re: In-N-Out Burger Is Closing Its Only Oakland Location Due to ‘Ongoing Issues With Crime’

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Y’all are so gullible.

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No, you are the gullible one

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Residents, frustrated with rising prices and lengthy wait times at stores for employees to unlock cabinets so they can purchase everyday items such as deodorant and toothpaste, have said they want to see changes made to Proposition 47, a decade-old ballot measure that classifies nonviolent property crimes that do not exceed $950 in value as misdemeanors.

The criminal penalty for nonviolent retail theft is typically up to six months of jail time, but critics claim that only a few offenders ever serve their full sentences, and many do not even show up to court. Proposition 47 also fails to target repeat offenders, critics have complained.

For a while, lawmakers ignored the problem. Now, under a national microscope and with big businesses relocating, they are desperate for a fix.

Newsom, a Democrat, announced a package of bills that addressed retail theft this month.

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Lynn Melillo, who sits on the board of the California Grocers Association, said at a hearing last month that their “biggest” spending goes to security guards.

“It feels like there [are no consequences],” she said. “We feel we stand alone because we do call the police … they’re not always responsive.”
What the data do show is that overall felony retail theft was up 16% in 2022 compared with 2019. A closer look showed commercial burglary specifically was up 13%. Commercial robbery, which includes thefts in which force is used or threatened (like some smash-and-grab thefts), was up about 13% in that same time frame.

And when it comes to misdemeanor shoplifting, the data show a 29% spike in 2022 vs. 2019,

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Organized retail theft wiped out several Alaska stores when we experimented with "catch and release."

Youre simply naive.

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Y’all are so gullible.

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I suppose businesses not hiring armed security to stop "smash and grabs" could be considered bad management. So, they cleaned up the crime and homelessness overnight in Oakland and SF? I've not heard that.

Cubbies at least you are consistent, consistently wrong, but consistent.

So suddenly all these successful chains, are all making bad decisions and hiring bad management, hmmmm.

And who is telling this, some guy from william blair investment, why not ask JP Morgan, Citibank, Wells Fargo, some of these banks that are dealing with the investments of these chains versus someone who is probably being paid by a think tank.

Look at you, defending criminality once again.

At least you are consistent in your hatred of law abiding citizens.