{"id":1930533,"date":"2023-05-13T17:57:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T21:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-police-solving-3-6-of-reported-larcenies-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T22:02:03","slug":"san-francisco-police-solving-3-6-of-reported-larcenies-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-police-solving-3-6-of-reported-larcenies-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Police solve only 3.6% of larcenies in 2023."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsan-francisco-police-solving-3-6-of-reported-larcenies-in-2023%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=1930533&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--><h2>Shoplifting in San Francisco: A Rampant Problem<\/h2>\n<p>Shoplifting might as well be legal in San Francisco. A story published today by the San Francisco Chronicle confirms that only a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-aoc-proposes-shuttering-coal-plant-that-provides-20-of-puerto-ricos-electricity\/\" title=\"WATCH: AOC Proposes Shuttering Coal Plant That Provides 20% Of Puerto Rico\u2019s Electricity\">tiny fraction<\/a> of petty theft cases get solved in the city.<\/p>\n<h3>The Reality of Shoplifting<\/h3>\n<p>At a Metro PCS store near City Hall in San Francisco, clerk Maria Gonzalez said shoplifters invade at least twice a week, at times jumping over the counter to swipe phones, cords and anything else they can snatch\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe tell them to get out, but they\u2019re going to take what they\u2019re going to take,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cMore than anything, I feel scared for my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Across California, clearance rates for petty larcenies \u2014 thefts without the use of force or threat of force \u2014 have fallen substantially over the past three decades, records show. In 2019, police across the state solved about 9% of such crimes. In San Francisco, police have solved roughly 3.6% of larcenies reported in 2023, a slight increase from the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Store thefts are often going to be caught on video or witnessed by employees. And yet, people who do this have about a 1 in 30 chance of facing any kind of consequences. It\u2019s no wonder the problem is rampant where the punishment is non-existent.<\/p>\n<h3>The Root of the Problem<\/h3>\n<p>A bit later in the story we get some refreshingly honest admissions from a homeless man about why shoplifting is so common: Homeless people need food and drugs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPanhandling doesn\u2019t get me enough for my food and drugs,\u201d said Antonio Ortega, 33, as he spread out his latest haul of spices, coloring markers and socks on Turk Street. \u201cYou think I like shoplifting? Hell no. But most of us doing it are doing bare essentials to get by.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said he often gets questioned by security guards, \u201cbut they can\u2019t do anything, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s brutal out here,\u201d he added, explaining that he needs to boost to buy food and drugs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Big surprise. Homeless junkies only care about getting more drugs and they\u2019ll steal to get what they need. How would this problem be helped by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-police-solving-3-6-of-reported-larcenies-in-2023\/\" title=\"SF Police solve only 3.6% of larcenies in 2023.\">giving people free housing<\/a>? It wouldn\u2019t really. These same people would still be junkies and would still be stealing to feed their habit. And the city of San Francisco would still be turning a blind eye to all of it even as their retailers close from the pressure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosis-taiwan-visit-made-it-harder-for-biden-to-end-trumps-china-tariffs-commerce-secretary\/\" title=\"Pelosi\u2019s Taiwan Visit Made It Harder for Biden to End Trump\u2019s China Tariffs: Commerce Secretary\">rampant theft<\/a>. An Australian owned retailer called Coco Republic announced Wednesday it was closing after just seven months.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[It] has become clear that downtown San Francisco is no longer a viable option for Coco Republic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/long-list-of-companies-pulled-out-of-russia-this-week\/\" title=\"Long List of Companies Pulled Out of Russia This Week\">flagship store<\/a>,\u201d the spokesperson wrote in an email, adding, \u201cIt was a difficult decision and one that was not taken lightly. The recent closings of\u00a0Whole Foods,\u00a0Nordstrom,\u00a0Saks Off 5th\u00a0and\u00a0Anthropologie\u00a0show that ours is not an isolated problem in Union Square, and we hope the city will be able to address the issues that are making it so challenging to do business there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course crime isn\u2019t the only factor here but it\u2019s certainly a factor and one for which the city seems to have no solution. For every person you see doing drugs on the street, they are stealing daily to keep this going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoplifting might as well be legal in San Francisco. A story published today by the San Francisco Chronicle confirms that only a tiny fraction of petty theft cases get solved in the city. At a Metro PCS store near City Hall in San Francisco, clerk Maria Gonzalez said shoplifters invade at least twice a week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930534,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[13219,8016,26702,3967,9822],"class_list":["post-1930533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-3-6","tag-8016","tag-larcenies","tag-police","tag-solve"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930533","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=1930533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}