With hotels closing, businesses leaving and malls collapsing, downtown San Francisco has turned into a ghost town.
And much of it can be blamed on a Democrat-controlled city council that has defunded the police and embraced a soft-on-crime policy where hardened criminals are often released the same day they are caught.
Shoplifting is so rampant, that some stores are even putting candy behind lock and key, the Daily Mail reports.
The Daily Mail interviewed a security guard at a Walgreens store that is still open in downtown San Francisco, who explained what he faces on a daily basis:
‘Theft is constant. For my company, this is the busiest store in San Francisco. We used to have two guys here but now it’s one so a lot of the time, I’ll be dealing with one person and someone else will be taking things. I can’t get them all.’
As if to prove his point, a bearded homeless man caught stealing hours earlier attempted to enter the store. Told he couldn’t enter and blocked, he screamed: ‘Excuse you! I have every right to be here’ before swiping a brownie and an apple from a nearby counter and sprinting off.
It was one of four attempted or successful thefts DailyMail.com witnessed at the pharmacy within a 15-minute period and as a result, everything from chocolate bars to a $4.99 bottle of cheap Moscato wine was either locked up or security tagged.“
The sad thing is that people who want to earn an honest living will lose their jobs and livelihoods because of the rampant lawlessness perpetuated by city politicians.
OpentheWord.org 
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