“Progressive Paradise”

San Francisco Safeway stores have installed security gates at self-checkout kiosks in an attempt to stop thieves.

Shoppers using the self-service lines at a number of Safeway stores in the Bay area now need to scan their receipts on an automated plastic gate before they can leave the store.

High levels of theft at Safeway stores and other retailers across San Francisco have prompted merchants to increase security measures.

Shocking new footage has shown zombified tranq addicts swaying on the sidewalk in Philadelphia – following presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s visit to the ‘warzone’ Democrat city.

Multiple spaced-out individuals were seen buckled over, with no control of their limbs, on the trash-filled corner of Kensington and Allegheny Avenues.

The Kensington neighborhood, ‘ground zero’ for the city’s drug epidemic, is often seen strewn with trash and addicts injecting drugs in the middle of the day.

Congress should exercise its powers and take over

If you had to pick the exact day when the young, affluent, and oblivious of Washington DC were forced to accept that they live in a failed city, 22 July 2021 would be as good a choice as any. That was the day when swell DC brunchers scurried out the doors of the fashionable French restaurant Le Diplomate near DuPont Circle as gunshots rang out in the streets. The incident was symbolic proof of something many Washington residents had long known but feared to articulate in public: that no matter who they were, where they were, or what time of day, they were no longer safe in their home city.

Rapper 50 Cent says LA is about to get outta control — thanks to so-called bail reform.

The hip-hop “Outta Control” icon took to Instagram to bemoan the ongoing crime crisis in the City of Angels — and said it’s about to get even worse after a judge recently reinstated a controversial no-bail policy there.

“LA is finished,” wrote the 48-year-old rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, on Thursday. “Watch how bad it gets out there. SMH [shaking my head].”

Chaos erupted in the Mission District of San Francisco, where more than 100 people, mostly minors, were arrested at the annual ‘Dolores Hill Bomb’ skateboarding event.

Hundreds took over Dolores Street to ride their skateboards – or anything with wheels – down a huge hill near Dolores Street.

Officers described the event as unpermitted, non-sanctioned and one that has previously taken over streets and caused mass property damage.

Another wonderful day in the utopian city!

Chaos erupted in the Mission District of San Francisco
Over 100 ppl arrested at the annual Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding event

If they're put in jail, the gov pays the cost. If they're not prosecuted, the public pays for the damage! pic.twitter.com/gm7L46KFla

— Ronald Kelly (@RonK3l) July 10, 2023

I moved to San Francisco in 1984. My husband and I loved our city for many years, but we sold our home and moved 70 miles away to Healdsburg, California, in November 2021. We had been spending time there during the pandemic, going back and forth to the city, and it sealed the deal for us: We wanted to move permanently.

Seriously? pic.twitter.com/0l0OdmZJyq

— Ontario Proud (@ontarioisproud) July 7, 2023

City officials blame truancy and zero interest from police for ‘kids doing these really awful things’

Baseball-wielding gangs of children are mugging mothers and nannies on the school run in the latest crime wave to hit San Francisco.

Last week Noe Valley, also known as “stroller valley” because of the growing population of young families, endured 11 phone robberies that are believed to have been carried out by the same gang who are targeting women picking up children from school.

San Francisco may soon get 24/7 driverless cabs. City leaders are fuming.

SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon here, a driverless car jammed itself between a lane of traffic and a painted red curb for several minutes. The Waymo vehicle parked itself diagonally, its rear sticking into the travel lane, as it waited for three passengers to hop in.

Homeless people have been pictured slumped over in the streets of Seattle and openly shooting up drugs, after the city’s officials chose not to make public drug use illegal.

Earlier this month, the Seattle City Council voted not to pass legislation that would have allowed the City Attorney’s Office to prosecute public drug use cases.

The move would have brought Seattle into compliance with the state’s new drug possession law, which makes the crime a gross misdemeanor.

Coming to a Toronto near you!

The air outside the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall smelled like pot when Chuck Mahone and his girlfriend took a walking tour of downtown in late May. The streets were dirty. Homeless people used drugs openly and relieved themselves under blankets.

Inside, unruly teens roamed the mall – Mahone wondered where their parents were. Retail staffers were so focused on security that they had little time for real customers.

“Ugh. Westfield should be shuttered,” Mahone wrote in a Google review. “It’s time as an energetic center of fine retail in SF is long passed. Dated, understaffed. A haven for homeless and disruptive youth.”

Progressive drug policies have led to fentanyl use soaring, with violence rising too

Aman dressed in dirty rags emerges from “fentanyl island”, watched as he shuffles past by Seneca Scott, an Oakland native who rarely travels to this strip of blighted wasteland underneath an underpass without a Smith & Wesson at his hip.

“We don’t have rule of law in Oakland right now,” Scott says as he tours a city that is perhaps America’s most left wing, but is littered with drug encampments which have become a breeding ground for violent crime.

A photo plastered on the empty windows shows it as it used to be: a colorful branch of Gap surrounded by crowds of cheerful tourists and not a drug addict or scrap of litter in sight.

Today, San Francisco’s once bustling Union Square and downtown area is a shadow of its former self: rows of empty stores, sparse crowds even on peak weekend shopping days and nearby hotels – including a huge Hilton – unable to cover their mortgage payments.

The historic Flood Building, a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, stands largely empty: Gap has gone along with nearly every other business in the property with the exception of a tired branch of Dr. Martens and an Urban Outfitters store offering 70 per cent discounts.