My 2¢ on the Walgreens discourse: Police data doesn’t back up the shoplifting case but a million anecdotes do. If it really is true that large scale shoplifting is driving the closures but goes unreported these days, shouldn’t we be getting to the root cause of that?
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I went to the Ocean Street Walgreens last summer and was told they’d get get hit daily 3-4 times. The cashier said the only time they reported it was when someone was walking down the aisles and stealing stuff and coughing on people, claiming he had COVID.
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If that’s true and none of it is being reported then 1) the shoplifting case can never be independently verified 2) shoplifting can’t be addressed and 3) the lack of confidence that something can be done (or anyone will even respond) is alarming and should be investigated.
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“We don’t report it, so there’s no record and you just have to take our word for it” is bad but “we don’t report it because we don’t think anything will be done about it and there’s no follow up” is much more concerning.
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Worse than all of that — and what allows @LondonBreed, @chesaboudin, and @sfbos to bullshit their way around the issue — is that San Francisco voters are STILL in denial about how single party rule is crippling the city.
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