There are so many news reports now on rampant crime in major cities that, at this point, you can’t be blamed if your eyes glaze over when you see them. There are only so many clips of thugs shoplifting, doing “street takeovers,” or shooting at cops that you can watch. At some point, even though it’s horrible, you get numb to it. But one recent report from CNN on property crime in San Francisco stands out. We highlighted part of this clip a couple of weeks ago on the show, but here it is in full context:
This Walgreens is supposedly hit by shoplifters more than any other Walgreens in the United States. People are walking in and out with merchandise at will. Shoplifters robbed the store three times while CNN was inside. As I said, you have seen portions of that clip when it went viral several weeks ago. But we never played the end of that segment. Here it is:
First, CNN trots out a city supervisor to inform you that the causes of all this shoplifting are “systemic.” It’s sort of like racism in that way. He’s implying there’s no way to solve it. But of course you should pay a lot of consultants and government agencies a ton of money to try to solve it anyway. That’s what every bureaucrat means when they talk about…
