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2024-12-30 at 9:55 PM UTCParadise
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2024-12-30 at 10:03 PM UTCPair of dice
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2024-12-30 at 10:17 PM UTC
Originally posted by Landy Pamm Yep, San Francisco Bay Area is such a piece of shit. Look how shitty everything is here
Looking down from the Grizzly Peak (Oakland Hills) of Golden Gate Bridge and SF Peninsula
Same area looking down at Downtown San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge with sun setting across from Mad Mark's Place "The Bulb"
Why the fuck would I want to live in such a PIECE OF SHIT area I can drive in 10 minutes on my Motorcycle straight up Marin Ave. I am so Blessed to live here. You have some fucking nerve to call this area a Piece Of Shit. You KNOW NOTHING about the bay area outside of what the Idiot Box tells you.
GET FUCKED OLD MAN!
and merry Christmas you grinch fuck <:)
Christ Is King. Repent EVERYONE
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2024-12-30 at 10:32 PM UTC
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2024-12-30 at 10:37 PM UTC
Originally posted by Landy Pamm Paradise
Now nowhere in San Francisco is safe from crime — we’re the proof, say shop owners in ‘quiet’ areas
San Francisco’s crime spree has taken a new twist: it has exploded out of its shattered downtown into areas residents thought were still safe — despite its mayor claiming the city is beating the criminals.
Mayor Landon Breed touted declining crime numbers in January, saying in a statement that “our work around public safety is making a difference.”
But police statistics analyzed by The Post show that the city’s previously quieter residential areas are instead being hit hard with burglary — and shopkeepers in those areas told The Post they’re living on edge.
While crime in the notorious Tenderloin district and the surrounding downtown area is down compared with this time last year, burglary is up by 44% in 2024 in San Francisco’s more residential Taraval police district. Burglaries are also up by 19% in Ingleside and 6.2% in the Richmond neighborhood.
“It never occurred to me that crime would be a problem. It’s a nice, safe area on the edge of the city,” Taraval-area candy shop owner Diane Zogaric told The Post. “But that doesn’t seem to matter anymore.”
The city’s “doom loop” downtown has caused half of retailers to flee the area, citing crime and safety concerns, with progressive policies on criminal justice widely blamed for the exodus.
This week Macy’s became the latest retailer to call it quits, saying it will close its giant Union Square department store.
But in residential areas, shop owners told The Post they fear for their future.
Chinese restaurant owner Andy Yang said: “We can’t just pack up and leave. We spent decades of our youth building and cultivating our businesses. We have families here. We have properties here.”
‘It shouldn’t be dangerous to work in a candy store.’
Diana Zogaric bought Shaw's Candy, her kids' favorite childhood joint, in 2020.
Diana Zogaric was punched repeatedly at the front door of her candy shop. 
The shopowner was punched multiple times in the face by her assailant.
Diana Zogaric never imagined that she was making herself a target of crime when she bought the candy store her children had loved when they were young in 2020. But she’s since been robbed and violently assaulted.
Zogaric, 53, took over Shaw’s Candy, a local favorite in the West Portal, when it came up for sale in August of 2020.
The first major crime was in March 2023, when her front door was smashed at 5 a.m. and a robber strolled in to grab her cash box containing $600, costing $1,500 in repairs. It was a forewarning of the sharp crime rise in the police district of Taraval, of which West Port is a par.
“The police who responded were great, but I don’t think that they prioritize crimes of that nature,” Zogaric said.
Then in September of 2023, when Zogaric asked a homeless man bothering customers outside her store to leave, he shoved her in the chest, causing her to stumble backwards. “He proceeded to punch me numerous times in the head, and all the while I was backing away, he kept punching me,” she said.
He forced his way into the store, punched the manager in the face, and pushed an elderly woman customer. Four male bystanders managed to restrain him until the cops came.
The man is now being detained in a mental facility for two years after getting a schizophrenia diagnosis, and a restraining order will prevent him coming into the store when he is released, but she remains shaken.
“I find myself recoiling on the streets,” she said. “I kind of just wanna leave San Francisco.”
“The biggest fear for me now is for my employees. As awful as what happened to me was, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if that happened to a teenager,” she said.
Zogaric cannot let employees work alone for fear of their safety, and the city’s $18.07 minimum wage means her margins are stretched thin.
“It should not be dangerous to work in a candy store. But, here, it is.”
“I’m pretty left wing,” Zogaric said. “But I still think criminals need to be prosecuted. There’s no fear because crimes aren’t being taken seriously in San Francisco.”
Andy Yang’s Chinese joint Kung Food in the Park police district has been battered by vandals and burglars seven times since the pandemic.
The 35-year-old says the stress was so bad that he had an unexpected heart attack in December at the gym and is now recovering from bypass surgery.
“I’m just trying to keep my head out of the water,” the father of two, aged 4 and 18 months, told The Post. “I’m living in constant fear as a small business owner in San Francisco.”
“All the money that I’ve lost has just taken a toll on my life and my health,” he said.
“It’s the crime, it’s the vandalism, it’s the theft, it’s the beggars harassing customers. You can’t run a business like that, and I think I just collapsed under the stress of it all.”
Yang’s restaurant, in the North of the Panhandle neighborhood, has been broken into once every six months since 2020, costing him $15,000 in repairs, $3,000 in looted cash, and untold amounts in stolen food.
He used to leave takeout orders on his front table, but thieves snatched hundreds of dollars worth of food at a time. Once a waitress chased someone who stole takeout and got punched in the face.
“The restaurant business itself is a very thin margin business — especially with inflation — so all of this affects us tremendously,” he said.
Even though he pays $10,000 a year for insurance, his claims have never reached his deductible, leaving him to pay out of pocket and to stop filing entirely.
Throughout his string of burglaries, Yang contacted local city officials for support but says all he got in return was “some patronizing BS from like an intern.”
“I don’t blame the police for not doing their jobs. Their hands are tied,” he said.
Out of five burglaries, two perpetrators were caught by police, but, when he showed up to court, he learned that the district attorney had dropped the case.
Although crime is down this year in the Park district, he says, “If the rates are down here, I don’t feel any less miserable.”
Yang has posted about crime on social media and been sent nasty messages telling him to just leave San Francisco.
As crime continues to rage on, Yang says it’s important for the Chinese American community in San Francisco to speak up for themselves.
“Every small business owner I know is frustrated,” he said. “Everyone has an exit plan. Everyone is praying for Jesus to come to save us because clearly the elected officials aren’t going to.”
‘This is not the city I grew up in’
Michael Hsu, a 35-year-old San Francisco native, was thrilled when he bought his shoe store, Footprint, from his retiring boss in early 2020. But, when he took over the shop in the Sunset neighborhood, part of the Traval police district, things instantly fell apart.
“Two weeks later, we had to close because of Covid-19,” he said.
When Louis Vuitton was looted in San Francisco’s Union Square that June, Hsu knew he had to board up his business to protect his merchandise, so he shelled out $2,500 for in-demand plywood and depended on online business for more than seven months.
But, when he finally re-opened in 2021, he was barraged by crime like he’d never seen before: three major break-ins and repeated shoplifting which cost him around $50,000 in losses but resulted in zero arrests.
In 2021, burglars used a blowtorch to bypass the sensor which would alert him to broken glass and got away with over $25,000 in merchandise — a brutal toll considering his average sale is $100.
Later that year a thief, dubbed the Butt Crack Bandit, scaled scaffolding to get into his shop and got away with around $10,000 in shoes.
“It’s hard to sleep peacefully at night because you’re always wondering when the next call from the alarm company or the police is going to come,” Hsu, who relies on Footprint to support his 3-year-old daughter, told The Post. “The bottom line is we’re in San Francisco, so you have to be ready for anything.”
Even though he’s had to pay $1,500 each time his glass door was broken, it was below his insurance’s $2,000 deductible.
Then his insurers dropped him this month for filing too many claims — forcing him to pay 40% more to another insurer.
It can take a few weeks to get the glass he needs to repair his storefront, so now he orders two at a time, preparing for the next break-in.
“You can walk into a store and just walk out with anything, and there’s little that’s going to happen to you,” he said.
On New Year’s Eve thieves bashed in his windows and caused $20,000 in losses and repairs.
Even though the police arrived in under five minutes, the perpetrators got away — because, thanks to a local rule, the police aren’t able to pursue perpetrators of property crime if nobody is in harm’s way.
“That’s when I called the mayor’s office and said, ‘You gotta be kidding me. Watch this video. It doesn’t look good on you. It doesn’t look good on San Francisco. Let’s change this.”
Mayor Breed is now backing Proposition E, a ballot initiative that would allow police to pursue perps of property crime, like those who robbed Hsu.
“I don’t like to talk s–t about my city,” he said. “I love San Francisco. That’s why I want to work with policymakers — because we can do better, we’re better than this. We have to take back our city.”
Source: https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/now-nowhere-in-san-francisco-is-safe-from-crime/ -
2024-12-31 at 1:19 AM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Source: https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/now-nowhere-in-san-francisco-is-safe-from-crime/
worst part is they don't get punished because it's not their fault, they're possessed by evil socioeconomic issues
but if you choke one out on the train for attacking people you get your life ruinedThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-31 at 2:03 AM UTCPoliticians did this not the people.
and corporate greed. they need drug addicts in order to fund their programs (medical groups involved with Rx companies)
all kinds of Government level corruption which also leads to police and other corruption. no doubt kick backs and self interest.
an overwhelming majority of people don't act this way. and the people who do DONT OWN HOUSES OR REAL ESTATE HERE -
2024-12-31 at 2:19 AM UTC
Originally posted by Landy Pamm Politicians did this not the people.
The people voted for the politicians. You get the leaders you deserve. The overwhelming majority voted for the politicians you blame. It is on the people. They voted for defund the cops. They voted for decriminalizing crime. They voted for allowing illegal aliens "sanctuary". This is why the city is shit, I don't care how many cute photos you post.
and corporate greed. they need drug addicts in order to fund their programs (medical groups involved with Rx companies)
all kinds of Government level corruption which also leads to police and other corruption. no doubt kick backs and self interest.
an overwhelming majority of people don't act this way. and the people who do DONT OWN HOUSES OR REAL ESTATE HEREThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-31 at 3:33 AM UTC
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2024-12-31 at 4:20 AM UTCDemocrat cities deserve to rot in corruption and crime. They asked for it, they got it. Now they can just shut up about it.
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2024-12-31 at 4:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker The people voted for the politicians. You get the leaders you deserve. The overwhelming majority voted for the politicians you blame. It is on the people. They voted for defund the cops. They voted for decriminalizing crime. They voted for allowing illegal aliens "sanctuary". This is why the city is shit, I don't care how many cute photos you post.
I agree with this sentiment. It;s why I hate my country not just the politicians but especially the people.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-31 at 4:46 AM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker The people voted for the politicians. You get the leaders you deserve. The overwhelming majority voted for the politicians you blame. It is on the people. They voted for defund the cops. They voted for decriminalizing crime. They voted for allowing illegal aliens "sanctuary". This is why the city is shit, I don't care how many cute photos you post.
I honestly think these polls are rigged. there are a lot of Conservative who hate these people. I run into them all the time.
No one voted for Sanctuary city. they voted the cunts who clearly had an agenda to get undocumented in to be more of a vote for them to keep their jobs in power. but the real money is kickbacks and all kinds of insentives. happens on the Republican side too. history of Republican scams
look at Trump. he is agreeing with the H1B all of a sudden to bring in "More qualified people". the people are just as qualified here in the USA as they are in Asian countries, the thing is the Indian people only make a 1/4th of the money, they stick like 20 of these people in a two bedroom apartment.
an American will expect 120k a year and profit sharing. the Indians wont get more than maybe 50k a year at best. they get like 20 dollars an hour and share apartment to save money.
They fucked the people who voted for them. instead of Outsourcing like NAFTA Clinton they just imported the NAFTA wage scale to work locally
it's fucking hilarious as shit. You won't do shit. You're getting fucked by Trump now -
2024-12-31 at 4:49 AM UTCSunnyvale is a known town of once middle class or lower middle class Apartment dwellers. they used to be cheap. it's in Silicon Valley.. it went from mostly poor whites and Hispanics to 20 Indian techie guys living in these 2 bedroom apartments and they get like 3200 a month for them if not more.
it's fucking sick. and you can't blame the Indians get angry they're being used but at the same time they have to remind themselves they're in a better place. for now. -
2024-12-31 at 5:03 AM UTC
Originally posted by Landy Pamm I honestly think these polls are rigged. there are a lot of Conservative who hate these people. I run into them all the time.
No one voted for Sanctuary city. they voted the cunts who clearly had an agenda to get undocumented in to be more of a vote for them to keep their jobs in power. but the real money is kickbacks and all kinds of insentives. happens on the Republican side too. history of Republican scams
look at Trump. he is agreeing with the H1B all of a sudden to bring in "More qualified people". the people are just as qualified here in the USA as they are in Asian countries, the thing is the Indian people only make a 1/4th of the money, they stick like 20 of these people in a two bedroom apartment.
an American will expect 120k a year and profit sharing. the Indians wont get more than maybe 50k a year at best. they get like 20 dollars an hour and share apartment to save money.
They fucked the people who voted for them. instead of Outsourcing like NAFTA Clinton they just imported the NAFTA wage scale to work locally
it's fucking hilarious as shit. You won't do shit. You're getting fucked by Trump now
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2024-12-31 at 1:12 PM UTC
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2024-12-31 at 1:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by Landy Pamm Yep, San Francisco Bay Area is such a piece of shit. Look how shitty everything is here
Looking down from the Grizzly Peak (Oakland Hills) of Golden Gate Bridge and SF Peninsula
Same area looking down at Downtown San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge with sun setting across from Mad Mark's Place "The Bulb"
Why the fuck would I want to live in such a PIECE OF SHIT area I can drive in 10 minutes on my Motorcycle straight up Marin Ave. I am so Blessed to live here. You have some fucking nerve to call this area a Piece Of Shit. You KNOW NOTHING about the bay area outside of what the Idiot Box tells you.
GET FUCKED OLD MAN!
and merry Christmas you grinch fuck <:)
Christ Is King. Repent EVERYONE
Um nice views does not a city make...It's the shithole people and shithole local gov that do that. -
2024-12-31 at 2:06 PM UTC
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2024-12-31 at 8:31 PM UTCimplying shithole is saying the area is in itself a physical mess. not just political or people occupying it and doing illegal shit
the place is a gem that is getting shat on and being allowed to be shat on by the local government. probably to drive out old money and power. this is why they allowed it
