{"id":1702162,"date":"2022-10-19T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702162"},"modified":"2022-10-19T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:46:14","slug":"descended-into-a-city-of-chaos-ceo-closes-san-francisco-store-scorches-liberal-citys-lawlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/descended-into-a-city-of-chaos-ceo-closes-san-francisco-store-scorches-liberal-citys-lawlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Descended Into A City Of Chaos\u2019: CEO Closes San Francisco Store, Scorches Liberal City\u2019s Lawlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdescended-into-a-city-of-chaos-ceo-closes-san-francisco-store-scorches-liberal-citys-lawlessness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702162&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The founder of a popular clothing and gear outfitter wrote a scathing goodbye letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco<\/a>, saying he\u2019s pulling out because the city has \u201cdescended into a city of chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotopaxi CEO Davis Smith said near-daily brazen robberies, constant vandalism, and fears for the safety of his employees have left him no choice but to shutter the store he opened \u201cin a charming shopping district\u201d a year ago. The city\u2019s refusal to do anything about theft and safety makes it impossible to run the business, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team is terrified,\u201d Smith wrote in a lengthy note <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:6988177773722841088\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on LinkedIn<\/a>. \u201cThey feel unsafe. Security guards don\u2019t help because these theft rings know that security guards won\u2019t\/can\u2019t stop them. It\u2019s impossible for a retail store to operate in these circumstances, especially when cities refuse to take any action (despite us paying taxes well above any other state we operate in).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of today, we are closing the store due to rampant organized theft and lack of safety for our team,\u201d Smith wrote. \u201cOur store is hit by organized theft rings several times per week. They brazenly enter the store and grab thousands of dollars of product and walk out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several businesses have left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-commercial-real-estate-crash-coming-to-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco<\/a> since the city reduced the penalty for shoplifting under $950 worth of goods amid a surge in homelessness, public drug use, and crime. Countless viral videos have shown shoplifters emptying store shelves into garbage bags and walking out of stores as security guards watch.<\/p>\n<p>Cotopaxi, named for an active volcano in the rugged Andes Mountains of Ecuador, is a competitor of Patagonia that sells outdoor clothing and gear and touts its commitment to the environment, global hunger, and other causes. But Smith, who founded the Utah-based company in 2014, said his business never had a chance in the City by the Bay.<\/p>\n<p>During the first week the store was open at 549 Hayes St., thieves smashed its windows and looted it. Smith said he had the windows replaced four times before finally putting up plywood. The store tried keeping its doors locked during business hours, allowing only shoppers to enter. But Smith said organized teams would send in a woman to pose as a customer, then sneak in behind her to steal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-452356 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-7.48.55-AM-1024x418.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-7.48.55-AM-1024x418.png 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-7.48.55-AM-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-7.48.55-AM-768x314.png 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-19-at-7.48.55-AM.png 1068w\" alt=\"Cotopaxi CEO Davis Smith said near-daily brazen robberies, constant vandalism, and fears for the safety of his employees have left him no choice but to shutter the store he opened \u201cin a charming shopping district\u201d a year ago.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-452356\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-452356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith, who posted photos on LinkedIn, said his store was vandalized within days of opening a year ago. (Davis Smith\/LinkedIn)<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who grew up in Latin America, said he and his wife have gotten first-hand tastes of the city\u2019s spiral into lawlessness. He described a recent visit, saying his rental car was broken into. When he called police, they blamed him for parking on the street, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another time, he wrote, \u201ca drugged up person ran up to my wife\u2019s face and started screaming some of the most obscene things I\u2019ve ever heard. She was terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sad, but San Francisco appears to have descended into a city of chaos,\u201d Smith wrote. \u201cMany streets and parks are overrun with drugs, criminals, and homelessness, and local leadership and law enforcement enable it through inaction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of a popular clothing and gear outfitter wrote a scathing goodbye letter to San Francisco, saying he\u2019s pulling out because the city has \u201cdescended into a city of chaos.\u201d Cotopaxi CEO Davis Smith said near-daily brazen robberies, constant vandalism, and fears for the safety of his employees have left him no choice but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Descended Into A City Of Chaos\u2019: CEO Closes San Francisco Store, Scorches Liberal City\u2019s Lawlessness","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Descended Into A City Of Chaos\u2019: CEO Closes San Francisco Store, Scorches Liberal City\u2019s Lawlessness","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}