SF moto thief arrested 13 times

[SFMCjohn]

You get the government you vote for....

sometimes ... :thumbup

and sometimes SF gets the government the Police Officers Associations here and around the state and elsewhere try to pay for. :laughing:gsxrgrl

it’s like a seesaw. we got rid of the social worker Mayor and replaced him with a former Police Chief, who got rid of the Civic Center homeless camp ...

anyway, sure I’ll have a motorcycle stolen again here in the city, someday soon probably, and we can all laugh at me for having brought it on myself with my foolish voting ... :teeth

 

[vaara]

Boudin ran on a platform of "restorative justice" - so how will his office deal with this prolific thief? Have him buy new cars and motorcycles for all the people he's victimized? Have a bunch of people from his neighborhood tell him he's been a very naughty boy? (srsly - this is pretty much what one of the tenets of RJ amounts to.)

I live in SF - sending email now.

 

[vaara]

Also: here's another link you can use in case you don't want to link to Twitchy for whatever reason.

https://sfist.com/2020/12/03/tenderloin-suspect-racks-up-13th-vehicle-theft-arrest-in-18-months/

 

[afm199]

Hmmmmm... good info John.

Maybe BARF in general should do something. Actually I know it should, but before I do it would be great to build on this thread with more replies.

For now.. email sent to the DA.

Subject: Town Hall Question - Motorcycle Thieves in SF

:thumbup:thumbup:rofl

Chesa is a he.

 

[Beanzy]

What the thief looks like:

 

[duck_rider]

Wonder if my bike was jacked by him. I found my stolen bike at Hyde and Ellis a couple years ago.

 

[Shaggy]

CC'd the mayor and chief of police.

Dear DA Boudin,
Having been the victim of theft, and having had several of my friends who live in San Francisco have their motorcycles and cars stolen, and work trucks stolen or broken in to and tens of thousands of dollars of tools stolen, I’m a little taken aback to read the post by the SF Police Department about catching a motorcycle thief, and arresting him for the THIRTEENTH time in 18 months.

Link: https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020...aign=nl&bcid=1e297f4dddb3f36a88eea2e9001bb971

How is it that you can feel good about the job you’re doing, when unrepentant scofflaws like this flip the bird and thumb their nose at you and your office, because they know you’re running a “catch and release” program?

I guess you don’t know what it’s like to have just one vehicle to get yourself to work, and no place safe to keep it because you can’t afford any of the “nice” neighborhoods (like yours) in the City.

I’m old enough to remember when San Francisco was a beautiful, clean, safe city. Apparently you are not. Go watch the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt, and see what your city USED to look like… and be ashamed of what it’s become, and what you are NOT doing to make it better.
It is YOUR job as the district attorney to keep the dangerous human detritus off the streets, and make sure that crime actually has CONSEQUENCES.
Do your damn job, Sir.

SF residents voted for Boudin.

Cali residents voted for the laws that ensure thieves can no longer go to prison. This must be the paradise that was voted for, right?

But I was one who warned anyone who would listen.

And yet some people are still totally ok with this. :dunno

Boudin ran on a platform of "restorative justice" - so how will his office deal with this prolific thief? Have him buy new cars and motorcycles for all the people he's victimized? Have a bunch of people from his neighborhood tell him he's been a very naughty boy? (srsly - this is pretty much what one of the tenets of RJ amounts to.)

I live in SF - sending email now.

“We’ve already tried aggressive finger wagging and it didn’t work. I guess there’s nothing we can do....”

 

[SFMCjohn]

“We’ve already tried aggressive finger wagging and it didn’t work. I guess there’s nothing we can do....”

:laughing:thumbup

Shaggy’s here, to provide us with informed opinion on how the SF POA can rid us of our useless DA, if we don’t push him under a bus, first ... :gsxrgrl

we know all those out-of-county/state POA SF-DA-campaign-contributions had keeping moto-thieves off SF streets in mind, right? :teeth

 

[jpoppa]

This must be the same asshole, when i have to go into the city to work on network related issues i was riding my bike. One day the building engineer said "man be careful we have a piss poor wanna be moto thief who ruined my ignition trying to steal my bike." He me told this was $700 repair. He had a 1000$ deductible. If he and i weren't so busy we would catch his ass and deal with it. But you know how downtown is now empty no one around so these assholes do whatever they want. Sucks was enjoying riding in and i have no garage space there when in SF so F it Bart it is.

Motorcycle thieves are the worst, and worse than that is not prosecuting them real shitty......

 

[WeekEndWarrior]

How is it a budget issue when every building in that city is over a Million dollars?

 

[DesiDucati]

Yeah boyee!!!!!!

Thief arrested 13 times in 18 months! :wtf

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/12/03/san-francisco-pd-brags-about-arresting-a-motorcycle-thief-for-the-13th-time-in-18-months/?utm_source=twtydaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=1e297f4dddb3f36a88eea2e9001bb971

So disapointing that the Citizens rights get stepped on in SF.

And this is why I’m so confused by the level of “tolerance” people here have for criminals. Was the justice system always like this? Why and when did it change?

 

[DesiDucati]

SFPD caught the thief of my CBR red handed within minutes and only blocks away ON my bike. DA’s office didn’t feel the need to prosecute as it was his third strike and didn’t feel the sentence would be justified. I WISH this was the only story I could personally share from SF.

Fuck that. That was long before this current moron got into the DA’s chair. My beloved city has become a shit hole due to so many good intentioned but completely moronic folks. There is progressive, and then just plain stupid. SF is just plain stupid.

Does the word progressive now have a negative meaning? Do you think these good intentions will change? I recently learned the idiom the road to hell is paved by good intentions. I think this idiom applies here to crime.

 

[DesiDucati]

Good info George!
Sad that it (always) seems to come down to $$$.

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As for the last sentence in your reply I'd be for a good public tar-and-feathering and drag down the street behind said stolen moto.
Shouldn't cost the county anything.
(and the tar may patch a few potholes)

Does this mean the people in charge of sending criminals to jail also have finicancial reason to not do their job because it’s too expensive?

 

[DesiDucati]

CC'd the mayor and chief of police.

Dear DA Boudin,
Having been the victim of theft, and having had several of my friends who live in San Francisco have their motorcycles and cars stolen, and work trucks stolen or broken in to and tens of thousands of dollars of tools stolen, I’m a little taken aback to read the post by the SF Police Department about catching a motorcycle thief, and arresting him for the THIRTEENTH time in 18 months.

Link: https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020...aign=nl&bcid=1e297f4dddb3f36a88eea2e9001bb971

How is it that you can feel good about the job you’re doing, when unrepentant scofflaws like this flip the bird and thumb their nose at you and your office, because they know you’re running a “catch and release” program?

I guess you don’t know what it’s like to have just one vehicle to get yourself to work, and no place safe to keep it because you can’t afford any of the “nice” neighborhoods (like yours) in the City.

I’m old enough to remember when San Francisco was a beautiful, clean, safe city. Apparently you are not. Go watch the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt, and see what your city USED to look like… and be ashamed of what it’s become, and what you are NOT doing to make it better.
It is YOUR job as the district attorney to keep the dangerous human detritus off the streets, and make sure that crime actually has CONSEQUENCES.
Do your damn job, Sir.

This is so well written, can I repost this on my Twitter?

 

[SFMCjohn]

I’ll post a link here when San Francisco Police Chief William “Bill” Scott has one of his Town Halls. Chief Scott was appointed by Mayor Lee in 2017.

these were the kind of headlines the Chronicle was running when Mr Boudin was campaigning for DA:

SF ranks high in property crime while it ranks low in arrests
sfchronicle.com. Phil Matier Sep. 15, 2019

San Francisco has by far the highest property crime rate in California, with more than twice the number of reported thefts per capita than Los Angeles or Santa Clara counties, according to a new report by the Public Policy Institute of California.

And when it comes to arrests, San Francisco is 50th out of the state’s 58 counties.

tl/dr: Reporter Matier would be a good person to be cc-ing our DA Boudin town hall e-mail questions to. very good local reporter, imo.

anyway, lots of context at the local level. Like any big city there’s no contempt in the HOJ like the contempt between the Police Department and the DA’s office ... :laughing:angel

as we like to say here on teh BARFs, get involved in politics at the local level ...

if Covid ever relents and the San Francisco Motorcycle Club is able to hold our weekly meetings again, I’ll invite you all down to our clubhouse.

we’ve been paying attention since 1904, and have lots of members like me who still love our city ... :toothless

 

[byke]

Reading Boudin's wiki page, I don't think I'd bother sending a letter. What he's doing is hard coded to his core. It'd be like some strangers asking you to completely forget your entire life experience and totally change who you are as a person and to ignore the formula that has brought significant success in life. Literally nobody does that.

 

[SFMCjohn]

Reading Boudin's wiki page, I don't think I'd bother sending a letter. What he's doing is hard coded to his core. It'd be like some strangers asking you to completely forget your entire life experience and totally change who you are as a person and to ignore the formula that has brought significant success in life. Literally nobody does that.

:thumbup

one would think that, since SF always seems to be our nation’s favorite culture wars venue, but I’ve seen DA Boudin answer the tough do-your-job style questions about his policies, and was impressed, which was why I voted for him.

respect our Police Chief, too, and he has lots of compelling things to say to about the eternal property crime issue in SF, and to defend his officers when necessary ... :gsxrgrl

 

[Shaggy]

I’ll post a link here when San Francisco Police Chief William “Bill” Scott has one of his Town Halls. Chief Scott was appointed by Mayor Lee in 2017.

these were the kind of headlines the Chronicle was running when Mr Boudin was campaigning for DA:

SF ranks high in property crime while it ranks low in arrests
sfchronicle.com. Phil Matier Sep. 15, 2019


tl/dr: Reporter Matier would be a good person to be cc-ing our DA Boudin town hall e-mail questions to. very good local reporter, imo.

anyway, lots of context at the local level. Like any big city there’s no contempt in the HOJ like the contempt between the Police Department and the DA’s office ... :laughing:angel

as we like to say here on teh BARFs, get involved in politics at the local level ...

if Covid ever relents and the San Francisco Motorcycle Club is able to hold our weekly meetings again, I’ll invite you all down to our clubhouse.

we’ve been paying attention since 1904, and have lots of members like me still who love our city ... :toothless

The spike in property crime has much stronger ties to AB109, Prop 47, and Prop 57. Chesa Boudin has simply made himself the face for those failures.

 

[SFMCjohn]

The spike in property crime has much stronger ties to AB109, Prop 47, and Prop 57. Chesa Boudin has simply made himself the face for those failures.

yes, he’s the face of those policies. :thumbup

$650,000 from our POA and other out-of-county and out of state POAs, and texts drawing attention away from SF’s state ranking for property crime arrests sure help, though ... :laughing:gsxrgrl

anyway. god bless SF. pro tip: keep an eye on your stuff. :toothless

 

[davidji]

Boudin attends community meetings. He seems to be accessible. This virtual one looks like it was the day before this BARF discussion started:
https://twitter.com/RafaelMandelman/status/1334554588662308864