For someone who keeps promising to empower small businesses, as she endlessly proclaimed during the recent debate, Hapless Harris might want to clean up her home state instead.
Ideally in conjunction with Pugnacious Pelosi, who should be torn away from her millions and forced to face the music of what their terrible policies have done.
Including yet another business closure, this time of a market that had served the city for 35 years.
Bayside Market, a grocery store run by David Pesusic, has closed as a result of the uncontrollable crime across the city, including rampant theft – and possibly worse – in his store.
“I can’t prevent the homeless coming in, I can’t prevent shoplifters, I can’t control PG&E’s rates … How do you justify staying?” Pesusic remarked.
Sadly, you can’t justify it. Especially when the city is intent on catering to criminals and illegals.
It’s truly an astonishing development …
First, businesses were closing across California due to the pandemic. Now, they’re closing due to crime.
Almost as if the Democrats are trying to disempower Americans as much as possible, in the most insidious manner possible.
However, that plan may backfire, at least to a degree … Not only has Pelosi’s homeland driven out small businesses, but it’s also scaring away large businesses as well.
Hilariously, some of these large businesses are ultra-woke.
Target, which has become notorious for its endlessly obnoxious transgender campaign, in particular “tuck friendly” swimwear for girls, has, rather ironically, faced the music in San Francisco as well.
In fact, Target is “going broke” outside the stock market, thanks to the incredibly lenient tenets of California’s Proposition 47.
Passed in 2014, Proposition 47 is notorious for determining that thefts of merchandise valued under $950 comprise mere misdemeanors, rather than felonies.
Combined with “zero bail” programs and other pro-crime policies, it is not at all surprising that California has become a subsequent hot spot for crime.
And, as Target would soon learn, its blanket support of BLM and other militant causes would achieve exactly nothing in terms of protecting the retailer – not to mention its employees – from violent criminals.
Hilariously, Target is now being threatened by the government for daring to report crime.
Apparently, Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood is incensed that Target has dared to phone the police to report crime.
In fact, Wood is so bothered that she is now aiming to “punish” the retailer for daring to call out the criminals who routinely rob from its shelves, with impunity.
“[Wood] has threatened to punish a Target store for repeatedly reporting thefts at the store in the crime-ridden state. Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood’s office said the retail store located at 2505 Riverside Blvd. in Land Park will be fined and slapped with a public nuisance charge if it continues to call police when there is a theft at the store … City officials warned that an administrative fine would also be charged,” the Daily Mail reported.
Well, that’s nice. Someone should inform California politicians that punishing businesses with variously gratuitous “fines” and “fees” will never achieve sufficient revenue for the onslaught of illegals consuming American resources.
Moreover, Target is hardly in the wrong for making several calls to the police … considering that thefts have increased more than fourfold since 2021.
In 2023, there were 375 calls related to theft, robbery and shoplifting in 2023.
These calls represent an increase from about 175 calls in 2022 and 87 calls in 2021, and they spanned three different Target locations in Sacramento.
Despite the enormous rise in crime, Wood is apparently more fixated on punishing businesses that report crime, rather than the criminals themselves.
Alexander Gammelgard, who serves as president of the California Police Chiefs Association, was a bit taken aback by Wood’s approach, to put it mildly.
“I … (was) also surprised that anyone would ever attempt to make a nuisance case out of somebody calling to report a legitimate crime,” Gammelgard asserted.
In the land of “defund police,” seems any crime reporting is a “nuisance.”
Unless, of course, one is reporting a break-in at Empress Pelosi’s compound.
Frankly, it’s a real shame that the government only cleans up San Francisco when a communist authoritarian from China shows up to hobnob with Big Tech bigwigs and bungling Biden.
Author: Jane Jones
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