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.
Everybody knows and nobody can say.
I just want to know when we can get our free stuff.
maybe government can run the stores better. it works in Russia and Cuba...right?
RE: Defund The Police + Decriminalize Shoplifting = “Food Deserts”
That’s one of those math equations like in school. But math is racist. Especially implying one correct answer. 😁
Right - ‘cause the ghetto pigs care who they steal from...
They should make an express line into and out from the store for these good folk.
Shoplifting is no different than looting during business hours. Looters should be shot. That will end this crap rather quickly.
Umm...No. A mob run restaurant would make a profit and the food would be, no doubt, very good.
I bet the people involved were
- Youths
- Hoods
- Teens
- Thugs
- Gangs
- Felons
- Strangers (new for 2023!)
- Punks
- Belligerent
- Vicious
- Violent Mob
- Vile
- Criminals
- Rioters
- Young Men
- Looters
- Mostly Peaceful Protesters
- Inner City Kids
- Sketchy People
- Combative
- Unruly
- Animals
- Bad Actors
- Young People
- Thieves
- Jogger
- Rival Gang Members
- Teen Mob
- Rowdies
- Troubled Youths
- Unruly Crowd
- Urban Youths
- Someone
- Dirt Bike, ATV Riders (new for 2023!)
- Troubled youths
- Unknown offenders
- Wolfpack
- Forklift drivers
- Aspiring rappers
- Party goers
- Students
- Juveniles
- Sliders
Et al
Planned chaos and breakdown of civilization.
The dems engineered this. They seem to be moving toward government-owned “free” stores for their poor oppressed downtrodden starving street savages who loot and steal. Paid for by the people who stand in line at the checkout to pay.
Plus they want reparations for being poor oppressed downtrodden starving street savages who loot and steal. Paid for by the people who go out and work and don’t demand reparations for going out and working and not looting.
They aren’t food deserts, they are civilization deserts.
There’s an elephant in the room of African ancestory.
Are they just magically going to respect city owned grocery stores and refrain from looting them? Pkease. How does the city of Chicago think that they control the behavior of the Gerald w/out laws and police?
“they are civilization deserts.”
Exactly.
“...the city now has to take over supermarkets.”
Dear Chicagoans...you think “food deserts” are bad now, just wait until the DMV is in charge of your food supply.
and anyone who doesn’t understand what’s between an elephant’s toes is slow.
Like the saying goes, put the government in charge of the Sahara desert and pretty soon it would be out of sand.
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