Woke crime laws bite Californians in the pocketbook

 Washington Examiner:

Retail stores already under siege from pandemic restrictions and supply chain hiccups are increasingly facing another threat to their bottom lines: organized theft.

The problem was on vivid display over the weekend when dozens of looters stormed into a Nordstrom department store outside San Francisco wearing masks and wielding crowbars. As many as 80 suspects snatched armloads of products and sped away in more than 20 waiting cars on Saturday. Police have so far arrested just three suspects in connection with the raid.

Thieves smashed the windows and looted the high-end goods of a San Francisco Louis Vuitton store over the weekend as well, creating chaos in a popular area of the city.

WALGREENS IS ABANDONING SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE LEFTIST POLICIES CREATED A SHOPLIFTING CRISIS
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The scenes are increasingly familiar in San Francisco and beyond, with shoplifters taking advantage of more lenient prosecutors, overstretched police forces, and local laws to clear shelves of goods they then attempt to sell, often online.

In a survey of retailers published in August, the National Retail Federation, which describes itself as the largest retail trade association in the world, found that store owners have reported a significant increase in organized retail crime.

Nearly 70% said they had seen organized retail crime increase over the past year, according to the survey, citing “COVID-19, policing, changes to sentencing guidelines and the growth of online marketplaces for the increase in ORC activity."

Some stores have responded to the spike in professional shoplifting by simply shutting their doors.
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There is more.

The stupidity of Woke crime measures and defunding of police is being exposed in real-time and it did not take that long.  There are some indications that these theft rings are associated with BLM which was behind the anti-police movement following their riots in 2020.  Whoever is behind seems to understand that the left's hamstringing of law enforcement and the election of Soros-backed prosecutors has made crime profitable.  It is more evidence of the decay of civilization in California and elsewhere on the liberal left coast.

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