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| Don Surber - Left denies there's a shoplifting boom |
| 2021-12-27 |
| [Don Surber Blog] The Daily Mail reported, "A woman, armed with a pickaxe, was shoplifting at a Los Angeles Rite Aid. "Shoppers videotaped the bizarre scene on Thursday as the woman walked up and down the aisles with the weapon in hand. "She reportedly threatened employees and customers and warned that she would come back as she walked out with a basket full of merchandise. "It comes as LA and cities throughout California continue to be plagued by robberies amid the state's zero bail policies." There's your democracy. Californians voted to decriminalize shoplifting. Californians elected pro-criminal DAs. Shoplifting and the outright looting of stores are rampant in California. But just as the media called massive riots by Democrats in city after city mostly peaceful protests in 2020, the media is denying the theft. In the epicenter of the new lawlessness, the San Francisco Chronicle is the bulwark for thieves. It published on July 20, "San Francisco’s shoplifting panic desperately needs some context" by Adam Johnson. He began, "You no doubt have seen The Video. A man, in broad daylight, brazenly empties the shelves of a San Francisco Walgreens and casually rides a bike out of the store with little intervention from a nearby guard. "The lawlessness, the complete societal breakdown. A shocking sight that offends the basic notions of law and order. "When I say you’ve no doubt seen the video, I am absolutely confident you have, because a recent analysis by the media watchdog FAIR found that the video — taken by ABC7’s Lyanne Melendez — garnered over 300 articles of media coverage around the world and millions of clicks, from the United Kingdom to Mexico to France and beyond. "That’s a sizable amount of coverage, indeed, for a single instance of petty theft." If someone stole his bicycle, I doubt he would consider the theft petty. On October 15, the Chronicle reported, "Is shoplifting forcing Walgreens to cut back in S.F.? Data on the closing stores puts the claim into perspective." Relying on city government data, the Chronicle claimed, "But the timing of Walgreens’ decision led observers to wonder whether a $140 billion company was using an unsubstantiated narrative of unchecked shoplifting to obscure other possible factors in its decision." |
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