 180% higher in 2022 than it was in 2017,” according to the report. “Unlike most of the country, D.C. experienced an even higher rate of homicides in 2023.”
Specifically, researchers examined 406 homicides and 587 nonfatal injury shootings in 2021 and 2022. They found that victims and suspects were primarily male, Black and between the ages of 18 and 34.
White Dem. Elected Officials Talk Down to Black Citizen About What They Can't Do to Stop DC Crime (Watch)
If you want a visual for how Democrats govern, this video where a black citizen voices his concerns to a panel of elected Democrats about the crime in his city and the powerful white Democrats' reaction to his concerns is a great place to start.
Imagine thinking it's ok to tell people you can't arrest and prosecute your way out of crime.
That's EXACTLY what you do, you a-holes. You don't give them a bunch of free stuff and hope that keeps them from stealing from others.
Watch this:
Here's an Idea for Dem Senators From Mass. Who Protested Store Closings (Due to High Crime)
First, I was struck by what's not mentioned in the story (or some others as well), but I'll get to that in a minute.
The store closures have drawn the attention of Massachusetts' two Democrat senators, who protested recently:
Democrats call these "underserved communities," and often -- with the media's help as you can see -- they don't care to explain why these areas are "underserved": They're run by soft-on-crime Democrats and businesses don't want to invest in areas where they're just going to lose their money (and maybe more).
Nowhere in the above story is the primary reason for the closures mentioned, which is crime (keep voting for Democrats, everybody, it's working out great for you):
When this is what Walgreens has to deal with, I'm not surprised.... pic.twitter.com/nqMGTT9G1l
— HardBoiledEgg(@HarderBoiledEgg) January 16, 2024
No, it's not. Also to a large degree, the owners of these stores and even the media won't mention the reason for the closures because they don't want to be called racist.
That brings me to my idea for lefty Sens. Warren and Markey -- especially Warren: Why don't they open their own damn stores in the area? Elizabeth Warren is worth well over $10 million and it's her chance to help these folks who are, according to Democrats, being victimized by mean corporations. Warren and Markey could surely raise capital from other rich Democrats in Congress for this humanitarian venture, right? Wrong. They'll never put their own money where their lying mouths are.
Squad’s Pressley Accuses Walgreens Of Racism After It Closes Store In Her District
“Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy in the Massachusetts 7th, this time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85% black and Latino,” Pressley said on the House floor. “This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low-income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th. When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood, they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs.”
“These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent,” Pressley charged. “They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination.”
“That is why I joined with Senators Markey and Warren to demand answers from Walgreens’ CEO,” she continued. “Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens. Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough. Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities.”
Hey Squad, support thieves being prosecuted and jailed as Thieves!!!
yeah whining about Walgreens shutting down stores ..... when stores are being robbed blind