Crime Out-Of-Control In California? You're Being Lied To Again.

And of course the fucking New York Times swallows it whole, as Popular Information has determined. Read it all, I couldn't be arsed to excerpt it effectively.

The New York Times piece did not appear in a vacuum. The false narrative of out-of-control crime in San Francisco, and California as a whole, is being pushed relentlessly by a far-right website run by a former Republican consultant who received a pardon from Trump.

California's leading source of crime disinformation

On October 21, the California Globe published a story about a Target store in downtown San Francisco that was closing “amid shoplifting tidal wave.” The story was an exclusive and featured several unnamed San Francisco Police Department officers who claimed that the Mission Street Target will “be closed by the end of the year despite having solid revenue, because they cannot get the shoplifting under control.”

Explains why the right-wing fake news was all over it. 'Though I must admit I was all in favor of it. Matter of grim fact, I may take up shoplifting again if prices don't come down. Thinking the 5.9% Social Security COLA will barely be noticed.

Course, shoplifting today isn't what it was in the '70s. Used to be a spot w/o cameras near the bakery in "Rock'n'Roll" Ralphs on Sunset where one could slip anything reasonably-sized (a chunk of rat cheese was a favorite) from cart to clothing. Ah, memories ...