CNN's Kyung Lah reports that more merchandise is being locked up in San Francisco drug stores and grocery stores to curb rampant shoplifting. #CNN #News
“It’s become a police state” Dude this is literally the opposite of that, this is what happens when you go soft on crime in a country where the citizens are batshit crazy
Watch the segment a few years ago with Don and Fredo denying the crime problem in NYC. They said the basis for this was they went out the other night and saw no crime, and people even came up to them and 'thanked them" for doing such a "good job".
@@davidbelway6076 ... in Blue cities. You, literally, melted down about Trump, and destroyed your own neighborhoods. Blue cities and districts represent almost all violent crime and gun crime. YOU'RE the problem.
@jacobl that's exactly what they want to think and say. When they implement your social credit score and its low, and they plaster your face on the board or blur it. Some will say exactly the same thing about you. Think of the bigger picture.
The funniest thing is that all the thief has to do is ask the employee to open the case, then just ransack the entire shelf. The employee can’t do anything. 🤡
@@johnwattdotcahow exactly did they fail? Retail employees have nearly no power to stop thieves. Nothing can be done to stop someone from grabbing product at a register if they pretend to pay or just run off with stuff
Live in a 3rd world country yet no one dares walk out of the store without paying! Entitlement and lack of self respect and being too soft to robbers is what drives these people! Work!
Yep. Many 1st world countries are going backwards with respect to crime. They are soft on violent crimes (in my book strangling someone is violent 😢), but in some places they are pushing to imprison men for practically looking at a woman the wrong way. What a world 😂
"I don't understand why coffee is locked up. It's like a police state!" That dude has to be the biggest idiot in the city. How do you not know about SF's shoplifting problems, and how is NOT prosecuting people for stealing make it a "police state"?
Oh please. The people don't want "mass incarceration". So, shop lifting, auto burglary and petty larceny are no longer prosecutable crimes. What do you expect?
This is a hard choice. Voting GOP, there will be no abortion under any circumstance, no freedom of religion; there will be concentration camps and genocides for the non-whites, especially Asians.
The guy who said in response to seeing Pete’s coffee locked up that San Francisco has become a police state, needs to get back on his meds. He’s out of touch with reality.
Poverty and high cost of living is what leads to rampant theft. More police activity does not prevent crime, it only increases violence within communities which leads to rioting instead of just shoplifting. You cannot solve poverty-related crimes with police funding; that has literally never worked in any city. Washington D.C has spent the most on police and corrections per capita and yet they have one of the highest crime rates in the United States. The fact of the matter is that crime only becomes more organized and more violent when you increase law enforcement presence. If you want to solve shoplifting, then you need to fix the American economy so that people can afford food, housing, and other products. Instead of taxing the crap out of labor wages, focus on taxing multi-billion dollar companies that hoard wealth.
@@valoredramack9117no, crime leads to poverty. I’ve been poor and never stole, never assaulted people. Being poor isn’t an excuse to steal fake eyelashes, makeup, cough medicine (for abuse) and other things. Stop making excuses
I'm liberal but this is madness- if there are no consequences, there's no incentive to stop. Fix this! Most people in the Bay Area are sick of this. FIX IT!
@@Mr.H-zu1jc So, the human rights of the business owners and all of the residents of the neighborhoods where the stores are being robbed and shut down are less important than those of the thievs?
@@jeremeyunger6568 you can solve the theft problem in a nonviolent way. Bc yes, their lives matter more than a store. Plus, I’ll take you ppl seriously AFTER you give white collar crime the proper attention, that is that white collar crime is far worse than petty theft. Care to take a guess at which demographic is stealing the most from the American ppl? Hint, it’s rich white men. The real crime is on Wall Street, not Main Street.
So, the reporter's takeaway is that "people are hungry"? Yeah, hungry, starving people need ice cream, frozen dinners, $14 coffee, fake eyelashes, and nail polish to survive. What a fool. These people aren't stealing in order to stave off starvation.
This is what happens when allow criminals to get away with murder, putting limits on what’s you can steel is an absolute joke. As long as it’s under a $1000.00 you won’t get locked up, that’s ridiculous. You need to hold people responsible.
And….in literally the next news segment, a poll will show that 65% of Republicans will convince themselves to vote for a convicted felon for President in 2024, and not see that these 2 issues are connected. Those folks will automatically think of themselves as better. Either the rule of law applies to all, including the most powerful and connected, or it’s hard to convince even a street dope fiend that they should respect it 🤷♂️.
When that man threw the bananas, it just shows the contempt that these crooks show towards law-abiding citizens and the very rule of civilization and its laws. California is truly lost, it has fallen.
I live in a country where the social issues highlighted in this video are far worst yet no one would dare to walk into a shop and leave without paying. America has an entitlement problem.
The employees should sue Walgreens and the state for PTSD or something. That has to be very stressful to deal with those policies.. It has to effect their mental health
Can’t blame the stores. It was government policies prohibiting people from stopping thieves that brought us to this point. Hell, in Chicago the police weren’t allowed to chase a fleeing criminal.
@@craigday1759 What's so funny about employees trying to make living and having to watch their back because Democrat's choose criminals over law & order?
It’s not funny. The situation. I laughed bc, is it Walgreens fault ? I think not. It’s very serious. I get it. You have to stand up and be willing to kill bc there not gonna back down. If I owned a store and people were stealing. I’d have pepper stay, a bat, a baton, 100 prove alcohol in a small bottle and light ‘ em up. I would do anything so make sure my family doesn’t go without. Fight fire with fire ! If your trying to feed your family and someone is taking that from you, I’m sure the judge will understand
Well you can thank all the people in charge for this. These people know that getting caught is no problem so they keep doing it. When you decide to lock them up and throw away the keys they can’t do it anymore because they will be behind bars.
problem is republican red states keep exporting criminals to California. They know they can game the system abd blame the government because they know people can't fight criminals who have free guns
@@sebcw1204have you? You’re here talking Bs telling people to do research as if you’re on a moral high ground. Disappear and don’t show up unless you have facts.
@@sebcw1204 I think you missed my point, criminals know they won’t stay in jail long at all for crimes like this so that’s what makes it worth it. If you don’t get harder on crime it will always go up like it is.
my girlfriends mom works at a Kohls in the midwest. The other day a group of people came in and apparently threw a pack of firecrackers causing all the employees to panic and think there was someone shooting so they all ran off the floor to the breakroom or out the back of the store. The thieves then grabbed a ton of stuff and ran out in the chaos. She said their store gets hit a couple times a week
I don't endorse shoplifting, but I'm no longer against it. People are just taking back what the grocery chains had stolen from them for the past few years, and I have absolutely no problem with that. Greedy grocery chains need to be stopped and give back what they had stolen from the communities so people can eat again. We should stop hoping someone or the government would do something about it. That time has passed, and now it's time for us to ask ourselves: what can we do to stop these rich grocery chains from being more and more greedy!
my friend car windows got smashed last weekend when we went to twin peak, every parking lot you go to, there are broken window glass everywhere, crime ridden city.
People also just give up on reporting it since the Police are unlikely to respond and if the criminal gets caught, they simply get re-released back out on the street.
You know darn well why a little luxury items are locked up and would be stolen. Don't act all high and mighty like you don't want more out of life than just a roof over your head and to not be hungry.
I worked in retail years ago and if I caught a shoplifter my employer would almost act like I did something wrong. They seem to be trying to walk this line where they want loss prevention, but also don't want the confrontation and risk that often comes along with it, and it's just not working... I live in Ohio btw, this is not a California thing.
all stores have theft insurance - and the insurance cartels know they are required to have it - and FYI: 40% of all food production and in stores goes to waste - stores are FORCED by their contracts to throw perfectly good food away after stamped expiration dates - rather than donating it to food banks or the homeless ~ all perfectly safe to consume ~ its a system of evil and greed, nothing less
It's a Shame what has happened to this city. You would think that with the cost of living this wouldn't be a problem. But if you're not punishing people for these crimes what do you expect?
Demonrat leadership and their soft on crime policies don't work!! Defund the cops doesn't work.Nothing Demonrat do helps anyone except criminals. San Fran is getting what they voted for.
Punishment is only half. I wouldn’t steal even if there was no punishment. I never have. So many adults talk of how they stole things as a kid. I don’t get it. I can’t imagine wanting to be a thief and laughing about it
If you let them steal, guess what, they come and steal.. firing employees for trying to prevent it makes it even worse. Companies MUST rethink their policies !
@@aishabintabubakr4944 yes i believe if they would be stopped and hold accountable the theft would drop. But since they know they can just walk in and out, they using it. Of course
You can't speak for a corporation. The reason employees get fired and hate human resources and legal departments is because they're risking themselves for someone else's insured property. That's a dumb and simple minded move. Walgreens and other retailers don't want minimum-wage paid, vigilante employees people getting injured or murdered. Let the security guards, police, and prosecutors handle theft. If they keep getting robbed and insurance premiums get too high, then the business model will change. If you risk your own life over someone else's property, then you deserve to be fired.
My local Walgreens in Florida gets hit at least twice a week and not by a hobo stealing a pizza, they come down 2 or 3 at a time grab trash bags from the shelf and go thru different sections (make up, cough and cold, toothpaste, electronics, laundry, etc) employees hate their job so much that they have fun watching them. We all know the rule is "do not confront" but there are protocols that deter theft (a simple "do you need help?" Would make thieves think about it twice) employees are underpaid and overwoked they don't give a fk anymore. And yes it happens a lot on "tough on crime" Florida
I see some people saying this is a Democrat vs Republican issue. What's the political party in power in Denver and do you think their political ideology plays a role in the problem?
Here in south west Florida (deep god fearing, gun loving, family values, tough on crime, etc county) the shoplifters are so empowered that they ask an employee "where can I find trash bags?" Then they open the box of trash bags and use them to fill them up with whatever they are stealing
@@FirstLast-qw7gh Denver has always voted Democrat. Last Republican Mayor in Denver was 1963. Now, that's not to say it is a Democrat thing because 10-15 years ago you could walk downtown Denver at night without feeling like you would be robbed or hassled by the homeless population.
Why did they blur the face of the criminal? The faces of "normal" shoppers were not blurred. Not a rhetorical question. If I didn't know better I'd think that CNN was protecting the criminal.
Know what I hate? The fact the cost of living keeps rising, wages keep falling and the middle class keeps shrinking. I also hate how the drug crisis is contributing to this and forcing normal people to steal food just to survive.
Lol yeah cause this crime doesn't hurt the poor that now have no grocery store in their area to work at or shop at. This is exactly what you do to destroy any opportunity for the poor you steal everything and then you have nothing but empty stores and even more poverty.
I just watched a guy walk out of the store with a basket full of tools in my blue sanctuary city and the store manager said there was nothing he could do about it and the police wouldn't show up. 🤣😂
All we need is a Rich Billionaire to use a bunch of tech and Martial arts to beat up poor people and put them in Hospitals they can't afford so its a never ending cycle.
In blue cities, the criminal has more rights then the law abiding taxpayers. Then they whine when businesses leave the city. So sad, time to wake up people.
@@beefree5215 If you want to be an idiot online it's up to you. That includes thinking in terms of red or blue. Americans act like Americans, everywhere they go.
Poverty and high cost of living is what leads to rampant theft. More police activity does not prevent crime, it only increases violence within communities which leads to rioting instead of just shoplifting. You cannot solve poverty-related crimes with police funding; that has literally never worked in any city. Washington D.C has spent the most on police and corrections per capita and yet they have one of the highest crime rates in the United States. The fact of the matter is that crime only becomes more organized and more violent when you increase law enforcement presence. If you want to solve shoplifting, then you need to fix the American economy so that people can afford food, housing, and other products. Instead of taxing the crap out of labor wages, focus on taxing multi-billion dollar companies that hoard wealth.
The reported crimes are down. The actual crimes are up. Businesses stopped reporting the crimes because nothing was done about it. Ask the victimized business owners.
If America looked after its poorest and most vulnerable citizens instead of leaving them homeless and starving, they wouldn’t need to steal food. Introduce a welfare system like the UK with social housing and money to buy food and your crimes will reduce 😮🇬🇧
Poverty and high cost of living is what leads to rampant theft. More police activity does not prevent crime, it only increases violence within communities which leads to rioting instead of just shoplifting. You cannot solve poverty-related crimes with police funding; that has literally never worked in any city. Washington D.C has spent the most on police and corrections per capita and yet they have one of the highest crime rates in the United States. The fact of the matter is that crime only becomes more organized and more violent when you increase law enforcement presence. If you want to solve shoplifting, then you need to fix the American economy so that people can afford food, housing, and other products. Instead of taxing the crap out of labor wages, focus on taxing multi-billion dollar companies that hoard wealth.
San Francisco needs to significantly increase the punishment for theft. 30 day automatic jail sentence for any theft. I know it's disproportionate punishment but at this point it's the only thing that is going to reduce the theft and businesses leaving the city
imagine for a moment, a dystopian world, where the homeless and hungry are forced into slave labor camps and jail cells because they try to get a morsel of food that only the rich can afford ~ imagine for a moment...
While your people were there, the store got robbed 3 times. How many of those were reported to police? Are crime rates down or have stores given up reporting the massive number of crimes?
We have the same crap in Portland. Crazy homeless people attack good citizens, but all the city worries about are the violent vagrants, not the taxpayers. There is this crazy woman, who keeps attacking elderly Asian men, putting them in the hospital, and they just keep releasing her. She should be in jail.
I work in a grocery store in Texas and theft is everywhere. You can't say anything or do anything for fear of loosing your job . Plus management half the time doesn't want to do anything because they don't want to get in trouble. Recently they had an employee at another get fired for videoing a shoplifter and taking pictures of his license plate . It isn't just in San Francisco.
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They say its because people are hungry. I call bullshit its because theres no one who can stop them without being charged themselve for assult. Its happening in all the Democraticly ran cities. The criminals have more rights that do the victims of the criminals....
When they changed the regulations that disallowed employees to stop the shoplifters because they didn't want to pay workers compensation if they get hurt is when the thefts took off. The large retailers try to say it's about protecting their workers but really it's about the worker's compensation. If they really cared about their workers they would hire a full time security guard who qualified to use force and arrest if needed. Guess what, most companies consider that to be to much of cost. Feel for the honest employee's who have to watch this happen in their store daily.
People don't understand what words mean anymore. Police State, genocide, violence, Nazi, communist... all these words/phrases have very specific meanings. They don't just mean situations or people you don't like.
Shoplifting is no doubt an issue, but big responsibility has to be on shops itself... Introduction of self checkouts has propelled shoplifting to levels never seen before.
Lived in SF in the early 2000's. Homelessness, mental cases, and property crimes was a big problem back then. Had my car broken into quite a few times (one time in a public garage - lol). You learned real quick how to not make eye contact and walk to the other side if you encountered a crazy person which was almost an everyday thing. And I had visitors from other citites, including NYC who commented how absolutely filthy the city was when they would walk on Market or wander into the fringes of Tenderloin - stepping on human excrement was a regular hazard. But despite all that, it was IMHO a great city to live in (if you can afford the high rents) - shopping, eating and the year round mild weather - just can't be beat. But it's now clearly taken a turn for the far worse. I can't see any reason to move back which is fine with me because I don't think I can afford how much rent is there now.
And yet Nancy Pelosi is continually voted back in. She has done so much for the city of San Francisco obviously. No one wants change obviously. Just sit back and watch the destruction of the city and Nancy just gets wealthier. She doesn't care about anyone.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with the nightmare of a capitalist system. We live in, and the increasing amount of poor people in homeless people. Truth is this place sucks.
Don't you think it's kinda weird how this is happening all over the place all at the same time? Did all the district attorneys in the country get together and agree to not prosecute certain crimes?
Poverty and high cost of living is what leads to rampant theft. More police activity does not prevent crime, it only increases violence within communities which leads to rioting instead of just shoplifting. You cannot solve poverty-related crimes with police funding; that has literally never worked in any city. Washington D.C has spent the most on police and corrections per capita and yet they have one of the highest crime rates in the United States. The fact of the matter is that crime only becomes more organized and more violent when you increase law enforcement presence. If you want to solve shoplifting, then you need to fix the American economy so that people can afford food, housing, and other products. Instead of taxing the crap out of labor wages, focus on taxing multi-billion dollar companies that hoard wealth.
Next....businesses are going to turn stores into a Window service only? Like Fuel... pay first drive-thrus.... pay at one window and pick up your items at another window Everyone has a phone (or most of us)..... Walgreens, CVS, almost everyone else has an app that can be downloaded. Ppl could shop on the phone when they're at the coffee shop down the street and pay for their stuff on their phone to be ready to pick up when they finish their coffee, few pages of a book and walk to the store's pick up window.
This is a symptom of gross socioeconomic inequality, lack of affordable housing, ease of access to opioids, and just general lack of social safety net. This is an America problem, and San Fran is "tip of the iceberg" and most visible of this problem. This is present in Red states, they are just good of sweeping it under the rug, out of sight and out of mind.
👉 All over California crimes have been on the rise..the policies to fulfill political agendas of the current Democratic governments in the State level as well as Federal level are the key reasons for this chaos in California; and also in New York !
How can CNN be surprised after years of reporting on what's happening in major cities throughout country, is CNN still anws organization of significance
The main culprits here are the lack of a social safety net, a system favoring the rich at the expense of the working class, and wages not keeping up with inflation.
I was born poor. Migrant family picking apricots and garlic. I never stole a thing and didn’t use my poverty as a crutch to be a thief. Joined the navy, graduated from UT Austin, reported 168k in income last year. SJWs like you make me sick.
