Jul 2, 2023 02:14 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul 2, 2023 02:45 PM by C C.)
The world is watching in disbelief as France tears itself apart
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the...r-AA1diUJm
EXCERPTS: Macron is losing control of France. Thousands of arrests. Torched schools, community centres, city halls, sports complexes, post offices. Looting ranging from Lidl supermarkets to Apple Stores.
[...] And, after five days’ rioting across France, a rising sentiment that the current situation is largely the result of almost a quarter century of craven governments neglecting essential law and order.
Nihilistic destruction has been tolerated in France for something like a quarter century. It started around the millennium, under the Chirac presidency.
[...] If this sounds like bad policing, it’s because it is: the flics [cops], too, badly paid and badly trained, are deeply demoralised by such inconsistent stop-and-go practices.
[...] President Emmanuel Macron is aware of the Black Lives Matter/George Floyd scenario. This is why he dithered: having waited three full days before sending out the gendarmerie, at the time of writing, he was still hesitant to impose a curfew or get the Army to patrol the streets. Meanwhile the situation shows little sign of abating... (MORE - missing details)
The crisis that is devastating San Francisco (crime, Fentanyl, & population exodus)
https://youtu.be/9Y7NO9lgDuU
VIDEO EXCERPTS: . . . since 2020 crime has skyrocketed again. I know it wasn't because of the pandemic but because of a new political strategy the strategy of former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin. Since his election in 2020, Boudin promised to be more flexible with those who committed minor and non-violent offenses.
In other words, basically a free hand was given and the result was a real disaster. Suddenly the citizens of San Francisco found themselves with a prosecutor who would allow repeat offenders to return to the streets without a penalty.
[...] I'm sure many of you are asking yourselves then what on Earth was this prosecutor thinking? Well, among other things he was thinking the significant percentage of people selling drugs in San Francisco are here from Honduras.
"We need to be mindful about the impact our interventions have some of these young men have been trafficked here under pain of death. Some of them have had family members in Honduras who have been or will be harmed if they don't continue to pay off traffickers." Boudin in a 2020 virtual town hall meeting.
The idea was to facilitate reintegration and relieve the pressure on the prison system. The problem is that the scheme did not have sufficient resources and the strategy was not well implemented.
The situation became so out of control that in 2022 it was estimated that San Francisco citizens had a 1 in 16 chance of experiencing a violent or property crime, and that has led to news stories like this one San Francisco. Crime crisis in spotlight after Whole Foods closure.
Indeed the lack of security crisis that the city has been experiencing has even forced stores to modify their opening hours to avoid robberies. Or as in the case of the Whole Foods supermarket chain to close down one of its flagship stores. In fact, since its opening in March 2022 robberies at the establishment were so frequent that the business became unprofitable. Of course lack of security was not the only problem. Whole Foods cited as a reason for closing there was another problem...
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9Y7NO9lgDuU
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the...r-AA1diUJm
EXCERPTS: Macron is losing control of France. Thousands of arrests. Torched schools, community centres, city halls, sports complexes, post offices. Looting ranging from Lidl supermarkets to Apple Stores.
[...] And, after five days’ rioting across France, a rising sentiment that the current situation is largely the result of almost a quarter century of craven governments neglecting essential law and order.
Nihilistic destruction has been tolerated in France for something like a quarter century. It started around the millennium, under the Chirac presidency.
[...] If this sounds like bad policing, it’s because it is: the flics [cops], too, badly paid and badly trained, are deeply demoralised by such inconsistent stop-and-go practices.
[...] President Emmanuel Macron is aware of the Black Lives Matter/George Floyd scenario. This is why he dithered: having waited three full days before sending out the gendarmerie, at the time of writing, he was still hesitant to impose a curfew or get the Army to patrol the streets. Meanwhile the situation shows little sign of abating... (MORE - missing details)
The crisis that is devastating San Francisco (crime, Fentanyl, & population exodus)
https://youtu.be/9Y7NO9lgDuU
VIDEO EXCERPTS: . . . since 2020 crime has skyrocketed again. I know it wasn't because of the pandemic but because of a new political strategy the strategy of former San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin. Since his election in 2020, Boudin promised to be more flexible with those who committed minor and non-violent offenses.
In other words, basically a free hand was given and the result was a real disaster. Suddenly the citizens of San Francisco found themselves with a prosecutor who would allow repeat offenders to return to the streets without a penalty.
[...] I'm sure many of you are asking yourselves then what on Earth was this prosecutor thinking? Well, among other things he was thinking the significant percentage of people selling drugs in San Francisco are here from Honduras.
"We need to be mindful about the impact our interventions have some of these young men have been trafficked here under pain of death. Some of them have had family members in Honduras who have been or will be harmed if they don't continue to pay off traffickers." Boudin in a 2020 virtual town hall meeting.
The idea was to facilitate reintegration and relieve the pressure on the prison system. The problem is that the scheme did not have sufficient resources and the strategy was not well implemented.
The situation became so out of control that in 2022 it was estimated that San Francisco citizens had a 1 in 16 chance of experiencing a violent or property crime, and that has led to news stories like this one San Francisco. Crime crisis in spotlight after Whole Foods closure.
Indeed the lack of security crisis that the city has been experiencing has even forced stores to modify their opening hours to avoid robberies. Or as in the case of the Whole Foods supermarket chain to close down one of its flagship stores. In fact, since its opening in March 2022 robberies at the establishment were so frequent that the business became unprofitable. Of course lack of security was not the only problem. Whole Foods cited as a reason for closing there was another problem...