Monday Schadenfreude: Chesa Boudin gets religion on shoplifting

Monica Showalter   "There's nothing like a smarmy, smug leftist who's realized he's cooked his own goose.

"That brings us to the case of Chesa Boudin, the district attorney of San Francisco, who's effectively legalized shoplifting in the name of "criminal justice reform."  He's prompted massive store closures with ugly videos of broad-daylight robberies on large and small stores.  Boudin's refusal to prosecute has turned San Francisco into another socialist crime pit, Caracas.  And now, like his mentor Hugo Chávez, he's facing a voter recall.

"This seems to be concentrating his mind, given that he's suddenly changing his tune — and comically enough, fooling no one.

"Here's his tweet condemning the brazen open-air robbery on the Louis Vuitton boutique on tony Union Square:" . . .

At first glance I thought this was people knocked to the ground.
Reality: Louis Vuitton was cleared out by robbers Friday night.
I passed Burberry where about a dozen maybe more were starting to vandalize/break in.
Windows at FENDI & YSL were broken too. #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/cVsstKTIg2

— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) November 20, 2021

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"To return to Chesa's tweet, well, that doesn't sound like the Chesa we know, perpetually blaming poverty and racism for this kind of crime, yakking on about "ending incarceration" and the "prison industrial complex."  He does his part to advance "social justice" by refusing to prosecute perpetrators.  What's happened, though, is that small perpetrators have grown into monsters, organized thievery rings, and they are expanding operations.  Around the time Union Square was emptied out, organized thieves targeted the Walnut Creek Nordstrom,
which I know since I've shopped there myself, is an easy BART trip away. 

"Here's the other thing: Boudin has up until now stated that he's letting the little guys go so he can focus on taking down the big guys, the organized crime rings, kind of the same way Joe Biden says his ICE will take down only organized human-smuggling rings and ignore individual illegals.

"How's that going?  . . ."