You could hire a million police, but it won't make a difference if you don't follow through with prosecution and incarceration. Too bad, California. You let the criminals win.
Oh no, 3 of the 22 targets in SF/Oakland have been captured by criminals who steal from working people! Oh wait, that's every single Target when it's open, seeing as as they make billions in profit off of a wage-slave labor force.
Target invested over $100 million into a Marxist Terrorist Organization that then embezzled and stole millions and now the very people Target was trying to help with their phony virtue signaling are now putting them out of business. How Poetic.
Decriminalizing shoplifting , what did they think would happen? Amazing how quickly we're seeing the devastating consequences of these reckless policies.
Not really the law was passed a few years ago... If anything consequences have been rather slow but predictable ... Be interesting to see how the state looks in 10 years tho..
Actually not slow at all, these cities have declined so rapidly in just the last few years, it's hard to believe. I believe that within the next ten years these cities will be forced into bankruptcy. What business in its right mind will move into these cities?. I gave you an up vote because you didn't bite my head off.
CORPORATIONS GET AN INSURANCE BENEFIT IF THEY CLAIM THEY CLOSED DUE TO THEFT. SO IF ONLINE SALES WERE THE PROBLEM THEY WOULDN’T TELL THAT TO THE PRESS. STOP BEING SHEEP
The police gave up because it's a"catch & release system"...there is no justice to be found in the courts, the D.A. won't prosecute, the laws are lax & won't punish and so there is no justice and a proliferation of crime. Criminality pays in CA and the word is out, businesses are leaving in droves and criminals are operating in droves. Good Luck!
@@asiananglerjudges aren’t the ones making laws that allow them to be released. They’re following laws that politicians made and so they have to follow them. So blame the people voted for in office that made these progressive laws that are pro-criminal.
@@janeclayton151Yeah, this just doesn’t make any sense. Businesses will leave if they are losing money and people don’t feel safe shopping there. I don’t blame them at all for leaving!
Oh, we need MORE cops. Like THOUSANDS more. We need enough to cover that 16% of our population that likes to steal, rob, assault, stab, shoot, and run over people with cars.
Agree, With all these bodycam videos of them violating people rights. Being a police officer isn't what is used to be. Now they are all looked at as legal corrupt serial killers, is a disgrace to be a police officer now.
Pretty sure it’s failed policies that more or less incentivized shoplifting. Might be a more sound choice to focus your disappointment on your local and non-local lawmakers.
@@CloudSeedz So they are purposely shutting down profitable stores? Yeah, that's complete and total BS. Stores don't have to "justify" prices. They charge what they charge and you buy it or don't.
@@The2ndFirst I mean I’m sure they aren’t telling the complete truth and that there’s more to it. After this, I read that they’re opening a new location in Harlem on 125th St soon after closing the East Harlem location.
@@mrsleep0000You must be a criminal. And you'll steal from that store too and they won't have a job. You don't know what working is since you steal everything. Pathetic
The guy who said “I always see them inside not doing anything” has no clue. I’ve worked in retail loss prevention for 23 years and trust me we are doing a lot. People have no idea the amount of theft in a retail store and it ranges from all ages and backgrounds. Over the years we have caught everyone from drug users to the daughter of a major professional sports team owner to a circuit court judge stealing.
They are not actually lying to themselves. They are just towing the line, for the elite, corrupt and crooked California governor and his band of elected thugs (aka politicians in California). These people live in their ivory towers, and are not affected by this one bit! Blame the deranged nuts in that state who vote these people in!
White liberals think by decriminalizing shoplifting they are "helping" black people', when in fact they are destroying businesses in black neighborhoods. However white liberals don't care about that because there's no virtue signaling in it.
Sort of. In CA they created a new crime definition of "shoplifting" which is stealing up to $950 worth of stuff, and is treated differently from other forms of larceny. This is classified as a misdemeanor. But the reality is DA's in SF area rarely bother to prosecute this crime, usually pushing a diversion program if they don't outright let it drop.
Yes. It was sold to us in a very tricky way. I am ashamed to say I voted for it. They sent us "for and against" essays, and they were very, very deceitful about what was going on. I was under the impression that the idea was to prevent wealthy people from being able to buy their way out of crimes via the bail system...as in keep them IN jail. That's the way the essay made it sound. The reality is that they intended to let everyone OUT instead of having bail.
Shouldn't you be burning books in the south and trying to start civil wars and controlling women's body's ? Calm down Nazi the people of California got this...
This was what voters were told about Prop 47. "Requires misdemeanor sentence instead of felony for certain drug and property offenses. Inapplicable to persons with prior conviction for serious or violent crime and registered sex offenders. Fiscal Impact: State and county criminal justice savings potentially in the high hundreds of millions of dollars annually. State savings spent on school truancy and dropout prevention, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and victim services." This is what voters weren't told. Under Prop 47, you may qualify for a reduction from a felony to a misdemeanor for some of the following offenses: Certain Forgeries Commercial Burglary Petty Theft with Priors Bad Check Grand Theft Crimes Possession of Stolen Property.
@@MelissaR784That's always the scam with these loaded bills. Too many innate complications filled with treacherous advertising talking points. Our omnibus spending bills are exactly the same.
@@MelissaR784 it's not even that. no specific bill or proposition did all this. The voters voted in soft-on-crime politicians that yes, pass soft policies, but even worse create an anti-police culture so that even the current laws don't get enforced. Then these same voters put in place left-wing bleeding heart DAs, judges, etc.. It's much much bigger than prop 47
When your kids walk in and eat anything they want and then refuse to pay that’s looting, BTW that’s illegal. There is no such things as retail reparations, it’s looting plain as the color of their skin, black. Stop being lazy go get a damn job! No one said the color of your skin made everything free, you just keep thinking that until your ass is in jail where it belongs!
Bold? It's bold for people steal like and to expect others to deal with it. I say clothes all the stores where it's a problem maybe then something will happen.
@Joseph-ke3xcnothing racist about it. Ghetto behavior covers every group no matter the color. Put your race card back in the deck and shuffle a few times, Leftie.
Just stop and think about the fact that they are closing the stores two months before the busiest shopping season of the year. Think about what that implies. What a disaster.
There’s no incentives for the DAs and prosecutors to start prosecuting either because the voters are too stupid to stop voting democrat And can’t connect dots
That's racist dude. The poor people can't afford to shop at target it's targets fault jacking the prices sky high. They buy all their stuff from China and under paid farmers. It's all chinese slave labor, and robots processing food. If they charged fair prices maybe they wouldn't be so hated that they get stolen from and pushed out of business.
The best response was the Supervisor who said he couldn't think of any short term solutions. Here's one... " Starting Monday we will no longer cite and release suspects and we will tell the DA to start prosecuting to the fullest extent possible.
Eventually all retail stores in California (and other places run by Democrats) will close because of Proposition 47 made stealing basically "legal". Californians got what it voted for.
It didn't make stealing legal, it made any theft amounting under $950 a misdemeanor. It was advertised as a bill to help low-income areas by diverting funds to more mental care facilities, when in reality it just went back into Newsom's direct deposit
If you hire 10,000 new police officers what will that do when you don’t hold people accountable for doing bad or illegal things??? It’d just be a waste of tax dollars.
One of the very few things republicans get right is believe that homeowners and business owners should have more rights than criminals. Shocking for a party that is centered on bigotry and selfishness. It's getting harder and harder to decide who to vote for since both sides are getting so extreme.
@@Adelicows Easy peasy, vote for Trump or nothing will change. That's why the status que launched their "witch hunt". Because, the downward path America is on now, will change with him🇺🇸. And, the "political good o'l boy, business as usual buzzards" aren't invited.👎😎😉
They've created such a mess, I don't think they have the backbone to do what it takes to clean these cities up. All they'll do is try to push these people off onto other areas and make the rest of us deal with this trash.
This is a direct result of Prop 47 passed in 2014, the "California Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act" which raised the limit for misdemeanor petty theft to $950.
@@makt122Read the comments from Californians and you'll understand. One lady said she voted to be soft on crime because she liked the pamphlet they sent her. Democrats will believe anything you spoon feed as long as it's shiny.
The Dems punish the very people they claim to be for, since low-income neighborhoods end up buying necessities at convenience stores, where the food is unhealthy and costs twice as much.
It's insane that you can resale high volumes of stolen goods on eBay, Facebook marketplace, amazon etc and have to provide zero verification of where the product came from
I’m old enough to remember target saying they would be opening dozens of stores in black neighborhoods to serve the most needy. I wonder if the person who came up with that idea is still employed-or worse, promoted!
You guys have to take the lead - 99% of them come from your community - if anyone else promote that idea we are racist :). Black problem must be solved by black people.
Not happening sis.Most of the theives are caucasians in that area so they'll be released quickly.If it was our people they'd keep us locked up and throw away the key🕎🙏
I couldn't give a shit about Target closing any of their stores. It must be over ten years now that Target bought Zellers here in Canada. Their prices were a joke. It was cheaper to shop at Wal-Mart or online. Finally Target closed all their stores and pulled out of Canada leaving hundreds possibly thousands) unemployed. I think Wal-Mart stepped in and hired a few of those employees.
I live in the US , but I grew up in Canada, Zellers was awesome liked it far more than Walmart and they had quality stuff in the 90s. I got most of my clothes and school supplies from Zellers and I even worked as a cashier there for a year before moving. Always will love Zellers!
No surprise there. There needs to be punishment in order for these thieves to determine it is not worth the risk. No/minimal risk and the criminals run rampant.
@@glitter_fart As a property investor I can assure you NO ONE I know is looking at these "opportunities" for investment. We need reliable clients - financially stable, respectful of property and laws, no criminal element. Unless you are looking at decades for a return you'll not follow the actions of Detroit "investors" who kept saying, "It can't get worse" and of course it can,. Those who invested there lost everything.
@@smb123211I find it hard to believe they don't have plans for San Francisco. There is big money there and the homes are outrageously expensive. Why aren't the people invested (not small business owners or the folks who spend $5,000 a month for a studio apartment but the people who actually own land and homes and have millions in that city) making more of a scene? They stand to lose millions of not tens millions and they have nothing to say? There has to be something else going on.
Are they trying to have their cake and eat it too? Nothing can be done about this crime while at the same time coddling criminals and enabling homelessness. Ridiculous.
In Alameda County, they have to deal with the incompetent DA Pam Price, she basically says it’s racist to arrest them, anybody really, murderers, thieves, to charge them and add any further charges even if they murder somebody, cuz she was once a juvenile criminal in her youth, so she thinks these thieves and gang bangers will be the next US President, the next in Congress or something, the next Obama, so there are gang bangers not getting gang enhancement charges, gun charges dropped, a 5 year old was murdered on the freeway, people let off, and she issued a memo to her staff not to file criminal charges, so it is basically lawless for the most part and AC has to deal with her for another 3 years til 2027, so I don’t except much to change, the dmg had alrdy been done, that’s pretty much the Bay Area thinking in-general 🤔 and them DAs get paid probably 200k-400k+, like $150+ an hour to be severely incompetent and protecting the thieves, homeless and gang bangers Stay outta the Town, the O, its too hood, the Bay Area in general, you’ll be risking your life, gettin robbed broad day light, and your car will either be stolen and gone, maybe stripped and left out on the street if its a nice car, your car will be on 🧱 cats stolen or broken into, itsa no go zone if you value safety 🚫⛔️🙅♂️❌🙅♂️
Also Tanya, retail theft cost us money because we pay for it when we shop at these stores, buy insurance etc.. Every citizen should be outraged at the spineless “ leadership”, all for votes! Un Fing’ Believable.
You could have 1,000,000,000,000,000 police officers. Nothing would happen. The liberal government would order the police to stand down, and all charges would be dropped
@@TC-zf1jiSimple. Jail and heavier sentences. We let them out in CA; we voted on it in a proposition a few years ago. Bail was removed in exchange for just letting everyone go, then they just ditch their court dates and go back to commiting crimes, and the cycle repeats. They keep closing prisons in the name of "prison is unfair to black folks" and that sort of thing. Well, getting robbed in broad daylight is unfair to ALL of us. I have had to call 911 5 times just this year. I have been robbed twice, both during the day, and had my catalytic converter stolen, also during the day. I am beyond sick of it. Living here is terrible...and also, ironically, more expensive than anywhere else I've ever lived. It's not rocket science here. It we just did what every other state in the US does, we would have similar crime stats to them. This is all in the name of "diversity and inclusion". The governor refuses to even admit crime is up, he even says it's DOWN...while retail stores and real estate firms literally abandon their properties to cut losses...it's like Gavin lives in an alternative universe.
@@TC-zf1ji How convenient that you ask for links on a platform you KNOW censors links in order to avoid doing your own research. Why are you so willfully ignorant?
I blame politicians and ridiculously liberal judges. But Target is very woke so they may have helped the politicians and judges that set the policies that ultimately caused the problems.
Billion dollar big box stores can easily afford to hire more security & change their entry/exit system. I feel there’s something else at work here, like slumping profits from losing customers to the dollar stores that also added grocery, and to online shopping. And to inflation hesitancy toward buying, which are all happening. Americans are buying as little as possible and have been this way all year. Not to mention the stock market value is more important to big corporate than feeding & clothing a community, so when sales stagnate and stock dips they will try to downsize to look like they are still successful. It would have been better for towns to keep their small businesses and not allow the big boxes to build. Including that small business owners live in town, not elsewhere so the money of all involved also is spent in town. Now instead you have giant empty buildings with giant parking lots and its all just going to sit there and rot.
I cant imagine what those targets deal with. I worked at a gas station down the street from the homeless shelter here and that was enoughr to kill my compassion for my fellow man.
This is an indicator of the collapse of local area's social system. Once it gets this far it will be hard to come back. Even if the theft problem is solved, the lost businesses will still be afraid that it is too risky to return.
These looting scumbags need to serve hard, long time. Thanks to the greed and moral bankruptcy of these thieves many seniors and people without cars no longer have a place to shop and anyone who works for these stores is out of work. Time to get rid of any DA who won’t prosecute these crimes fully. Recall Diane Becton! Recall Pamela Price!
What did people expect? You can't have retail thef with impunity and think that these companies are going to keep stores open that are losing thousands of dollars weekly. The counsel woman who fought hard to get Target into her community ought to feel terrible, because all her work has gone up in smoke. Stop passing liberal laws that are weak and anemic and nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Throw these people in jail, lock them up, give them serious prison time, and that will cut down on this foolishness!
@@gheebuttersnaps2011I believe he's being sarcastic in reference to the crazies saying the exact same thing when they burned a large chunk of Minneapolis to the ground.
pacifism is the best way to enable the evil parts of society to get stronger and bolder. modern liberals assume that people are only evil because of the system making them bad but certain people are just more likely to act in certain ways and thats just human nature. so they apply these laws that make no logical sense thinking it will make society more fair when all it does is gut the social cohesion and trust when people sees things like this go unpunished. and the worst part, instead of changing their practices seeing that its not working, they double down
If we gave them a 6 figure salary per cop, it wouldn't change a thing. Defund them anyway, they waste funds on things that won't improve the community.
Train the employees? To not put their lives in front of merchandise? Hire private security? To not engage? Hire more police? To not arrest or charge thieves of anything? What do you expect? 🙄
There was a retail outlet, not Target, they had a female thief, she put stuff in her clothes, when they cornered the female thief and attempt to take the merchandise back she filed a sexual molestation complaint and the two security guards were fired. This is "woke", get born with a vagina, rob the world blind.
You can’t hire more police when you don’t support them for doing their job or demonize them. Hence they are quitting at record numbers…..and can’t replace them…You can’t arrest thieves when the lawmakers believe theft is petty crime is not a crime and perpetrators should not have bail inquiries if arrested…..how to create a conservative? Give these liberal democrats what they want.
That good. One of the best things that happened was when Walmart got shutdown in portland. The homeless people had no where to loot everyday, so they migrated to another location. 😂
As Asset protection managers and associates we are beyond frustrated. Most of us in this position actually care about communities we work in. I’m the Ap manager at a JCPenney and for sure this is all political! Make shoplifting a crime again! 🤦♂️ back in the day you would get tackled on the concrete for a candy bar!!! People might say excessive, but I say it’s necessary or else it’s only going to get worse! The culture of “You can just walk out and they can’t do anything” is getting out of hand! And it’s true we can’t do anything and Police don’t respond
I went to the Target on Folsom once -- its not even recognizable as a Target on the inside. Every refrigerator and sanitary product is locked up and you need someone to manually come and unlock it. And theres a tall gated fence around the store almost like in the middle of a warzone.
The target in oakland was doomed from the start. Every single time I visited there I observed someone trying to steal something or some kids trying to return stolen goods. Security would try to stop them but they would just run out of the store and the police would take forever to arrive.
My heart goes out to the criminals whose shoplifting options are really starting to dwindle. You know times are tough when even crooks start feeling the pinch.
Police don’t actually stop crime. They barely even react to it. There’s a cop on every corner in Oakland but strangely they are never around when you need them.
Making crime illegal again would go a long way to stopping criminal behavior
And a 12 Guage
Lowering the prices that even You can't afford
That would make too much sense.
You think these targets really close due to theft ? - DYOR I bet you phone scammed still 🤣
@@WeylandLabsWhat about CVS and Whole Foods? Are they in on the scam too? LOL
You could hire a million police, but it won't make a difference if you don't follow through with prosecution and incarceration. Too bad, California. You let the criminals win.
Oh no, 3 of the 22 targets in SF/Oakland have been captured by criminals who steal from working people!
Oh wait, that's every single Target when it's open, seeing as as they make billions in profit off of a wage-slave labor force.
Exactly.
The vote is all that matters there. As long as the morons vote Biden, They give no fu*ks!
Target invested over $100 million into a Marxist Terrorist Organization that then embezzled and stole millions and now the very people Target was trying to help with their phony virtue signaling are now putting them out of business. How Poetic.
Terrible leaders in CA and even worse voter base....... too bad.
Decriminalizing shoplifting , what did they think would happen? Amazing how quickly we're seeing the devastating consequences of these reckless policies.
hey fuckface - what planet do you live on where shop lifting isn't a crime?
Not really the law was passed a few years ago... If anything consequences have been rather slow but predictable ... Be interesting to see how the state looks in 10 years tho..
Actually not slow at all, these cities have declined so rapidly in just the last few years, it's hard to believe. I believe that within the next ten years these cities will be forced into bankruptcy. What business in its right mind will move into these cities?. I gave you an up vote because you didn't bite my head off.
Decriminalizing was made to ensure you white folks don't see the inside of a jail cell. Legalized drug possession? Enjoy!!!
CORPORATIONS GET AN INSURANCE BENEFIT IF THEY CLAIM THEY CLOSED DUE TO THEFT. SO IF ONLINE SALES WERE THE PROBLEM THEY WOULDN’T TELL THAT TO THE PRESS. STOP BEING SHEEP
Why are they blaming SFPD. At the end of the day, if the thieves aren't prosecuted, they'll just do it again.
The police gave up because it's a"catch & release system"...there is no justice to be found in the courts, the D.A. won't prosecute, the laws are lax & won't punish and so there is no justice and a proliferation of crime. Criminality pays in CA and the word is out, businesses are leaving in droves and criminals are operating in droves. Good Luck!
Just look at Banko Brown's situation and you can see why no one wants to do anything. Just chalk up the losses as reparations at this point.
so blame the lenient liberal judges?
@@asiananglerjudges aren’t the ones making laws that allow them to be released. They’re following laws that politicians made and so they have to follow them. So blame the people voted for in office that made these progressive laws that are pro-criminal.
@@janeclayton151Yeah, this just doesn’t make any sense. Businesses will leave if they are losing money and people don’t feel safe shopping there. I don’t blame them at all for leaving!
You dont NEED MORE COPS. You need to enforce the laws and put these crooks away. It's not Targets job to fix the city's lack of law enforcement.
Nobody wants to be a cop, especially younger people
Oh, we need MORE cops. Like THOUSANDS more. We need enough to cover that 16% of our population that likes to steal, rob, assault, stab, shoot, and run over people with cars.
🤣🤣, you are plainly stupid and ignorant
Agree, With all these bodycam videos of them violating people rights. Being a police officer isn't what is used to be. Now they are all looked at as legal corrupt serial killers, is a disgrace to be a police officer now.
I know they're short a few hundred cops but that's what happens when you're in a city that demonizes them. Who would want to stay in the job?
I'm honeslty upset that this is happening. I hate how shoplifters ruin everything for everyone!
I hate how liberals enable shoplifters to ruin for everyone.
Pretty sure it’s failed policies that more or less incentivized shoplifting. Might be a more sound choice to focus your disappointment on your local and non-local lawmakers.
Me too!
You get what you vote for
The end result for defunding the police.
this is what happen when city officials keep protecting shoplifters and criminals.
They couldnt do it without democrat voters.
All these dumb city folks say they don’t like these “big box stores“ well, mission accomplished😂
This is what happens when people like you keep voting them back in.
@@MA-yl1erand yet Republicans want to put a criminal back into office. Smh.
This is also what happens when a corporation is too pussy to allow their guards to do anything
The cop's arrest the crooks and the court's let them go.
It's like the worst Law and Order series ever.
No. The cops give them a ticket, for less than a $1000 value.
No, the cops don’t even do anything. Especially in San Francisco.
Big deal !
You guys realize most of the problem is because retailers don't allow their "guards" to stop anyone, right?
The ones doing the crash steal and run are home grown Terrorists in my opinion and should be treated as such.
At least they're actually telling the truth about why they're closing.
Target inflates their losses to increase prices ! It’s a known that they are aware of evetry item that leaves the stores
Why else would they be closing? If the business isn’t thriving, it makes sense to close up shop.
@@CloudSeedz So they are purposely shutting down profitable stores? Yeah, that's complete and total BS. Stores don't have to "justify" prices. They charge what they charge and you buy it or don't.
@@vonettadevo Well yes. The thing is though all the supermarkets and wal marts gave BS word salad for why they closed.
@@The2ndFirst I mean I’m sure they aren’t telling the complete truth and that there’s more to it. After this, I read that they’re opening a new location in Harlem on 125th St soon after closing the East Harlem location.
I feel bad for the employees who got bills to pay
Work outside landscapers always hiring are you a panzi
True move if you can!
the black people caused this
They can just go work at another store, the employees aren't losing their jobs.
@@mrsleep0000You must be a criminal. And you'll steal from that store too and they won't have a job. You don't know what working is since you steal everything. Pathetic
The guy who said “I always see them inside not doing anything” has no clue. I’ve worked in retail loss prevention for 23 years and trust me we are doing a lot. People have no idea the amount of theft in a retail store and it ranges from all ages and backgrounds. Over the years we have caught everyone from drug users to the daughter of a major professional sports team owner to a circuit court judge stealing.
Thank you for not making this a race thing. Everyone is stealing nowadays. Sometimes it’s food. But m a lot of it make up and hair products.
It is absolutely fascinating how we as humans sometimes just blatantly lie to ourselves as well as other people. Everyone knows what the problem is.
I swear liberals lie and hide facts more to protect feelings and conservatives telling the truth get called a**holes or r*cists or misogynists.
The problem is global warming and white supremacy!
They are not actually lying to themselves. They are just towing the line, for the elite, corrupt and crooked California governor and his band of elected thugs (aka politicians in California). These people live in their ivory towers, and are not affected by this one bit!
Blame the deranged nuts in that state who vote these people in!
I hear ya and often wonder if anyone else thought the same thing.
Blacks
Didn't the Cal voters approve a proposition decriminalizing shoplifting?
De facto in San Francisco. Everywhere else there’s a whole list of other problems…
White liberals think by decriminalizing shoplifting they are "helping" black people', when in fact they are destroying businesses in black neighborhoods. However white liberals don't care about that because there's no virtue signaling in it.
Sort of. In CA they created a new crime definition of "shoplifting" which is stealing up to $950 worth of stuff, and is treated differently from other forms of larceny. This is classified as a misdemeanor. But the reality is DA's in SF area rarely bother to prosecute this crime, usually pushing a diversion program if they don't outright let it drop.
so you think there is a correlation? :)
Yes. It was sold to us in a very tricky way. I am ashamed to say I voted for it. They sent us "for and against" essays, and they were very, very deceitful about what was going on. I was under the impression that the idea was to prevent wealthy people from being able to buy their way out of crimes via the bail system...as in keep them IN jail. That's the way the essay made it sound. The reality is that they intended to let everyone OUT instead of having bail.
Rampant retail theft is a sign of Weak government & policing...
NO one should be surprised
Congratulations. You are getting EXACTLY what you have voted for. Exactly.
Congratulations on making the most unoriginal comment.
@@screaminpman
Whether your feelings are hurt by it or not, still true.
Shouldn't you be burning books in the south and trying to start civil wars and controlling women's body's ? Calm down Nazi the people of California got this...
@@screaminpmankeep voting the way you do, just don't expect change
@@screaminpman welp, whatever. Still true.
Way to go Gavin! Your doing great
😂 Galvin, go work at a target. We need a real leader, not a loser.
Good job voters. Love what you’ve done with the place.
This was what voters were told about Prop 47.
"Requires misdemeanor sentence instead of felony for certain drug and property offenses. Inapplicable to persons with prior conviction for serious or violent crime and registered sex offenders. Fiscal Impact: State and county criminal justice savings potentially in the high hundreds of millions of dollars annually. State savings spent on school truancy and dropout prevention, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and victim services."
This is what voters weren't told.
Under Prop 47, you may qualify for a reduction from a felony to a misdemeanor for some of the following offenses:
Certain Forgeries
Commercial Burglary
Petty Theft with Priors
Bad Check
Grand Theft Crimes
Possession of Stolen Property.
@@MelissaR784That's always the scam with these loaded bills. Too many innate complications filled with treacherous advertising talking points. Our omnibus spending bills are exactly the same.
@@MelissaR784 it's not even that. no specific bill or proposition did all this. The voters voted in soft-on-crime politicians that yes, pass soft policies, but even worse create an anti-police culture so that even the current laws don't get enforced. Then these same voters put in place left-wing bleeding heart DAs, judges, etc.. It's much much bigger than prop 47
But now they are crying about crime and expect everyone else to deal with their bad decisions
@@BlueInOrangeAgain This is true. There's an agenda that's slowing being implemented. Worldwide.
Very unfortunate. Bold for Target to say it’s due to theft- most stores just say that it’s “unprofitable”
When your kids walk in and eat anything they want and then refuse to pay that’s looting, BTW that’s illegal. There is no such things as retail reparations, it’s looting plain as the color of their skin, black. Stop being lazy go get a damn job! No one said the color of your skin made everything free, you just keep thinking that until your ass is in jail where it belongs!
Bold? It's bold for people steal like and to expect others to deal with it. I say clothes all the stores where it's a problem maybe then something will happen.
Ghetto behavior must be stopped
@Joseph-ke3xcnothing racist about it. Ghetto behavior covers every group no matter the color. Put your race card back in the deck and shuffle a few times, Leftie.
@minipandora22 why do you racists always have to tip toe around what you want to say. Grow a pair.
Prop 47 - passed in 2014 - has been an absolute disaster
Just stop and think about the fact that they are closing the stores two months before the busiest shopping season of the year. Think about what that implies. What a disaster.
🧔🏿♂️✊🏿
Biggest shop-lifting season of the year. Biggest hiring season. Tax revenue.
Spot on
The Dollar Tree was robbed in my town. There won't be anything left in a few years.
Robbing Dollar tree is like picking up a penny from the sidewalk.
Sad part is after thieves ruin 1 neighborhood, will move to still operating stores in our towns. My town has a jail. Big deterant
Pretty much everyone carries in my town so there's no way this would happen. We wouldn't put up with this nonsense.
Here in Texas, we consider it mercy to let a thief get arrested.
That's exactly right. Who is going to stop them????
Guess why there is very little shoplifting in Singapore? The reason is it's not tolerated. You shoplift and you get beaten and sent to jail there.
In california there is no incentive for theives to stop stealing.
There’s no incentives for the DAs and prosecutors to start prosecuting either because the voters are too stupid to stop voting democrat And can’t connect dots
Unfortunately that behavior has become a problem across the US and all because of one culture
Just remember, it could be Gavin Newsome the Govenor of California, who will be running for President against Trump.
@@elgastsos210 the only reason they legalize weed is for votes. I don’t care if people smoke the stuff just don’t lie about why they legalized it
Yes, and why is that? and how soon can you fix the problem?
No consequences for retail theft, it's disgusting that they can get away and even if caught get a slap on the wrist.
That's racist dude. The poor people can't afford to shop at target it's targets fault jacking the prices sky high. They buy all their stuff from China and under paid farmers. It's all chinese slave labor, and robots processing food. If they charged fair prices maybe they wouldn't be so hated that they get stolen from and pushed out of business.
I live here in cali. Idiots keep voting for democrats. 🤦🏽♂️
Gotta be more than $950 for them to even look into it lol
Can you fix poverty?
have you noticed the skin color of the majority of the perps doing these retail thefts and smash-and-grabs? 🥷🏾
The best response was the Supervisor who said he couldn't think of any short term solutions. Here's one... " Starting Monday we will no longer cite and release suspects and we will tell the DA to start prosecuting to the fullest extent possible.
All they think is they will lose votes from the homeless junkies and criminals. Votes are what all politicians really care about
Good job Governor Newsom.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
💯
black people the reason we can’t
That's an intelligent move on Targets part. Thanks for that Gavin
Eventually all retail stores in California (and other places run by Democrats) will close because of Proposition 47 made stealing basically "legal". Californians got what it voted for.
Obama gang
Yeah these people are stealing because their families are hungry due to covid restrictions. Uh huh.
But no one is leaving and you will deal with it no matter how bad it gets
It didn't make stealing legal, it made any theft amounting under $950 a misdemeanor. It was advertised as a bill to help low-income areas by diverting funds to more mental care facilities, when in reality it just went back into Newsom's direct deposit
You get what you vote for and the worst is yet to come.
Go woke go broke!!!!
And I bet they vote for the same idiots again. Repeating the same action yet expecting a different outcome has a name. It's called insanity! 😊
Progressive voting, means things get progressively worst...
If you hire 10,000 new police officers what will that do when you don’t hold people accountable for doing bad or illegal things??? It’d just be a waste of tax dollars.
None closing in Texas nor Florida. It is not difficult to figure out why.
They have far more pressing issues to deal with in those states.
Like the invasion caused by the same people that caused all the crime ?
@@mushmouth610 Like what? people and businesses are moving to FL and TX in high numbers.
Notice these are all Democratic States/City's!! What does that tell you people VOTE RED!
@@EddieHenderson92 They do this weird thing where they have to shit on other places to cope with their own cowardice.
What could go wrong when you elect people, vote for the policies and the party that enables criminals in the name of social justice?
No votes for Dems who are soft on crime and no votes for Repubs who are soft on guns, vote third party! ✌️
@@DSandy111 more guns, more prisons
Social Justice Warriors & Wokies.👎😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
One of the very few things republicans get right is believe that homeowners and business owners should have more rights than criminals. Shocking for a party that is centered on bigotry and selfishness.
It's getting harder and harder to decide who to vote for since both sides are getting so extreme.
@@Adelicows
Easy peasy, vote for Trump or nothing will change.
That's why the status que launched their "witch hunt". Because, the downward path America is on now, will change with him🇺🇸. And, the "political good o'l boy, business as usual buzzards" aren't invited.👎😎😉
They don't call the governor gruesome Gavin Newsom for nothing
Complaining does not work.
Voting out the politicians and the DAs who have created this problem does work.
They've created such a mess, I don't think they have the backbone to do what it takes to clean these cities up. All they'll do is try to push these people off onto other areas and make the rest of us deal with this trash.
The diversity community that does this is the problem.
Shows 3 reply, I do not see sny.
How to create a conservative? Give liberal democrats what they want….
@@bobdavidsonm.d.7214 Only see yours.
The diversity community has done it again.
Once again showing diversity is their strength.
Don't forget...
Get woke, GO BROKE!!!
This is a direct result of Prop 47 passed in 2014, the "California Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act" which raised the limit for misdemeanor petty theft to $950.
Why is it that these California props that have names like "safe neighborhoods" always end up having literally the opposite effect when passed 🤔
Never did a proposition have a more Orwellian name.
@@makt122Read the comments from Californians and you'll understand. One lady said she voted to be soft on crime because she liked the pamphlet they sent her. Democrats will believe anything you spoon feed as long as it's shiny.
@@circesoul2218 And GQP goons will believe anything as long as its uttered by Faux "News"
From the democrats Pont of view there's going to be less dangerous crimes if you let the robbers take what they want no questions asked 😂
It's really bad for the community when you lose anchor stores like that.
_It's really bad for the community when you lose anchor stores like that._
They ax'd for it.
The community gets what it deserves if it doesn’t vote hug a thug liberal democrats out of office!!!!
Yep. Just another big empty building. It'll make a good illegal migrant shelter.
Well they voted for the policies that led to this.
The Dems punish the very people they claim to be for, since low-income neighborhoods end up buying necessities at convenience stores, where the food is unhealthy and costs twice as much.
It's insane that you can resale high volumes of stolen goods on eBay, Facebook marketplace, amazon etc and have to provide zero verification of where the product came from
I’m old enough to remember target saying they would be opening dozens of stores in black neighborhoods to serve the most needy. I wonder if the person who came up with that idea is still employed-or worse, promoted!
No, sir! That person was gunned down by a black robber two months ago. It is sad to recall.
@googl2503 If this story is true, then it serves him right.
You are Getting EXACTLY what you keep Voting for. Congratulations !
Remember when Crime was against the Law??? What a Concept.
Who would have thought? Soft on crime... And you get this!
Lock the thieves up!!!!
You guys have to take the lead - 99% of them come from your community - if anyone else promote that idea we are racist :). Black problem must be solved by black people.
@@AK-bt6esUntil they pay back every penny they stole.
Not happening sis.Most of the theives are caucasians in that area so they'll be released quickly.If it was our people they'd keep us locked up and throw away the key🕎🙏
@@AK-bt6es deport them to their homeland they love talking about so much
Plus a hefty fine for stealing. THey should have to WORK IT OFF until they reimburse for everything they stole.
Congrats California this is your hard work paying off. enjoy
I couldn't give a shit about Target closing any of their stores. It must be over ten years now that Target bought Zellers here in Canada. Their prices were a joke. It was cheaper to shop at Wal-Mart or online. Finally Target closed all their stores and pulled out of Canada leaving hundreds possibly thousands) unemployed. I think Wal-Mart stepped in and hired a few of those employees.
I live in the US , but I grew up in Canada, Zellers was awesome liked it far more than Walmart and they had quality stuff in the 90s. I got most of my clothes and school supplies from Zellers and I even worked as a cashier there for a year before moving. Always will love Zellers!
No surprise there. There needs to be punishment in order for these thieves to determine it is not worth the risk. No/minimal risk and the criminals run rampant.
Shouldn't the thieves be charged under organized crime statutes?
You would think so. Prosecute the buyers of the stolen goods as well.
but that might solve the problem instead of making it worse for investers to buy out huge chunks of the city
@@glitter_fart As a property investor I can assure you NO ONE I know is looking at these "opportunities" for investment. We need reliable clients - financially stable, respectful of property and laws, no criminal element. Unless you are looking at decades for a return you'll not follow the actions of Detroit "investors" who kept saying, "It can't get worse" and of course it can,. Those who invested there lost everything.
That's what I've been saying.. Does literal organize crime.. FBI should be involved
@@smb123211I find it hard to believe they don't have plans for San Francisco. There is big money there and the homes are outrageously expensive. Why aren't the people invested (not small business owners or the folks who spend $5,000 a month for a studio apartment but the people who actually own land and homes and have millions in that city) making more of a scene? They stand to lose millions of not tens millions and they have nothing to say? There has to be something else going on.
Nobody wants Target anymore. Poor quality high prices
Are they trying to have their cake and eat it too? Nothing can be done about this crime while at the same time coddling criminals and enabling homelessness. Ridiculous.
What does hiring police have to do with it? It's useless to arrest them when they are turned loose immediately with no disciplinary actions!
Prisons are over flowing and too many steel
In Alameda County, they have to deal with the incompetent DA Pam Price, she basically says it’s racist to arrest them, anybody really, murderers, thieves, to charge them and add any further charges even if they murder somebody, cuz she was once a juvenile criminal in her youth, so she thinks these thieves and gang bangers will be the next US President, the next in Congress or something, the next Obama, so there are gang bangers not getting gang enhancement charges, gun charges dropped, a 5 year old was murdered on the freeway, people let off, and she issued a memo to her staff not to file criminal charges, so it is basically lawless for the most part and AC has to deal with her for another 3 years til 2027, so I don’t except much to change, the dmg had alrdy been done, that’s pretty much the Bay Area thinking in-general 🤔 and them DAs get paid probably 200k-400k+, like $150+ an hour to be severely incompetent and protecting the thieves, homeless and gang bangers
Stay outta the Town, the O, its too hood, the Bay Area in general, you’ll be risking your life, gettin robbed broad day light, and your car will either be stolen and gone, maybe stripped and left out on the street if its a nice car, your car will be on 🧱 cats stolen or broken into,
itsa no go zone if you value safety 🚫⛔️🙅♂️❌🙅♂️
Sadly there is merit in what you say Tanya. Even sadder to see back street low life thugs ruining your country.
Also Tanya, retail theft cost us money because we pay for it when we shop at these stores, buy insurance etc.. Every citizen should be outraged at the spineless “ leadership”, all for votes! Un Fing’ Believable.
All of u democrats are to blame for voting this kind of policies that decriminalise theft and shoplifting. Serves all of u right.
More police is not the solution, get rid of criminals is the only way to turn the situation around. You get what you vote for.
You could have 1,000,000,000,000,000 police officers. Nothing would happen. The liberal government would order the police to stand down, and all charges would be dropped
No room for the criminals. There's nothing to do
@@TC-zf1jiSimple. Jail and heavier sentences. We let them out in CA; we voted on it in a proposition a few years ago. Bail was removed in exchange for just letting everyone go, then they just ditch their court dates and go back to commiting crimes, and the cycle repeats. They keep closing prisons in the name of "prison is unfair to black folks" and that sort of thing. Well, getting robbed in broad daylight is unfair to ALL of us.
I have had to call 911 5 times just this year. I have been robbed twice, both during the day, and had my catalytic converter stolen, also during the day. I am beyond sick of it. Living here is terrible...and also, ironically, more expensive than anywhere else I've ever lived.
It's not rocket science here. It we just did what every other state in the US does, we would have similar crime stats to them. This is all in the name of "diversity and inclusion". The governor refuses to even admit crime is up, he even says it's DOWN...while retail stores and real estate firms literally abandon their properties to cut losses...it's like Gavin lives in an alternative universe.
@@TC-zf1jiHarsher punishments and actually prosecuting?
It's catch and release with 0 consequences
@@TC-zf1ji How convenient that you ask for links on a platform you KNOW censors links in order to avoid doing your own research.
Why are you so willfully ignorant?
I don't blame Target! These places need to do something about the theft crimes.
Target are big left wing supporters so they should stay and pay the reparations.
I blame politicians and ridiculously liberal judges. But Target is very woke so they may have helped the politicians and judges that set the policies that ultimately caused the problems.
They focus too much on pride flag than theft
@@scottzeezee4343well they are also in plenty of states that dont have those foolish policies also
Billion dollar big box stores can easily afford to hire more security & change their entry/exit system. I feel there’s something else at work here, like slumping profits from losing customers to the dollar stores that also added grocery, and to online shopping. And to inflation hesitancy toward buying, which are all happening. Americans are buying as little as possible and have been this way all year. Not to mention the stock market value is more important to big corporate than feeding & clothing a community, so when sales stagnate and stock dips they will try to downsize to look like they are still successful. It would have been better for towns to keep their small businesses and not allow the big boxes to build. Including that small business owners live in town, not elsewhere so the money of all involved also is spent in town. Now instead you have giant empty buildings with giant parking lots and its all just going to sit there and rot.
Everyone knows what the problem is. They know the answer. They’re either too greedy or too afraid to do what it takes to stop it.
Everyone also knows WHO the probem is.
But they'll be called a racist?
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@@tanthaman LMAO its real bad when we know that those emotis mean.
@@babyvaso3855 haha I know lol
Liberal Target is closing their stores in Liberal Metropolitan areas. You get what you VOTE for!
liberal target didn't vote for this, the stupid ass liberal community did lol
🎯👍👏👏👏!
Wow! The liberal Target is having hard time in keeping their stores operating in the cities of the liberal state of California... Shocking 😮 😂😂😂!
'Defund the police' seems to be going well over there. Glad I left the Bay Area.
😂 Target - we are woke
Also Target - our wokeness is now affecting our pockets
Are you really this dumb?
I cant imagine what those targets deal with. I worked at a gas station down the street from the homeless shelter here and that was enoughr to kill my compassion for my fellow man.
Thank the brothers
This is an indicator of the collapse of local area's social system. Once it gets this far it will be hard to come back. Even if the theft problem is solved, the lost businesses will still be afraid that it is too risky to return.
These looting scumbags need to serve hard, long time. Thanks to the greed and moral bankruptcy of these thieves many seniors and people without cars no longer have a place to shop and anyone who works for these stores is out of work.
Time to get rid of any DA who won’t prosecute these crimes fully. Recall Diane Becton! Recall Pamela Price!
I would have thought all the money they made from selling gay oriented clothes to children would cover their loses.
Can’t blame them for closing.
What did people expect? You can't have retail thef with impunity and think that these companies are going to keep stores open that are losing thousands of dollars weekly. The counsel woman who fought hard to get Target into her community ought to feel terrible, because all her work has gone up in smoke. Stop passing liberal laws that are weak and anemic and nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Throw these people in jail, lock them up, give them serious prison time, and that will cut down on this foolishness!
But Target has insurance
@@XxowendanxXBasic retail theft isn't covered by business insurance. It only covers losses from events like looting from riots or natural disasters.
@@gheebuttersnaps2011I believe he's being sarcastic in reference to the crazies saying the exact same thing when they burned a large chunk of Minneapolis to the ground.
pacifism is the best way to enable the evil parts of society to get stronger and bolder. modern liberals assume that people are only evil because of the system making them bad but certain people are just more likely to act in certain ways and thats just human nature. so they apply these laws that make no logical sense thinking it will make society more fair when all it does is gut the social cohesion and trust when people sees things like this go unpunished.
and the worst part, instead of changing their practices seeing that its not working, they double down
What do these cities have in common, in terms of their political “leaders”?
I would leave too if I were them! What’s happening to San Francisco is criminal!
And then there's people who want to defund the police. I bet they wouldn't if this was happening in their neighborhood. SMH
You're right! They wouldn't!
It’s not about getting rid of cops. That makes no sense.
If we gave them a 6 figure salary per cop, it wouldn't change a thing. Defund them anyway, they waste funds on things that won't improve the community.
@@MezzoForte4 Exactly what "things" do they waste funds on?
They'll have a chance to find out. You can bet it's coming to their neighborhood.
No big deal. Gavin doesn't shop there anyway.
Instead of society getting smarter as expected, it's getting dumber, and dumber, and dumber...
Idiocracy - The Movie.
All in the name of Diversity. Animals!
They're dumber and they're all victims of something.
@@sailingaeolusidiocracy is a documentary;)
You were expecting us to get smarter? I think we're going full DEVO.
2:06, security can’t do anything about anything. If they did, it would be a Banko Brown incident.
You voted for this.
Train the employees? To not put their lives in front of merchandise? Hire private security? To not engage? Hire more police? To not arrest or charge thieves of anything? What do you expect? 🙄
There was a retail outlet, not Target, they had a female thief, she put stuff in her clothes, when they cornered the female thief and attempt to take the merchandise back she filed a sexual molestation complaint and the two security guards were fired. This is "woke", get born with a vagina, rob the world blind.
You can’t hire more police when you don’t support them for doing their job or demonize them. Hence they are quitting at record numbers…..and can’t replace them…You can’t arrest thieves when the lawmakers believe theft is petty crime is not a crime and perpetrators should not have bail inquiries if arrested…..how to create a conservative? Give these liberal democrats what they want.
Corporations should all start to do this to send a message that crime will not be tolerated with their business.
They are doing this. There is no choice.
I guess we can politely call this mass theft a "cultural" thing... can't be any more lightly stated than that, or else people call you the r word.
This also affects the employment in the area.
Also, these losses the stores and insurance companies take are passed on to the consumer ( You and I ) !
@@bfranco1519 true. Losing business at a place causes a city to die. It's a parasitic relationship that kills the host, the city.
That good. One of the best things that happened was when Walmart got shutdown in portland. The homeless people had no where to loot everyday, so they migrated to another location. 😂
Whats the matter ? The woke business cant stand its woke customers ?
We dont need more police !!! We need judges to follow the laws and put the THIEVES in jail !!!!
You voted for this. Everyone will be buying online soon, no more physical stores
They'll just transition to porch pirates.
@@garcjrYup. Organized groups will sweep through neighborhoods taking whatever they can.
No. We didn't vote for this. Didn't vote for the changes in our voting laws either.
@@MelissaR784 sure thing, too late to cry about it now. Go ahead and move so you can spread this cancer to other states by voting for the same crap.
"Coming to a neighborhood near you"
Whats even more screwed up, is lot of business'' have to hire private security. Making costs even higher
Bravo Target.
Who's the dummy blaming security?
He’s a typical San Francisco voter……CLUELESS, WOKE, AND PROGRESSIVE
As Asset protection managers and associates we are beyond frustrated. Most of us in this position actually care about communities we work in. I’m the Ap manager at a JCPenney and for sure this is all political! Make shoplifting a crime again! 🤦♂️ back in the day you would get tackled on the concrete for a candy bar!!! People might say excessive, but I say it’s necessary or else it’s only going to get worse! The culture of “You can just walk out and they can’t do anything” is getting out of hand! And it’s true we can’t do anything and Police don’t respond
I left the Bay Area in 2003. DEFINITELY not coming back.
'We've lost a lot of our tax base due to remote staffing and business downsizing after the pandemic. ~SF City Mayor.
London Breed is a waste of space.
This is so unfair. Where are people going to be allowed to legally shoplift now?
I went to the Target on Folsom once -- its not even recognizable as a Target on the inside. Every refrigerator and sanitary product is locked up and you need someone to manually come and unlock it. And theres a tall gated fence around the store almost like in the middle of a warzone.
Wow. That's crazy. I don't blame them, tho.
Because it IS a war zone. Ukraine is safer.
America after BLM is a sad place.
and that still wasn't enough. until these cities actually get tougher on crime, this will continue to happen.
it is in a war zone.
When you make things too expensive people are going to steal.
Matt thinks hiring more police is the answer. Hahahaha! These people are so clueless.
Repeal Prop 47
The Only answer is a free for all with the goons.
The Only answer is a free for all with the goons.
@@AK-bt6es Throws some butts in jails.
@@AK-bt6es Uh. The answer is really simple- put criminals in jail. Hard to steal when you are in a cage.
This is a win fir Amazon
The target in oakland was doomed from the start. Every single time I visited there I observed someone trying to steal something or some kids trying to return stolen goods. Security would try to stop them but they would just run out of the store and the police would take forever to arrive.
Agreed. When they legalized drug possession in Oregon for whyte folks it had a worse effect. Cheers!!
My heart goes out to the criminals whose shoplifting options are really starting to dwindle. You know times are tough when even crooks start feeling the pinch.
Nah, they will move where there are still Targets, Walmarts, etc.
Don't believe everything you hear
Wow, you're sick in the head. Screw thieves making my job and life way worse
Homes
Yeah ... they should sue Target
Yeah didn't a store fire an employee that stopped a shoplifter....well homeless duh
They should have never opened that broadway st oakland location it was only open for a few years.
Defund The Police they said
It will be fun they said
It is! I'm actually very happy this happened.
Maybe other areas will follow our example.
Summer of love they said
Police don’t actually stop crime. They barely even react to it. There’s a cop on every corner in Oakland but strangely they are never around when you need them.
@@leighbotts9694Tell us all how you dropped out in 5th grade….what an ignorant comment.
In the olden days Target would handcuffed and arrested and make them pay restitution now they can't do nothing about it