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It’s no coincidence that crime is on the rise in California. A fish rots from the head and, when it comes to lawlessness, California is rotten from the top down.
. . . "One can point to all the usual suspects. A breakdown in societal norms. The absence of fathers in the lives of at-risk youth. The abandonment of Judeo-Christian morality. The failure to police small crimes, leading to large crimes (the broken window theory). A systemic aversion to using the law to intervene with minorities, lest one be accused of racism, giving youth who would otherwise be law-abiding carte blanche to go on crime sprees. Too few police officers. Passive police officers in the years following the “Black lives matter, blue lives don’t” movement. I’m sure all of those things play a role."Here in San Francisco and other parts of California, though, I think there’s something both larger and very specific going on.Have you all heard the expression that “the fish rots from the head”? I’m guessing that some of you young’uns haven’t. It means that in an organization, if the head of that organization is corrupt, that corruption will inevitable trickle down, eventually permeating the entire organization.Since 1989, San Francisco has been a “sanctuary city.” What this means is that it aggressively encourages lawlessness within its borders. Illegal aliens who find themselves in San Francisco are pretty much immune to any serious consequences, not just for being in the country illegally, but for any other crimes they might have committed along the way. Putting an illegal alien in the criminal justice cross hairs runs the risk that federal immigration authorities might nab that criminal and return him to his country of origin.
An NBC Bay Area hidden-camera investigation provides a rare glimpse into a rising surge of criminal activity across San Francisco that continues to prey on the city's most famed landmarks and popular tourist destinations. San Francisco's nearly 30,000 car break-ins last year shattered previous crime records and illustrate an organized and elaborate crime operation that law enforcement calls an "epidemic."
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