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I remember going out to the Safeway near Castro sometime late at night, and while minding my own business I see two guards doing an NFL chase and tackle on a sh
by flyinglizard 5y ago
I remember going out to the Safeway near Castro sometime late at night, and while minding my own business I see two guards doing an NFL chase and tackle on a shoplifter which attempted to run out. That was a while ago, 2015 or so. I understood it's a very routine thing, happened every night sometimes multiple times.
SF to me feels like a cautionary tale of a city that had everything going for it but mismanages its fortunes all the way to the ground, very much like a national Resource Curse.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoWhat do you suppose they did to cause this? I'm genuinely asking because I'm drawing a blank.
- flyinglizard 5y agoThe city became insanely rich and successful due to external factors. It never had to enact reasonable public policies around housing, policing or development because money and people just accumulated regardless. It became a testbed for the insane and incompetent.
- yyeess 5y agoAggregate increases in petty crime, robbery, etc. always have a socioeconomic precedent. As a result of being ruled by capital and neoliberal policymaking, SF has rapidly become unfit for those who previously lived there. The neoliberals themselves will blame it on policies like rent control, suggesting that the free hand of the market would solve everything if given a chance. But the contemporary United States, and especially California, is itself the most radical experiment of free market solutions on Earth.
- dang 5y agoWe've banned this account for using HN for ideological flamewar. That's not allowed on HN, regardless of what you're flaming for; nor are single-purpose accounts generally. If you'd please not create accounts to break HN's rules with, we'd appreciate it. Everything here is there for good reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- rabbitonrails 5y agoWhat?
- jimmont 5y agoplease post this link to the news guidelines in the UI for submitting https://news.ycombinator.com/submit https://news.ycombinator.com/submit https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- proc0 5y agoIt's mostly politics and people being extremely oblivious. At some point you're just a dumb person for not seeing what's right in front of you.
- fullshark 5y agoAll the families got priced out
- adfm 5y agoI was always lead to believe that particular Safeway was purpose-built for Nikita Khrushchev to ogle produce[^1]. Why should we still think it's reasonable to promote something that was never meant to exist beyond a cold war photo op? Two guards? Why do we need grocery stores with two guards? It's definitely an impressively large space, but supermarkets are such a twentieth century gimmick. [^1]: https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/bcody99/2020/09/07/a-day-at-the-supermarket-with-nikita-khrushchev/ https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/bcody99/2020/09/07/a-day-at-the-supe...