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Jun 16, 2022Liked by Nancy Rommelmann

"Retail theft is bad" as a statement is meaningless. Picking your nose in public is bad. The question is how should society respond to retail theft?

The overwhelming majority of private citizens in this country (and apparently San Francisco) believe the answer is enforcement of the law. That means arrest and potentially incarceration. That's why Chesa Boudin is out of a job right now.

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Nancy, thank you for posting Starchild's comments. Inadvertently they illustrate the hermeticism of so many. She writes:

"Retail theft is bad, but it is not dangerous to ordinary shoppers, any more than public nudity is dangerous, or shooting up drugs is (to anyone except the user). They simply offend certain sensibilities."

Does this person think it's only CVS suffering from these thefts? And what of the workers in these shops or the mom/pop stores?

BTW, Can Starchild or anyone else name that Republican who funded the anti-Boudin campaign? And didn't huge number of voters for the recall come from the poorer areas of San Francisco whereas the rich/white cossetted areas voted against the recall?

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"...Then there is her protagonist and fellow journalist Erica Sandberg, who doesn't see the difference between government thugs standing on a corner shooting and murdering people in cold blood..."

That's a lie, at least in modern America. She fails to give specific examples. The Ferguson lie of "hands up, don't shoot!" never happened (cop's gun had been grabbed at) but it's persisted as a BLM criminal-apologist slogan. Thugs of all colors who get killed while resisting arrest tend to dig their own graves. Smart people comply with arrests and work through the courts later.

The claim that shoplifting is generally harmless is also a lie. They could easily kill if they feel like they've been "made" by a bystander, and many burglaries have ended in deaths. Who the heck would feel safe trapped with a flash mob?

In the end, naive compassion for criminals rarely ends well. Leftists like Boudin keep seeing far too much good in human nature, especially from criminals. When was the last time crooks cared about the rights of their victims? These policies are based on utter naivety.

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There’s a lot in this alternate view point I just don’t understand; equating murderous government thugs shooting people with shooting dope by choice and overdosing is only one.

Nancy, I know you have close ties to Portland. How is the city’s drug decriminalization going? Other than a flurry of articles last year when it was adopted, I’ve seen nothing in the press since.

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