Due to the woke policies of letting criminals run free, effectively legalizing shoplifting, and marginalizing police, shoplifting is out of control in California. For every problem created by liberals, there is a liberal solution:

The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office warned a chain retail store that it could face a public nuisance charge due to a large number of phone calls placed to police when thieves repeatedly stole from its Land Park location.

This particular store is a Target.

The alleged warning issued by Sacramento city officials — and similar actions by other cities across the state — prompted lawmakers to add an amendment to a retail theft bill that would outlaw such threats made by authorities. Pursuing legal actions against businesses for reporting crime brought heavy criticism from law enforcement.

No doubt this criticism constitutes evidence of systemic racism, for reasons of disparate impact.

The alleged warnings by city officials statewide may affect what crime data is reported as businesses contend with the potential of facing legal action for reporting retail theft…

Threaten to fine people for reporting crime and presto: lower official crime rate. No wonder liberals regard themselves as so much smarter than the law-abiding little people they rule over.

Stores themselves aren’t the only victims:

Land Park Community Association members said the frequent criminal activity at the Target has prompted residents to record instances of crime, according one report by Ch. 13, the Sacramento CBS affiliate. Kristina Rogers, president of the association, also complained in the report about how the crime hitting the business bleeds into the neighborhood.

A rising tide lifts all boats. Moonbattery has the opposite effect.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.

If it would please you to sexually mutilate your child but the other parent objects, head to the erstwhile Golden State. Authorities will go to extremes to take you side:

“My ex-wife, Anne Georgulas, wants to castrate my son, James,” Jeff Younger, the father, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. James is 12 years old. “Judge Michelle Kazadi denied me access to my own case records. She illegally sealed my case with no public access.”

The trial has been made secret à la Star Chamber. The process is so rigged that Younger can’t even get an independent medical examnation of his son.

Normally the moving vans go from California to Texas. But sometimes people have reason to move the other way:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an official opinion on Feb. 18, 2022, stating that performing any sterilizing medical procedure on a child constitutes felony child abuse. Georgulas later described Texas as having a “dangerous political climate,” and she moved to California in November 2022. Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., had signed state Senate Bill 107, turning California into a “sanctuary state” for “gender-affirming care.”

“Bottom surgery” may be the fate awaiting the 12-year-old boy whose mother evidently decided he wants to be a girl at least 8 years ago. It would be difficult to overstate the evil of inflicting the LGBT agenda on children.

On a tip from R F.

No need to wonder what America will look like if Democrats achieve their demographic and political objectives; 68% nonwhite, 80% Democrat Oakland is already there:

An Oakland gas station manager [was] expressing anger and frustration Friday after dozens of people ransacked his business overnight – and to make matters worse, he says police never showed up after he called for help. …

Station manager Sam Mardaie believes some 80 to 100 people took part – apparently unhappy that they weren’t allowed inside the station and only offering window service which was normal for that time of night.

The looting started around 4:30 a.m. and went on for 40 minutes.

Mardaie estimates that the damage and theft totals are more than $100,000.

A small price to pay for social justice.

Mardaie and his family took over the business less than a year ago.

The marginalized police did finally show up:

It was only after a video of the mass looting was shared with the department that it was raised to a Priority 1 and an officer was sent to the store nine hours after the robbery began…

Liberal readers will be pleased to note that none of the looters appeared to be worried about the police inflicting systemic racism.

On tips from Wiggins and WDS 2.0.

Where Democrat anarchotyranny has been established as in San Francisco, running a business is challenging:

Cigarettes Cheaper, a family-owned small business […] has been broken into and ransacked on four different occasions, according to Bashir, the store’s owner. …

“How many times do we have to go through this? I get it (if it’s) once or twice, but it just continues to happen,” Bashir said. “I think we’re at the verge to just completely close our shop because the profit is not that great. All we’re trying to do is maintain. Everything’s expensive. The rent is up, employee (costs) are high, and on top, (we have) to deal with this.”

Welcome to California now that Democrats have consolidated control.

The store is walled with interior fencing because of previous break-ins, but Bashier said the thieves used a car to ram through it […]

Disposable cars are easy to come by in California. Just steal one. In the name of Critical Race Theory, police have been marginalized to the point of irrelevance.

Costs are estimated to be in the tens of thousands from stolen items […] and the damage to the storefront.

Another benefit of living in Gavin Newsom Land:

“There’s no insurance. State Farm has completely kicked us out because they call the state of California a hot spot,” Bashir said. “I don’t blame them because they’re here for business, not to just continue to give you money. So, there’s chaos going on here (and) they cancelled everybody’s policy. They won’t give insurance because they know the outcome.”

See here for more on State Farm giving up on the erstwhile Golden State.

The police did chase the criminals. But then they crashed into a police car and ran away. At last word, no arrests had been made.

Municipal bureaurats realized Bashir had not been sufficiently punished for trying to run a business, so…

Want to turn the whole country into this? Vote Democrat.

On a tip from seaoh.

These days the American dream of owning their own home is beyond the reach of many young people, mainly due to the crushing burden of excessive government, which has driven up interest rates and the cost of housing. Their problem is, they are going about it the wrong way. Instead of getting a job and working hard so they can afford a mortgage, they should quit their jobs, blow their money on fentanyl, and spend their time defecating on the sidewalk. That would earn them the reverence of the liberal establishment, which bestows extravagant privileges on those it adores — including luxury housing. No need to own a home when Big Government provides for you:

It would be nice to think that at some point, the people who are effectively enslaved through taxation so as to pay for this will push back. But apparently it is too late for that to happen in California.

On tips from WDS 2.0, Franco, and Wiggins.

As mentioned earlier, throw the broken windows theory into reverse and crime quickly spirals out of control. Secret Service agents are tasked with protecting the president, but in the mess Democrats have made of California, it’s all they can do to protect themselves:

A United States Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint over the weekend in California and fired his gun during the incident, according to local and federal law enforcement agencies.

The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday near a residential community in Orange County as the agent was returning from a work assignment. The agent had his bag stolen at gunpoint, according to a release from the Tustin Police Department.

As usual, the bad guy got away. Speaking of bad guys, this is probably why the agent was in metro LA:

Joe Biden was in Los Angeles for a fundraiser event at the Peacock Theater on Saturday evening. The president returned to his Los Angeles hotel shortly before 9 p.m.

Senate candidate and prominent Russia collusion hoaxer Adam Schiff was recently carjacked in San Francisco on his way to a fundraiser.

Biden had better not carry cash on fundraising junkets to the erstwhile golden state; he is likely to get mugged by his own base.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and Mr. Freemarket.

Thanks go to the erstwhile Golden State for warning us what we have to look forward to if we do not pry Democrats from power and reject leftism root and branch:

This represents an inevitable progression from previous scenes of shopping in California:

Shoplifting is effectively legal in California. Smashing through the front of a store so as to loot it is still against the law (until such law is found to have a disparate impact on Persons of Preferred Pigmentation), but by now it hardly matters. By encouraging low-level crime, California has thrown the broken windows theory into reverse and then into overdrive.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Betraying their country by offering sanctuary status to illegal aliens wasn’t enough for the moonbats running San Francisco. Now this privilege is extended to transsexuals — and to those who create them:

The city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday in favor of the sanctuary status…

Because their imaginary oppressors do not exist, bestowing sanctuary status upon transsexual crybullies is meaningless. But wait:

The resolution symbolically indicates those identifying as transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and two-spirit are safe to seek transitioning health care and that providers are similarly safe, Los Angeles’ FOX 11 reported.

In this context, “healthcare providers” is Liberalese for doctors of the Moreau if not Mengele stripe who inflict horrific and irreversible sex change procedures — often on children, who cannot consent.

“We have seen an influx of refugees, not just from other countries, but from other states who are seeking care and seeking sanctuary,” said San Francisco’s director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives, Honey Mahogany…

The “refugees” Mr. Mahogany refers to will include liberal parents who seek to obtain a trophy transsexual child in contravention of local laws.

The resolution comes as liberal-run communities express concern over laws cracking down on gender procedures, particularly for minors, in red states across the nation.

San Francisco’s posturing is all theater. The entire state is already a sanctuary for people who make money sterilizing and sexually disfiguring children:

Gavin Newsom signed a law in 2022 protecting transgender procedures in California by blocking state officials from enforcing other states’ laws that crack down on transgender surgeries and drugs.

Centuries from now, America may be less remembered for the Constitution, flight, splitting the atom, and reaching the moon than for what leftists have done to innocent children to advance their sick ideology.

On a tip from Jack D.

The system of government under moonbat rule is called “anarchotyranny.” In liberal jurisdictions like California, criminals are allowed to run riot to the point that traffic lights cannot be maintained and Senate candidates are subjected to carjackings. Burglary tourism draws criminals from as far away as Chile. Meanwhile,

A California mother was slapped with a fine worth $88,000 after her kids mistakenly collected clams — thinking they were picking up seashells — on the beach without a fishing license.

Charlotte Russ was on a family trip to Pismo Beach, known as the “Clam Capital of the World,” when she said her kids picked up 72 clams from the clamming hotspot during their getaway, according to ABC 7.

Fortunately a judge knocked her fine down to $500. Too bad the 77-year-old Oakland resident who recently defended himself from a burglar might not be so lucky:

Even Los Angeles socialites can get in trouble with the law — just not as much trouble:

The heartbroken mother of the two young boys whom an LA socialite killed in a hit-and-run crash said it felt as if she was “stabbed in the heart” when she learned the murderer’s fate.

Rebecca Grossman was sentenced on Monday to 15 years to life in prison for killing brothers Jacob, 8, and Mark Iskander [11], while prosecutors demanded she receive the maximum sentence of 34 years to life in state prison.

Grossman was racing her car while drunk through a residential neighborhood when she killed the little kids. She will be eligible for parole in 9 years, at which time Jacob and Mark will still be dead. But she did have to pay $47,161.89 in restitution. Good thing she didn’t collect any clams.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.

Our Marxist future continues to unfold in San Francisco. Now that businesses have been driven out because shoplifting is effectively legal there, the next logical step is free food markets:

San Francisco opened its first $5.5 million free food “market”, where approved residents can show a benefits eligibility card, put what they want in their carts, check out to keep track of outgoing inventory, and leave without paying.

The Bayview-Hunters Point facility aims to be a food pantry alternative that replicates the supermarket experience in an area where many grocery stores have come but few have remained due to high crime.

Authorities say this is necessary because food stamps do not provide enough free food due to inflation. The inflation is mainly driven by government spending.

The 4000-square foot District 10 Market is the first of San Francisco’s food empowerment “markets” funded by the San Francisco’s Human Services Agency.

That is, funded by taxpayers who have not yet escaped the area. When the entire state has been emptied of taxpayers, California will get a federal bailout — if the whole country has not followed it down the tubes by then.

Speaking of jurisdictions going down the tubes, Chicago’s ultramoonbat mayor has called for government grocery stores. If you like the DMV, you’ll love relying on leftist bureaucrats for food.

On a tip from Wiggins.

What to do when leftist tyranny is driving out the tax base and you have emptied the treasury providing free healthcare and sex-change surgeries to illegal aliens? For Gavin Newsom, the solution is simple: stop spending on public safety. Leadership is all about priorities:

The California Democrat’s proposed budget, released in May, notes that “difficult decisions” are necessary to address the estimated $27.6 billion deficit, which is projected to continue for years to come. It includes a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Department of Justice’s Division of Law Enforcement and more than $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Meanwhile,

Newsom proposed shifting money from the general fund, offering $1.7 billion for climate goals, particularly those related to “equity programs.”

There is nothing wrong with the climate, nor could California Democrats do anything about it if there were. They may as well flush the money down the toilet.

Also meanwhile,

Since the beginning of the year, there have been 8,686 thefts in San Francisco, not including 1,962 burglaries and 2,298 motor vehicle thefts, according to the latest available crime stats.

Detroit was once the wealthiest city in the country. Then it succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral, whereby demographic transformation leads to Democrats getting elected, leading to leftist policies that drive out productive citizens, leading to more Democrats getting elected in a vicious cycle that inevitably produces economic and societal collapse. The erstwhile Golden State is going down the same drain.

On a tip from WDS 2.0. Graphic compliments of Chuck A.

Under moonbat rule, everything is rigged to favor blacks at the expense of whites — including fundamental aspects of government like criminal justice. Once again, California leads the way into insanity:

The Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020 without meaningful public review, turns long-standing academic tropes about implicit bias and white privilege into potent legal tools. And the floodgates are about to open. Starting this year, the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge his conviction and sentencing retroactively on the ground of systemic racial bias.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. The system is biased not in favor of blacks but against them:

The Racial Justice Act operationalizes the proposition that every aspect of the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks. But according to the act’s legislative authors, it’s too hard to prove such bias in the case of individual arrests and prosecutions. Therefore, the act does away with the concept of individual fault and individual proof.

Mark Twain listed three kinds of lies in escalating order of their perniciousness: lies, damned lies, and statistics:

From now on in California, statistics purporting to show a pattern of bias in the past are enough to invalidate a current arrest, criminal charge, or judicial sentence.

Effectively this means that since blacks are more likely to commit crimes, they cannot be punished, because that would have a disparate impact.

Big Government’s thumb is heavy upon the scales of justice:

The California legislature gave the Office of the State Public Defender over $5 million in 2023 to litigate RJA claims. No money was allocated to district attorneys’ offices to defend against those claims.

Blacks are 17 times as likely as whites to be murdered in Los Angeles. That figure will rise as ever more black criminals are unleashed upon their communities, since they are the ones doing the killing. Liberals will happily seize on this as further evidence that blacks are oppressed and deserve even more favoritism.

On a tip from R F.

Meanwhile, as Californians go without traffic lights because they cannot be maintained due to prevailing lawlessness, they also have to go without exercising outdoors due to prevailing excessive government. From San Diego:

A revision to the municipal code made it illegal for groups of four or more people to convene in public spaces for commercial recreational activities without a government stamp of approval.

To be “commercial” does not require money changing hands:

“It’s really tragic that the city would take away the opportunity to come to a class for free, to be outside in a public park, and to enjoy nature,” Amy Baack, a yoga instructor, told San Diego’s KGTV station. And despite what might be the gut reaction here—”Just get a permit!”—it appears the city isn’t making that easy: “We are perfectly willing and ready to get a permit,” Baack added, “if the city would allow it.”

Big Government bureauweenies put you in a round room and command you to pee in the corner.

San Diego says the core issue at stake is safety.

How would we ever be safe if not for the liberals who have driven the rate of violent crime into the stratosphere by promoting black criminality, marginalizing police, letting criminals run free, and disarming law-abiding citizens?

In California as in all parts of the USA where leftists have consolidated control, the system of government is anarchotyranny.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

For a preview of America after the collapse of civilization, look to Oakland, where progressives have already achieved their demographic objectives. Utopia will not feature traffic lights:

A California city removed the traffic lights from a four-way intersection as the city grapples with thefts attributed to a massive homeless encampment nearby.

Oakland has been experiencing high crime and theft, including people stealing copper wires and the city’s infrastructure, according to locals who spoke to CBS News.

Bums have been stealing not only the wire but the electricity itself, thereby screwing up the traffic lights.

The city attempted to thwart criminals tampering with its electrical boxes by placing cement barriers over them – to no avail. Now, the city has taken to removing the traffic lights at a busy intersection and replacing them with stop signs.

Flushing away the drug-addled derelicts is out of the question. California spends a great deal of other people’s money to grow its impressive homeless population.

No worries. If Democrats remain in control of California, so few will be able to afford to drive that traffic lights won’t be needed anyway.

On tips from Barry A and Steve T.