the shopkeeper will run up and say please stop doing that i'll start shouting at them but the shopkeeper of course has no recourse on which to protect their property because california so san francisco has become a shoplifters paradise with thieves like this one caught on video looting a walgreens emboldened by relaxed punishment for the crime as businesses shutter cops say the walgreens heist which happened right in front of a security guard renewed the debate over a controversial city law called proposition NUMBER_TOKEN. what happened in that walgreens has been going on in that city for quite a while san francisco police lieutenant uh lieutenant tracy mcrae said i'm used to it mccrae continued i mean we can have a greatest hitch compilation of people just walking in and cleaning out the store shelves and security guards the people who work there just standing by helplessly because they can't do anything cops and prosecutors are at odds over proposition NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN referendum that lowered the penalty for stealing goods worth less than NUMBER_TOKEN from a felony to a misdemeanor mcrae said that the law only emboldens criminals i mean that should be obvious uh what were the people thinking uh what were people thinking when they introduced this kind this proposition lacks laws like this haven't stopped people from being unnecessarily imprisoned they have only encouraged and increa uh an escalated lawlessness in san francisco and the rest of the state and just just to pop in on uh make a point of this as well uh this is how you create areas with great poverty yes people seem to have a misplaced assumption that crime is a result of poverty i would make the opposite argument that uh poverty is a result of crime when you get businesses and neighborhoods that have businesses where the people are not punished for stealing from them from committing violent crimes and other such things you are increasing the business risk and cost of operating in those neighborhoods whether it be insurance or just increased risk of physical damage done to people and the property themselves and what happens when that happens is businesses move out uh they don't get replaced because people don't want to invest in that neighborhood anymore because it's too dangerous or just costs too much and therefore all of a sudden you suddenly have created a poverty-stricken neighborhood where nobody wants to live there and crime is rife so california sort yourself out if you enjoyed that segment from the podcast the lotus cedars you can go to lotus URL_TOKEN and sign up to get access to all the premium content we have on the site yeah we've got absolutely loads of likes we've been doing this for over a year now so we've got a massive library of content that we're really really proud of we've got loads of premium articles which we have written by our in-house writers and external writers such as this one by hugo which is talking about the great narrative of the world economic forum and how it's falling apart the cracks are becoming visible and we also have for civil tier members and above an audio track read by jonathan crowe who's a very very good uh speaker and this makes it easier for you we also have our regular
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