All posts tagged: San Francisco

Citing crime, San Francisco supermarket closes after only being open for a year

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After only being open for a year, Whole Foods has announced it will be temporarily closing down its supermarket in downtown San Francisco, Breitbart reports. The store cited rampant crime and concerns about the safety of its employees as the reason for the closure. The San Francisco Standard provides more details: One of the largest supermarkets in Downtown San Francisco—the Whole Foods Market at Eighth and Market streets—intends to shut down at the close of business Monday just a little more than a year after the store opened, company officials told The Standard. […] A City Hall source told The Standard the company cited deteriorating street conditions around drug use and crime near the grocery store as a reason for its closure. [… ] The beleaguered grocery store on Market Street slashed its operating hours due to “high theft” and hostile visitors in October of last year, according to one of the store’s managers. And in November, the store enforced new bathroom rules after syringes and pipes were found in the restroom. With the situation …

After a few days at a San Francisco school, 13-year-old Ukrainian refugee wants to return home because it’s safer

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A 13-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled her country because of the Russian invasion now wants to return to Ukraine because of the violence she experienced firsthand at a San Francisco school, The Blaze reports. California has gone woke and violence and crime is not only running rampant in its streets but apparently also in its schools. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Yana stated that during her first month at Marina Middle School she allegedly had her cell phone stolen and several students threaten her. During classes, she witnessed students disrupting and disrespecting teachers and causing disturbances. When none were disciplined, Yana realized this is normal behavior at her San Francisco School. When the school board refused Yana’s parents’ request to have their daughter moved to another school, Yana, over fears for her safety, has refused to attend any further classes and wants to return to Ukraine. The Blaze provided a quote from the San Francisco Examiner on a recent incident at the same school Yana attended: Teachers, counselors and security staff who …

Former drug addict states San Francisco’s syringe exchange program keeps people in bondage

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A former drug addict recently stated that San Francisco’s syringe exchange program is doing nothing more than keeping addicts “in a state of bondage,” Fox News report. The city’s woke council has provided 20 locations across the city that distribute syringes, pipes and tinfoil to help users maintain their addiction. The program also provides naloxone, which helps reverse overdoses. The city’s goal is to provide a warm, safe place, without judgement, where people can safely continue living their life of addiction. Fox News interviewed, Ricci Wynne, a former addict and drug dealer, who broke free of his addiction and now promotes drug abstinence. “They should restart rethinking their policies here because this harm reduction site, it just doesn’t work,” Wynne said. “They need abstinence-based treatment, they need to get clean, they need help to get back on the road to recovery.” READ: San Francisco addicts are kept ‘in a state of bondage’ by syringe exchange programs, former drug user says

Poll: 45% of San Franciscans have been affected by crime

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A poll conducted by the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that over the past five years, 45% of the residents of the city stated that they have experience theft and 24% said that they have been threatened or experienced violence, RT reports. The same poll revealed that 65Overall, 65% stated that the city is going downhill. Of course, what else could you expect when you elect progressive politicians who believe the real victims are the criminals and are treating them with kid gloves. Realizing there is a rapid deterioration taking place in the city, its progressive lawmakers are now asking for suggestions on how to bizarrely fix a problem they created with their soft-on-crime approach to justice. Writing for the Daily Mail, David Marcus explains: In the City by the Bay, 1,700 people have died from drug overdoses since the beginning of 2020. That is nearly 700 more fatalities than the county suffered from the Covid pandemic. Mayor London Breed says she’s now ready to get serious about the problem, by putting an end to open-air drug markets, …

Tax revolt in California?

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It’s hard to believe that there are actually San Franciscans talking about a tax revolt against their enlightened politicians. But there are. Apparently, among other things, small business owners are tired of having to sweep up human feces from the front of their stores, before they open their doors. The Blaze reports: Small business owners in San Francisco’s Castro District are demanding city officials take action to address the growing issues of crime, drug use, and homelessness in the area. The Castro Merchants Association sent a letter to San Francisco city officials saying members of the group plan to stop paying taxes if the city doesn’t do more to address the issues. In the letter, the association said people who are living on the streets “regularly experience psychotic episodes” and have vandalized storefronts and harassed business owners, employees, residents and tourists, reports The San Francisco Chronicle. READ: San Francisco businesses threatening to not pay taxes unless officials clean up city Of course, there are different ways of conducting a tax revolt. Some people are just …

Poll: 40% of San Francisco residents plan to leave the city?

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A recent poll of people living in San Francisco by the city’s Chamber of Commerce indicates they are tiring of the woke politics that has governed the city for the past several years. It has gotten so bad that 40% of those surveyed said they are planning to leave the city over the next few years. The two major problems leading to this decision are the city’s rapidly deteriorating homelessness problem, and its rising crime rates. Earlier this year, the city council voted to defund its police force by $120 million, while in May, the San Francisco police department reported that car burglaries in May were up 753% over May of last year. The city’s homelessness problem has gotten so bad that city residents state it is now the city’s number one problem, as homeless people are now openly taking drugs and defecating on the streets, forcing the city to set up a ‘feces patrol’ to keep the streets clean. The poll revealed: 80% of residents say that crime has increased. 70% stated that the …