San Francisco: Getting What They Wanted - Part 2

The 730 Market Walgreens closed in March

Chronicle writer Phil Matier succinctly summarizes the codification of California's enlightened attitude toward property crime:

Under California law, theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor. The maximum sentence for petty theft is six months in county jail. But most of the time the suspect is released with conditions attached.

So how's that working out for the citizens? [bold added]

After months of seeing its shelves repeatedly cleaned out by brazen shoplifters, the Walgreens at Van Ness and Eddy in San Francisco is getting ready to close.

“The last day is Nov. 11,” Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso said.

The drugstore, which serves many older people who live in the Opera Plaza area, is the seventh Walgreens to close in the city since 2019...

In February, the local news website Hoodline reported that an employee at the Market Street store said the store couldn’t cope with the shoplifting, which was costing the company $1,000 a day.

I do empathize with the law-abiding citizens of San Francisco, but they did vote for these laws and a District Attorney who calls for even more leniency.

One might call it karma.