San Fran vs Chicago

This is in San Francisco:

• San Francisco police said they have arrested eight retail suspects as young as 12 years old, who they believe are responsible for 23 incidents at various Walgreens' stores totaling more than $84,000 in stolen merchandise.

  In a news release on Thursday, police identified the oldest suspect as Brandon McClain, 18, of Hayward, who was arrested on suspicion of grand theft and retail theft. He was also arrested on suspicion of a carjacking this month with a 15-year-old, police said.

  The 12-year-old from San Francisco was charged with assault, robbery, burglary, grand theft, organized retail theft and petty theft, according to San Francisco Police Officer Paulina Henderson.

  The other suspects are 14 and 15 years old who live in San Francisco, Oakland, Pittsburg and Oakley. They were all charged with various counts of theft.

Amusingly, the media had shown up at this particular Walgreens a few days prior to report on the high rate of theft, and while they were filming, the shoplifting crew stuck again....and again....and again. Three times in the hour or so they were filming.

This is Chicago:

• A small area of retail shopping inside less than half a square mile of the North Side emerged last year as a hot spot for shoplifting in Chicago, according to a new study.

  A report by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan policy group in Washington, says the city’s annual shoplifting rate per 100,000 people fell significantly in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. And the city’s retail theft rate in 2023 was lower than in 2018, the report says.

  But that rate skyrocketed 46% in Chicago this year through October compared with the same period of 2023, the report says. This year’s shoplifting rate is also higher than the same period of any of the past six years in the city.

Both dem cities, run by morons, and the "justice" system that only protects criminals from having to serve time.

If you want to see something REALLY amusing, check out the biographies of Crimesha Foxx and Chesa Boudin - almost identical "progressive," Soros-funded, "de-carceration" freak shows that pretty much ruined two decent cities.