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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bay Area resident here.

These are organized crime rings. They utilize luxury online resale sites, Amazon and other Internet options to sell the stolen goods. It appears that online shopping has made organized shoplifting much more lucrative than selling stolen goods from the trunk of a car in an alley. The misdemeanor law has been in place for years but the large scale shoplifting is relatively recent but has corresponded to a growing market in people searching for deals on luxury items online. Crime rings small and large get prosecuted when caught.

Police have not been defunded in the Bay Area.

CVS is shutting down stores because no one buys things there. They are closing stores across the country. In fact many businesses that have been declining will start closing. They have higher debt from the pandemic and if interest rates rise they don’t have access to cheap money to keep going.

Homelessness is a problem in the Bay Area. The biggest problem is meth. When pot became legal the drug cartels moved to meth and found it was cheaper and faster to produce and easier to smuggle the product around so they flooded the streets. Meth changes the brain over time and makes psychosis permanent so now there is a segment of people who will never truly function independently again. 
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That’s not true. Oakland (where the majority of crime is happening) police have absolutely been partially defunded. A lot resigned and they weren’t allowed to replace them due to a hiring freeze on officers, despite the crime spikes. That’s the reason why one council member in Oakland is begging for them to hire new officers, and the Oakland chamber of commerce was begging for the highway patrol to be stationed in Oakland temporarily, because they don’t have enough police officers to keep the city safe.

And in SF, there just aren’t enough officers to be able to respond to the shoplifting (no spare officers for the foot patrols they would need to have) and why would the police bother working hard to arrest these people anyway when they will just be released straight away. Maybe after the recall the crime will start to go down as criminals will hopefully start to be taken off the streets.

And Safeway is not closing their doors at 6pm in the city because “nobody bus things there”. Rampant shoplifting is driving the store closures. Saying otherwise is just not being honest.[/quote]

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