SFCityBear said:

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dajo9 said:

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SFCityBear said:

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SFCityBear said:

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dajo9 said:

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Not even when I leave the suburbs and go into NYC. Brooklyn just experienced the fewest summer shootings ever recorded. When I lived in Manhattan over 20 years ago I was scared to go into Brooklyn. Go watch Desperately Seeking Susan from the 1980s and observe that depiction of Manhattan. Unrecognizable. Wonderful to stroll around in those parts of Manhattan today.

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He asked about theft. You responded with an anecdote about summer shootings.

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2 of 6 sentences were about summer shootings. And the rest?

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A movie depiction and you enjoying strolling around Manhattan versus your experience in Brooklyn before it was stratified. So fabulous.

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Sorry you all live in such ****holes. Have you considered moving to New Jersey?

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Have you considered cleaning up some of those holes? Step one would be voting the favorite rascals out and replacing them with people who know how to clean up holes. It's not rocket science.

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We don't have those problems where I live

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If you have anything of value, the odds are that those problems will find you, eventually, and try to take what you have. I hope they leave you unharmed while doing so, but that isn't always the case.

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You don't need to tell me. I've been mugged at gunpoint before. Of course, that was about 25 years ago.

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I think I do need to tell you, not that it would do any good.

As for your being mugged at gunpoint, well I've been mugged by a punk with a knife. He grabbed my jacket at the collar with his left hand and I grabbed his jacket at the collar. I saw a flash in the moonlight of a knife in his right hand, as he tried to stab me with it. We grappled for what seemed like forever, when I finally forced him to drop the knife. I stomped on it with my boot, hoping to hold it down and keep him from grabbing it back, when the blade broke in half. The punk saw that and ran like a scared rabbit.

I don't like to be condescending, but what you neglect to mention is that crime, and therefore any crime statistic, is fluid. Criminals are not all stupid. When crime is not profitable anymore in their current location, they will move and take their game to another location. It happens within cities, counties, states, and so forth. Crime can lose its attraction in an area, if they have stolen everything of value, or if they have terrorized the general population and obtain most or all the wealth of the population that way, or if the area becomes too hot for them in which to operate, such as more police on the streets, more perps getting shot by police, more arrests convictions, jail time, and execution of convicted murderers, too much competition from other criminals or gangs, or too many of the population arm themselves for self defense. So please remember, that if crime is less in Manhattan, it is not therefore, less in the nation, generally.

In my city, San Francisco, where I have lived for 8 decades, except for 4 years in Berkeley, and 4 years in other cities, we have more crime than I have ever seen here. I think we have a permissive society now, where many actions that were once crimes have been decriminalized. Beginning with Covid, police began leaving the force, for that and also because governments would not back up and protect their police as much as before. The Democrats began to defund police departments, leading to more attrition and less hiring. Over the last five years or so, police have virtually disappeared from our streets. Recently, I saw a policeman giving a driver a ticket for a moving violation. That is the first one I've seen in 5 years. In fact that is only the second police car in patrol on the streets of San Francisco in 5 years. Police officers are usually found in police stations, doing paperwork. We used to see them in Starbucks having coffee, but not now. We used to see them on foot patrols, walking a beat. I haven't seen that here in 20 or 30 years.

We have all sorts of new crimes we never heard of before. We now have "Home Invasions", brought to us by gangs from Asia. We have "smash and grab", which we invented ourselves, simple shoplifting carried on by bigger groups of perps, with a dose of violence to scare the customers and employees. We have brought back from the grave the art of train robbery. With the huge increase of home deliveries, criminals have figured out how easy it is to follow the delivery guy and grab some goods from your front porch. We had thugs increasingly targeting of Asians for violent attacks, followed by the recent rebirth of targeting Jews for violent attacks.

Now everyone is a criminal. If you drive a car, you are a criminal. Do you always come to a full stop at an arterial stop sign? Nobody does now, unless maybe another car arrives a the intersection from left or right, at about the same time. Many, maybe most drivers now will run red light. I recently came to a stop at a red light. The cross street was 3 lanes wide, and i counted 15 cars who ran that red light. That intersection used to be a favorite spot for a motorcycle stop cop to hang out, and hardly anybody ran that light. There are no motorcycle cops here anymore, except the City seems to find a whole bunch of them to form an escort, whenever a high-ranking Democrat politician comes to town.

Everyone now drives well above the speed limit. Because there are no cops, no consequences. Our city streets were designed for traffic going 25 mph, and everyone now drives 35-45 mph, and faster.

In one day, I was nearly struck in crosswalks, by a car, a motorcycle, and a bicyclist in 3 separate incidents. As a pedestrian, I don't cross on a green traffic light. I jaywalk in the middle of the block, where I can see an opening in the vehicle traffic in both directions. Now I'm a criminal too. But I'm still alive.

The Democrats (and Kamala Harris, as a leader, is particularly guilty) of decriminalizing many crimes, changing them to misdemeanors, and not prosecuting them. Letting convicted felons out of jail early. Not charging them, or holding them. I also have a little personal beef with her. I was waiting at a red light one night, when a young man crashed into my car from behind and totaled it. I asked for his license and insurance. He said he wanted for us to drive around the corner out of traffic, and he would do it there. I refused, and insisted he give me the information. He jumped into his car and took off. I noticed that his license plate had fallen under my car in the collision. I took it to a police station, and in 15 minutes they tracked him down, and gave me the information. Kamala Harris was the San Francisco DA, and I called her office saying I wanted this case prosecuted. Because I was uninjured, I was told the charge would just be a misdemeanor, and they don't prosecute them anymore, only felonies. Nowadays they don't prosecute enough felonies either.

Harris has been instrumental in decriminalizing many types of crimes, and letting criminals out of jail. She has been a one-woman wrecking crew of the San Francisco and California justice systems.

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This is a good snapshot of aspects of SF's issues. I still defend SF to people who ask why my wife and I drive there three days a week to do long walks. But what you describe is what I see: a slow erosion of a city I was born and raised in. Absolutely a first step has to be law and order, of everything and everyone, as evenly as possible. It will never be perfect but we have to take it seriously. It doesn't just go away by being nice to everyone. Anyone raise kids, here?

Intentionally releasing convicted criminals into to the population...what could possibly go wrong.

🚨 BREAKING: Harris/Biden ICE Director ADMITS over 425,000 known convicted criminal illegal immigrants have been RELEASED into the United States including 13,000 who were convicted of homicide and 15,000 convicted of sexual assault.

pic.twitter.com/XnSljmIpO2

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 27, 2024

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Intentionally releasing convicted criminals into to the population...what could possibly go wrong.

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Why would ICE release this information now right before the election?

No matter your politics, these new numbers are shocking. Of the 7 million migrants that ICE released while their cases are being processed, 663,000 have criminal histories, 13,000 were convicted of homicide, 16,000 of sexual assault, and 1,845 face homicide charges. 😬 pic.twitter.com/R20ShfPpFq

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 27, 2024

ICE folks prefer sanity and President Trump?

They know our country will be unrecognizable if we allow 4 more years of insane pro-war, open-borders DC oligarchs running the show.

Biden-Harris sent forklifts to open the border when Texas built a razor wall.

Never forget this treason: pic.twitter.com/jnRKn7L1if

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 28, 2024

Delusional jerk

First hand account from a fellow bear and you pee on it because it doesn't fit your narrative.

You know somewhere deep inside that the party you support is turning this country into hell. Now seems like a good time to realize that everything you get from msm is a propaganda machine that really warped your brain.

Kamala Harris was Sworn In As VP on Jan. 20, 2021.

More than 21 Million Illegals have entered through our open borders under Border Czar Kamala

Kamala waiting until month before the election to go to the border, she really thinks voters are stupid🤣

pic.twitter.com/BghVVtSOs6

— 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) September 28, 2024

Why the Senate Border Deal FAILED:

1–Codify Catch/Release
2–Let in 1.8M Illegals
3–Fund Sanctuary Cities
4–Fund NGOs Moving Illegals
5–Lawyers to Illegals
6–Work Permits to Illegals
7–Nothing to Deport Illegals
8–No Immediate Wall Funds
9–Weak Asylum Screening
10–$60B to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/jSqONZgLvC

— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) September 23, 2024

Compare and contrast. The House Bill (HR 2) is the REAL border bill that the Senate refuses to even discuss… pic.twitter.com/uM8IgTPBXU

— Bonnie S 🇺🇸❤️🐶 (@BonnieS21912114) September 23, 2024

HawaiiBear33 said:

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Delusional jerk

First hand account from a fellow bear and you pee on it because it doesn't fit your narrative.

You know somewhere deep inside that the party you support is turning this country into hell. Now seems like a good time to realize that everything you get from msm is a propaganda machine that really warped your brain.

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Seriously. What are you even talking about?

Warrants for arrest as a form of legal ID. LOL It's almost like the asylum inmates in charge of our government are trying to trying to outdo the Babylonbee.

I can’t believe what I just heard

🚨 The Kamala Harris Administration is allowing illegal migrants to present WARRANTS FOR THEIR ARRESTS as documentation to board airplanes to enter America

US Senator Josh Hawley to TSA Director “People who have done absolutely nothing wrong… pic.twitter.com/2IoBp48qwU

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 28, 2024

Drive? Ha! We're flyin' in.

Kamala Announces Construction Of 'Murderers Only' Express Lane At Southern Border https://t.co/Y8eq74e3pb pic.twitter.com/Bj8YBeoCrs

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 28, 2024

I can’t believe what I just heard

🚨 The Kamala Harris Administration is allowing illegal migrants to present WARRANTS FOR THEIR ARRESTS as documentation to board airplanes to enter America

US Senator Josh Hawley to TSA Director “People who have done absolutely nothing wrong… pic.twitter.com/2IoBp48qwU

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 28, 2024

More lunacy

Can we at least let in some illegal immigrant cops to catch the illegal immigrant criminals?

HawaiiBear33 said:

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Kamala Harris was Sworn In As VP on Jan. 20, 2021.

More than 21 Million Illegals have entered through our open borders under Border Czar Kamala

Kamala waiting until month before the election to go to the border, she really thinks voters are stupid🤣

pic.twitter.com/BghVVtSOs6

— 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) September 28, 2024

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Next stop Europe?

Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!

Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast… https://t.co/u3HBdd5Bv0

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 29, 2024

According to Elon's math, all it takes is for one out of every 20 illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens to vote for the Democrats and the U.S. will become a one party nation state forever.

Donald Trump going scorched earth on the illegals.

You love to see it. #DeportThemAll pic.twitter.com/UNn3mUuwCw

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 29, 2024

Dajo,

Did you ever hear the term, "Flyover Country"? This what most elitist liberals living on the West or East Coast call the area that lies between the East and West Coasts. They have utter contempt for most of the citizens living in that territory, for their occupations, their life styles, and their politics.

I had a close friend, a well-known UC Berkeley Professor, who had two children in New York City, one living there, and one visiting, at the time of the World Trade Center Attack on 9/11. She was frantic about her children, and wanted them to come home to California right away, but all flights out of New York were canceled, as the airports were all locked down. I suggested that they travel back to California by train or Greyhound bus. I said it could take them a week or less to make this journey, but it might be a very rewarding experience, to see how other people live in our country. My friend was shocked that I would propose such a thing. She said, "My daughters would NEVER take a train or a bus across the country."

New Jersey is the first state you fly over when you fly from New York to the West Coast, so unless you live at the Jersey seashore, you live in flyover country. I've spent a little time in New Jersey, visiting relatives in Patterson. I suppose New Jersey has its good points. It is mostly old towns and old suburbs, suburbs of New York City. The beaches don't compare to any beach on the West Coast. It is not very picturesque. The politics are as corrupt as anywhere. The Mafia was big there, but I don't know about now. I'll take a pass.

.@JDVance just fact checked CBS News' @NorahODonnell and @margbrennan's "fact check" on Kamala Harris' app that allows illegal aliens to enter this country.

They got so annoyed that they cut off his mic pic.twitter.com/RQqhjFDCBi

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 2, 2024

Isn't it interesting?
Now 320,000 more children are missing with the Biden Harris open border. pic.twitter.com/pDoo3DObTr

— I am Ken (@Ikennect) October 2, 2024

This should be bigger news

Huge

Trump announces he’s going to revoke the fake legal status of the tens of thousands of Haitian illegals and send them back to their country

Ohio is about to be saved and so many other Rust Belt communities

Come here the legal way! pic.twitter.com/15PRUqFJWk

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 3, 2024

This is the CBP One app the US Govt has authorized to let as many foreign nationals into the country as possible;

pic.twitter.com/CKGknoEUxi

— ib (@Indian_Bronson) October 3, 2024

But Kamala said she will close the border so this must be fake

Kamala gave our jobs to foreign migrants. Our federal benefits to foreign migrants. Our housing and hotels to foreign migrants. Our small towns to foreign migrants. Our schools to foreign migrants. Our healthcare to foreign migrants.

And when Americans were dying in North…

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) October 4, 2024