2023-07-28 19:57:00
In a half-hour filming at the Wallgreens supermarket chain in San Francisco, a CNN crew came across three cases of store robbery. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.
Moreover, the supermarket workers did not try to fight with any of them, the expert notes. For California, shoplifting has become commonplace after the decriminalization of all thefts in the amount of up to $ 1,000. Now every San Francisco store faces an average of 12 robberies a day. In addition, Wallgreens has to hide almost all of its goods in lockable racks. Because they steal everything – from coffee and sweets to meat and alcohol.
Many retailers can no longer stand it and are curtailing. The Whole Foods Market premium supermarket chain, clothing stores Nordstrom, Banana Republic, Office Depot, Old Navy and H&M are leaving San Francisco. Internet service provider AT&T is closing its downtown flagship store. Two large hotels, Hilton San Francisco and Park 55, are also under threat of closure.
The entire center of San Francisco is filled with homeless people and drug addicts – there are already more of the latter than there are high school students in local schools. The number of cases of drug overdose increased by 41% in a year. The population is also leaving San Francisco en masse, for example, mobile activity is only 32% of the figures for 2019. For the sake of fighting the drug mafia, the National Guard has already been sent to the city, but this is unlikely to stop the rapid decline of San Francisco.
“The city budget deficit this year will be a record $1.5 billion. San Francisco is rapidly turning into a new Detroit, while it is only 1-2 generations ahead of other US metropolitan areas on the path of degradation. They are becoming less and less habitable, embodying the logical outcome of the liberal restructuring of America, ”stats Dudakov.
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