Posted on 09/27/2023 2:52:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Chicago was one of the first cities to embrace decriminalizing shoplifting and defunding the police, and now they’re reaping the consequences of their actions, good and hard.
- Crime has become so crazy in Chicago that the city now has to take over supermarkets.”
- Organized gangs of looters now strip shelves while store employees watch helplessly. The video shows a crew of 14 stripping a Louis Vuitton store bare. One clothing shop: “There have been knives, there has been girls spitting on us, there has been men throwing drinks at us, taking my female sales associates and throwing them into tables. She’s recorded 28 incidents in just the past 60 days.”
- One shoplifting ring stole over $7 million worth of goods, much of it over-the-counter medicine stolen from the likes of Target, Walgreens and CVS and then shipped off to California and New York to be sold.
- No wonder major retailers are fleeing Chicago. Four Wal-Marts closed because the thefts made them no longer profitable, losing tens of millions of dollars. Whole Foods closed six stores.
- Needless to say, Chicago’s Democratic mayor Brandon Johnson was a big fan of defunding the police back in 2020.
- “Thus the very people allegedly helped by the progressive policies get hurt the worst: The poor black and brown communities in Chicago are now food deserts. There’s nowhere to buy groceries.”
- “Private retailers couldn’t afford to keep stores open and let people just steal their merchandise for free. So the mayor plans to open, quote, city-run supermarkets. This is to fill the void left by the Walmarts and the Whole Foods who obviously were losing millions of dollars trying to stay open.”
I imagine putting the Democratic Party in charge of a supermarket will probably work just as well as letting the mob run your restaurant.
Not so much a new phenomenon as an acceleration of something that had already started.
Big gov is okay with running private businesses off.
Then inner city dwellers will shop at the “company stores” subsidized by taxpayer cash.
Soviet grocery store — yep. I’ve seen a number of those. Lots of still photos, too.
I have to laugh when people say “That won’t happen here. We know how to run stores and food supply chains.”
I watched some of those 28 wildly violent smash-and-grab looting incidents on youtube. And of the many hundreds of wildly violent looters, I did notice that one of them was black. I was quite surprised by that. There may have been more than one black person but I didn't really count.
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I watched the new coverage of the Philly wildly violent lootings last night on CNN & MSNBC: The reporters from both CNN & MSNBC were sure to first alert the audience that all the many hundreds of wildly violent looters were absolutely “not” related in any way to “the peaceful protests.” (That’s the same old far-left nonsense that the far-left MSM was spouting throughout the 2020 Election Year’s nationwide wildly violent riots & vicious mob lootings.) I was somewhat surprised to learn that at least one black person was also involved in the wildly violent smash-and-grab lootings in Philly last night.
Unfortunately my inherent white privilege prevents me from giving a rats ass if minorities want to burn, loot and murder their cities to poverty and starvation. That’s their culture and I fully support it, you should too.
Age old problem. You loot, burn, rob and steal in your city and businesses will refuse to open in your city. If they are open in your city, then they will be closing soon.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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