After Proposition 47 encouraged governments not to prosecute shoplifting, and the city responded by failing to prosecute the same, upscale retailer Neiman-Marcus is pillaged, Target is closing its doors at 6pm, and Walgreens has closed 17 stores altogether in San Francisco. Hopefully voters respond appropriately by showing the current crop of municipal leaders the door.
Update; in Chicago, apparently 36 of their police officers have been shot or shot at so far this year. While thankfully good medical care, ballistics vests, and the John Woo grip have kept fatalities down so far, this isn't going to help morale or retention on the force, either--not to mention behavior. If you're primed to believe you're going to be shot at, you're primed to be ready to shoot back.
The courts around Chicago are apparently doing their part as well by freeing violent offenders (accused and convicted) at a high rate. Because nothing says "public safety" by letting people accused of murder one out on bail, I guess. Maybe I'm getting old, but I remember the days when courts thought that those indicted for murder were worth keeping in jail. Something about a public safety hazard or something like that, if my senile mind remembers correctly.
The left is, by their failure to prosecute crime adequately, reminding us why Clint Eastwood's character became so popular in the early 1970s. Hopefully the survivors of their victims will remember in the next election.
2 comments:
Bike!!! You're back!! Hello, old buddy.
Democrat voters are religious voters, so don't hold your breath waiting for the blue bureaucrats to be voted out.
Thanks--and one ray of hope I have is that a couple of decades ago, San Franciscans did indeed vote to be a bit harsher on the homeless, as it was too much for them to deal with. So hopefully the combination of excrement and needles on the streets combined with nothing on store shelves to buy will get their attention.
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