The best thing about this latest Mark Rober video is that if you know what to look for, you'll see that it matches up with everything I've tried to tell y'all about San Francisco crime:
* SF is the car break-in capital of the USA
* Most car break-ins are not done by Black people
* Most car break-ins are not done by homeless people
* Police are not designed to help you with these car break-ins. Police are designed to abuse Black people.
🤷🏿♂️
The USA is such a racist country, that our reflexive solution to most societal problems, is to find the closest Black population and punish them.
Ending bail reform, recalling progressive DAs, rolling back police accountability measures, and authorizing killer robots, does nothing to end any of these car break-ins.
Notice that the cars the break-in crews jump out of are late model luxury cars, like I said. Lexus. Infiniti. BMW. Benz. Homeless people typically don't have late model luxury cars.
And you should understand why most of the car break-in crews aren't Black. I get pulled over too much in SF. A Black crew would be randomly stopped too much.
San Francisco had a DA that said:
* Stop abusing Black people
* Make the cops do their job
* Stop criminalizing poverty
* Let's go after these professional break-in crews.
And we recalled him for one that said:
* Abuse more Black folk
* Reduce police accountability
* Arrest the homeless
* Break-ins and lawlessness are caused by evil poors
Before David Sacks joined Elon in this anti-woke boardroom at Twitter, where they ended all ERGs, and yelled at a closet full of T-shirts, he funded the recall of San Francisco's progressive DA.
So you see why SF will always have a car break-in problem, for the same reason that the US has so many other problems. All of our solutions are aimed at harming Black folk, when Black folk do almost none of the harm. 🙂🙃
Chesa said "stop hurting Black folk for no reason, and lemme do this"
And SF voters said, "No! Go back to hurting Black folk! We like that better!"
I'm not professing my love for any DA. But the racism of SF voters made this situation where the problem can't get fixed.
If you've had something stolen from your car, know that I've probably been pulled over more times than the person that stole your stuff. SFPD budget is almost $1B/year, just to not follow up on thefts.
A laptop stolen from your car doesn't wind up in a homeless Black person's tent in the Tenderloin. Racism and hate for the homeless makes you believe that lie.
Your laptop goes into a luxury car, then into a Faraday bag, then into a storage container where it is powered down and sits for a while, before being wiped and shipped to another city, where it's listed on Craigslist or another classifieds or auction site.
By volume, that's most of the break-ins. Homeless car smashers are the exception
The stuff I said in this thread is not new. The police know this. The DAs know this. Journalists know this. Politicians know this. And Black people know this.
The only people that don't know this, are non-Black voters.🤷🏿♂️
So ask yourself why all of the actions we take (stories published, laws passed and enforced), do the exact opposite of what would be helpful in reducing car break-ins.
And these actions ain't cheap! Almost a billion, remember? And they're not harmless. Black folk suffer.
Every few years they bust one of these crews, and car break-ins drop by double digit % for a while. Then a new crew moves in.
2018 (2000 laptops)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/31/thousands-of-stolen-laptops-recovered-in-massive-bay-area-car-burglary-scheme/
2021 (1000 devices)
https://abc7news.com/international-fencing-operation-sf-boba-shop-chesa-boudin-san-francisco-car-break-ins/11835215/
The scale of reported car break-ins in the city is ~3000 / month in a good month. So 1 crew is capable of being a significant % of that.
That's as good as it gets for data, as SFPD only makes arrests in <2% of car break-ins.
Chesa complained that his office files charges in 86% of the commercial burglary cases brought to his office, but 86% of 2% isn't very much. Car break-ins are a similar story.
So he set up the sting operation himself.
An interesting inversion of the data question is: I just showed tens of millions stolen and fenced by professional car break-in crews. Can anyone show tens of millions stolen by unhoused people living in tents?
This story, for example:
(TL:DR wealthy white dude bros were responsible for a huge catalytic converter crime ring)
@mekkaokereke Way back I used to repair people's computers and partner with local stores for drop offs and pickups. One started asking me to reset laptops, flat fee, no data recovery, sometimes had a power brick sometimes they'd ask me to get one. I did one but then asked more questions and they were for sure stolen. I backed the hell away.
I can still remember the girl who set it up. "What's the matter? It's not hurting you."
@mekkaokereke took me a few years to learn to trust sf voters to go for the vilest, most dehumanizing option.
How proud people were that they made measure Q a reality in 2016… I was shocked then but ugh, it’s a pattern.
" All of our solutions are aimed at harming Black folk, when Black folk do almost none of the harm."
Oh, dang.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted not to allow police to deploy robots authorized to use lethal force on Tuesday. The proposal to use lethal force robots is part of a broader piece of legislation authorizing San Francisco PD to obtain and use military gear. Tuesday’s vote will send the […]
@mekkaokereke when i moved to the SF area, I was amazed by how the residents will villify the homeless for mental health/addiction struggles. My theory is that it's easier to believe that you'll never become that vulnerable if there's something different about you and the person you're stepping over.
My experience with living in american cities is limited to the bay area, but it's definitely a punishment based approach to working with the community :/
@mekkaokereke @donmelton this is mostly the result of large national crime organizations. Here’s one the Justice Dept took down and seized half a billion dollars from.
Federal, state, and local law enforcement partners from across the United States executed a nationwide, coordinated takedown today of leaders and associates of a national network of thieves, dealers, and processors for their roles in conspiracies involving stolen catalytic converters sold to a metal refinery for tens of millions of dollars.
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