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'Crime is basically legal in San Francisco':

• https://www.dailymail.co, By BRIAN STIEGLITZ

A video posted to Instagram captures yet another brazen act of shoplifting in San Francisco, this time at the luxury department store Neiman Marcus where at least ten people stole armfuls of designer goods and then fled without anyone trying to stop them. 

The footage reveals the shoplifters leaving the Union Square store, each carrying bags of stolen items with the security tags still dangling off of them. The perpetrators then ran in different directions, with a few speeding away from the scene in a white sedan.

One person watching says, 'They can't do anything,' perhaps referring to security at Neiman Marcus.

Shoplifting cases are all too common in San Francisco, where charges of property theft less than $950 in value was downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor in 2014 - meaning that store staff and security do not persue or stop thieves who have taken anything worth less than $1,000.

The person who posted the video wrote a message demanding San Francisco crackdown on shoplifters and called for District Attorney of San Francisco Chesa Boudin to be removed from office.

'Everyone in the city is tired of this so please sign the recall petition to oust Chesa Boudin now! Crime is legal basically and allowed and tolerated due to policies put in place and supported by all our supervisors and mayor and DA,' Instagram user sfstreets415, whose bio reads, 'Asian photographer and crime reporter,' wrote. 

The petition was first launched in March to recall Boudin, who has come under fire in recent years, along with the city's leadership, for allegedly not doing enough to combat San Francisco's shoplifting problem. 


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