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Originally posted by Il Cattivo: Funny how San Francisco, where a lot of silicon workers live, will put up with that crap, but the Peninsula, where the silicon barons live, won't.

Larkspur is woke to felony-sharing and Palo Alto is more law-and-order?

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Domestic terrorism. Democrats will lose the House and Senate as Law and Order in 2022 becomes the campaign mantra.

Wednesday - California Apple store hit in latest smash-and-grab in broad daylight
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cal...nia-apple-smash-grab

Friday - Best Buy store in Minnesota looted by 20-30 suspects; all get away
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bes...-suspects-burnsville

Friday - Thieves target Home Depot in California, making off with hammers, crowbars and other tools
https://localnews8.com/news/na...ars-and-other-tools/

Portland car theft at all time high.
Homeless camps are a gathering place for these stolen cars.

Let’s Go Portland.

Vote blue, you get robbed, too.

Watching the above video- They deserve it. They got what they voted for and supported. What fool would of thought otherwise.

Funny the cities they compared Portland to were all liberal bastions.

I don't have to hope it gets worse- It will because of their actions. Oh they legalized hard drugs- I wonder what that'll lead too?

I don't know that it's fair to blame the voting public in every instance. Knowing what we now know about how the voting process can be and has been manipulated how many of these city leaders were installed rather than voted for? We just never before now were so aware of the fraud. We just scratched our heads wondering how people could be so stupid to vote for these people.

Hey citizens/subjects of Portland - elections have consequences.

^^^
And they no doubt STILL vote leftist democrat. I agree- these people brought this lawlessness upon themselves through progressive wokeness. The crimes perpetrated are being committed by cockroaches that have dovetailed nicely with the stupid “free and open” society they’ve created for them to flourish in free of consequences.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Funny the cities they compared Portland to were all liberal bastions.

You might be amazed at the sheer number of liberal municipal bastions that cite Portland as some sort of gold standard for the way cities should be. Depending on one's perspective, the comparison might be entirely appropriate.

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Originally posted by kidcop:
Just slamming the cell door on more people doesn't seem to be working out so hot.

Maybe you should talk one-on-one with some crime victims to see how they feel.

Honestly, better jail conditions aren't a high priority for me. I see being jailed as voluntary (don't drive drunk, etc.), and jails/prisons aren't supposed to be like health clubs.

that said, you are welcome to try to change my mind. But it's going to be a tough road because for most everyone in jail, there is a crime victim someplace.

Shit, the problem as far as I see it is that there aren't enough criminals in prison. The evidence of that is all around us.

Yeah, it’s really “bad” in Portland, OR with their homicides, with low/mid-60s, with a population of 650K. They’re complaining too much.

Louisville, KY (Jefferson County) has a population of 630+K. So far this year, as of today-Nov 27, Metro PD stats have us at 185 homicides, averaging about 1 every 2 days, and the year ain’t over yet. Last year was 173. Year before that was 160+. And we are 200+ short on police manning, and the Corrections Dept (Jail) is also understaffed.

DemoCrap cesspools; all.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
^^^ One, I'm blown away that they would drive an hour and a half to two hours just to loot another RealReal store.

Two, Palo Alto is down in the heart of Silicon Valley. Funny how San Francisco, where a lot of silicon workers live, will put up with that crap, but the Peninsula, where the silicon barons live, won't.

Three, they're getting careless. Stealing $15,000 worth of goods is way beyond a misdemeanor, even in present-day California.

Has there been any information that people/vehicles ID'd were at both Larkspur and Palo Alto locations or, is just speculation to fill print-space/air time?

I don't think this rash of mob-robberies is anything other than social media-fueled frenzy that's apart of 'hood/ghetto culture...instead of flash-mob dance routines, its now flash-mob burglaries at places people wound't have imagined years ago. The last 2-years, has shown a media soft-peddling if not outright acceptance of 'street culture': emotion-based rationalization, racial politicking, and predatory behavior which has spilled beyond the boundaries of the 'hood. Combine that with excuse making politicians and had-Left DA's who have excused nearly all criminal behavior, it's an acceptance of the bottom.

It's organized crime. Those people can't use $15,000 worth of that crap. It's stolen en mass and sold by organized gangs. We've seen the warehouses full of the ill-gotten gains.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Has there been any information that people/vehicles ID'd were at both Larkspur and Palo Alto locations or, is just speculation to fill print-space/air time?

From the article linked back a page:

Police in Palo Alto announced Wednesday that two women had been arrested in connection with a Sunday night attempt to steal items from the RealReal clothing boutique downtown.

Police said 30 to 40 people arrived in some 20 cars and tried to break down the glass front door but it held. A security guard reported the effort and the crowd fled as police arrived.

The women were stopped in a car where police said they found at least $15,000 in clothes from a second RealReal location that was burglarized in Larkspur earlier that night.

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The Palo Alto police [south of SanFran] stopped the car the same night there was a robbery within the same chain in Larkspur [north of SanFran]. Stolen goods from Larkspur were in the car stopped in Palo Alto. If it walks like a duck . . .

Excellent article in today's WSJ.com [$4/month/year on special, replaced my WP.com, well worth it]. Reflections on George Floyd, Kyle Rittenhouse, Darrell Brooks; great writing, great editing.

I've hosted a pic of the article for personal non-commercial use only. A choice excerpt:

Waukesha Killings Make the Media Colorblind Again
The contrast with the Kyle Rittenhouse case illustrates the double standard.
By Jason L. Riley • Nov. 30, 2021 6:21 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...e-agenda-11638310613 (firewall likely)
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The same press outlets that portrayed Mr. Rittenhouse as a white supremacist have had remarkably little to say about the racial identity of Darrell Brooks, the black suspect in Wisconsin who is accused of plowing his car through an annual Christmas parade last month and killing six people, including an 8-year-old boy, all of whom were white. Given the suspect’s history of posting messages on social media that called for violence against white people and praised Hitler for killing Jews, you’d think that his race and the race of his victims would be relevant to reporters. Race is all anyone would be talking about if a white man had slammed his vehicle into a parade full of black people. Yet suddenly the left has gone colorblind.

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Give Leftist Thugs All the Due Process They Can Handle

Kurt Schlichter 



https://townhall.com/columnist...-can-handle-n2599709

There was just something on the local news a few days ago about passing laws to make it harder to sell stolen goods on the Internet....

Laughable!

Nothing mentioned about how Kimm Fox's office raised the threshold for the felony theft charges, and even if caught under her new guidelines, it's almost impossible to get charges approved through her office.

And the bad-guys know this.

Even better, use juveniles to do the crime here in Cook Co. They'll be out before the paperwork is done.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by kidcop:
Just slamming the cell door on more people doesn't seem to be working out so hot.

Maybe you should talk one-on-one with some crime victims to see how they feel.

Honestly, better jail conditions aren't a high priority for me. I see being jailed as voluntary (don't drive drunk, etc.), and jails/prisons aren't supposed to be like health clubs.

that said, you are welcome to try to change my mind. But it's going to be a tough road because for most everyone in jail, there is a crime victim someplace.

I guess I read kidcop’s post differently. I’d agree that just slamming the cell door on more people isn’t working. I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t keep slamming those doors, and maybe even slamming them more, but that that alone is not enough.

If you look at folks who end up in thug life, very few of them thought that they had any other realistic choices. The majority came from single family homes partially caused by our government’s policies.

I don’t have the solution(s), and I am fully confident that our government could screw up a wet dream. However, it would seem to me that at least attempting to come up with policies that would encourage stable families and help folks see opportunities to get ahead doing honest work while continuing to slam the cell doors on those who choose the thug life might be more successful than what we are doing now.

Just a thought…

Don't look for that to happen where Leftists are in charge. They benefit from all the crime, and want more of it.

flashguy

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Originally posted by slosig:
it would seem to me that at least attempting to come up with policies that would encourage stable families and help folks see opportunities to get ahead doing honest work while continuing to slam the cell doors on those who choose the thug life might be more successful than what we are doing now.

Just a thought…

The first step would be to start cutting government handouts. The war on poverty was a failure but eliminating poverty wasn't even the goal. The goal was to make the black family without a male head of household, the black family was quite traditional pre-LBJ. His idea was to take the husband/father out of the house and destabilize the black family in order to cause them to be dependent on the government to keep "those blacks (he didn't use word blacks) voting democrat for the next 200 years..."

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Don't look for that to happen where Leftists are in charge. They benefit from all the crime, and want more of it.

flashguy

Nope, they love the mayhem. I bet that fucker who owns amazon loved the riots and COVID: his brick and mortar competition was looted and destroyed and people locked down went shopping online.