many democratic run cities. burglaries have shot up 62% since last year. parents are afraid to let their kids play outside. so when you let the little things go it leads to bigger things happening and now we are seeing whole stores be enclosed in the elderly being affected. trace: you have a retail organized gang going store to store. they are ripping off $1,000 with of stuff, walking out. they know there are no consequences. on this walgreens thing, they spent 35 times the dollar amount on security guards in walgreens and san francisco than at their stores and the rest of the country and by the way the shoplifter that tony was talking about was taking hair products. not stuff you needed to stay alive and eat. it was hair products. automatically assumed maybe he s taking medication or medication from his family and he had to be corrected which is
something you need. trace: they are not getting rich but the people who are actually owning these businesses are getting poor because they getting ripped off left and right. yeah, can i go to tony s home, the cbs correspondent, and take some stuff from there? it won t be anything terribly expensive so that should make it okay or how about the cvs store on broadway? is that still open? can i just take a big and fill it with items? shoplifting has forced 17 walgreens to closing san francisco alone. think about the jobs lost. more importantly if you re elderly and san francisco isn t a great town to own a car in and you need to get to a pharmacy like walgreens and it was close to her house but that it was close to because they couldn t handle shoplifting anymore, that s a big problem. it s all because of something called prop 47, a referendum that lowered the penalty for stealing items under $950 from a family to a misdemeanor. crime is a huge problem in san francisco like it is in so