I call BS on this article. I'm an SF-grown left-leaning SJW type, and this seems like propaganda to me.
Yes, the exec said, “Maybe we cried too much last year,” but that's all he said. If you listen to him in full, instead of taking one phrase out of context, it's clear that he's not making some big admission or anything like that.
> It was a remarkable admission, retail experts said.
Which experts?
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I've lived here all my life, nearly half a century now, and things have never been like this. There are tent cities, people shooting up in the Muni stations and on the street, actual human feces on the sidewalk. The Tenderloin in particular has become a lawless zone, even the longtime residents are scared.
This town has always been nuts, and even a little dangerous, since the Gold Rush, but at least it was fun. What we're seeing today is dystopian.
If the Progressive bloc can't see their own problems they're not going to be able to make, uh, progress. Progressives insist that the recall of Boudin was all due to Republicans and the Police, they ignored democrats and particularly the Asian-American political bloc and told us that we were tricked by the nasty R's and the lying police! (Asian American political groups in SF were against Boudin because they believed he was soft on anti-Asian hate crime in the wake of the pandemic & lockdowns. A lot of Democrats just felt that he wasn't able to do his job. Some of that because the rank-and-file cops didn't like him, but mostly because he was kinda nuts.)
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Anyway, two things can be true: Walgreens overestimated and overstated how bad shoplifting was, and shoplifting and crime is a big problem in SF right now.
Yes, the exec said, “Maybe we cried too much last year,” but that's all he said. If you listen to him in full, instead of taking one phrase out of context, it's clear that he's not making some big admission or anything like that.
> It was a remarkable admission, retail experts said.
Which experts?
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I've lived here all my life, nearly half a century now, and things have never been like this. There are tent cities, people shooting up in the Muni stations and on the street, actual human feces on the sidewalk. The Tenderloin in particular has become a lawless zone, even the longtime residents are scared.
This town has always been nuts, and even a little dangerous, since the Gold Rush, but at least it was fun. What we're seeing today is dystopian.
If the Progressive bloc can't see their own problems they're not going to be able to make, uh, progress. Progressives insist that the recall of Boudin was all due to Republicans and the Police, they ignored democrats and particularly the Asian-American political bloc and told us that we were tricked by the nasty R's and the lying police! (Asian American political groups in SF were against Boudin because they believed he was soft on anti-Asian hate crime in the wake of the pandemic & lockdowns. A lot of Democrats just felt that he wasn't able to do his job. Some of that because the rank-and-file cops didn't like him, but mostly because he was kinda nuts.)
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Anyway, two things can be true: Walgreens overestimated and overstated how bad shoplifting was, and shoplifting and crime is a big problem in SF right now.