[mhouse]

You missed a crucial part of the quote:

> The retail executives and police officers emphasized the role of organized crime in the thefts. And they told the supervisors that Proposition 47, the 2014 ballot measure that reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods are worth less than $950, had emboldened thieves.

You are quoting the police and business owners, who are very much a biased source. How do they know what the causes are? Do you think they've commissioned a survey or done research? It's just as possible they were against Proposition 47 to begin with and the NYT is supporting their agenda for their own reasons.

[mike_d]

You must have missed the 8 million dollars in stolen merchandise they recently recovered from a retail theft ring here. You don't need a multi-year study to figure out that this shit is getting out of control.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/06/major-san-franc...

[raverbashing]

I feel if we had Godzilla invading the city and start ripping people apart there would be still people questioning "hey is it even Godzilla doing that? I'm not convinced by the evidence"

[aksss]

Followed by the inevitable interrogation of our past opinions of Godzilla, criticisms that Godzilla has needs too, and that our displeasure with Godzilla ripping people apart is evidence of our structural bias against and exploitation of Godzilla.