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Violence In California Reaches "Epidemic" Levels As Our Society
Rapidly Deteriorates All Around Us

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/violence-in-california-reaches-epidemic-levels-as-our-society-rapidly-deteriorates-all-around-us/
https://twitter.com/StokingFreedom/status/1569726738355339266

http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/they-have-been-destroying-our-culture-for-decades-and-we-can-see-it-degenerating-right-in-front-of-our-eyes
https://studyfinds.org/california-violence-epidemic/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/964210
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/09/13/decline-in-americans-quality-of-life-just-keeps-accelerating-n496213
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-shoplifting-rising-retail-20220901.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/nearly-200000-in-stolen-goods-seized-in-san-francisco-retail-theft-bust/
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1490130669875253250
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11206757/Progressives-turned-San-Fran-hellhole-begging-ideas-save-city-DAVID-MARCUS.html
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/12/crime-police-defund-seattle/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMFRJqddlqc
https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Snyder/e/B01DUPOJL2

I can’t understand why anyone would still want to live in California.
Yes, there are lots of high paying jobs and the weather is very nice,
but crime is completely and utterly out of control.  As you will see
below, a new report that has just been issued is warning that violence
in the state has now reached “epidemic” levels.  The police are doing
what they can to try to contain the violence, but at this point they
are vastly outnumbered by the predators.  Sadly, this is the end
result of literally decades of cultural rot, and what is happening in
California is going to happen to the rest of the nation if we do not
take urgent action to turn things around.

Originally, I was going to write about something else today.  Tens of
thousands of rail and port workers were threatening to go on strike,
and this could definitely cause some substantial economic disruptions…

    America is bracing for chaos as tens of thousands of railway,
port, and hospital workers look set to strike over the winter –
plunging the country into further disruption.

    As many as 60,000 railway workers, 15,000 nurses, and 22,000 West
Coast port workers are plotting mass walkouts as they seek better
working conditions.

    Several US freight railroads said they were preparing for
widespread strike and service interruptions Friday, a deadline set by
two holdout labor groups in protracted talks with railroad carriers
about better benefits.

But even though these strikes could cause severe short-term problems,
they will eventually be resolved.

[And were resolved right before the strike was set to take place]

So in the greater scheme of things, they really aren’t a major concern.

On the other hand, our cultural decay is a massive ongoing crisis that
isn’t going to go away.

As I mentioned earlier, a brand new report that was just released is
warning that violence in the state of California has risen to
“epidemic” levels…

    The Golden State is losing its luster. A troubling new report
labels physical and sexual violence in pandemic-era California a
statewide “epidemic.” To put it simply, violence is on an alarming
rise.

    According to the new annual report from the California Study on
Violence Experiences across the Lifespan (CalVEX), violence statistics
have seen a significant increase since COVID-19 emerged. The report,
conducted by scientists at the University of California San Diego
School of Medicine, reports more than one in six Californians (18%)
experienced either physical or sexual violence in just the past year.

If you live in one of the biggest cities in California, this isn’t news to you.

Once upon a time, the state was a place of great beauty and great
tranquility, but now it has been transformed into a crime-infested
hellhole.

I was particularly alarmed by the numbers on sexual violence in this new report…

    While more than 1.5 million adults in California admit to
committing acts of sexual violence in the past year, men were more
than two times as likely as women to report that they perpetrated
sexual violence and intimate partner violence.

    Women also showed greater mental health impacts and life
disruptions due to violent experiences, with 82 percent of women
reporting anxiety or depression as a result of physically aggressive,
coercive or forced sexual behavior.

Of course much of this violence is being fueled by illegal mind-altering drugs.

Some of these drugs are so immensely powerful that they literally put
people into catatonic states for an extended period of time…

    Can anyone explain to me why Democrat voters enjoy seeing this so
much they just keep voting for more? pic.twitter.com/hq4unJn0S8
    — 🗽🐷Piglosi's Peaks🗻🐘 (@StokingFreedom) September 13, 2022

I will never understand why people would willingly do that to themselves.

Today, we are facing the biggest drug crisis that we have ever seen in
American history, and addicts will often do whatever it takes to get
another fix.

Sadly, this is one of the factors that is contributing to skyrocketing
rates of shoplifting all over the nation…

    We are all painfully aware of the huge rise in shoplifting and
even violent robberies of stores. We watch the videos of thugs
brazenly raiding stores, and read about the organized crime rings that
have sprung up to profit from the trend. Shoplifting has become a big,
if criminal business. Chances are that if you use eBay to purchase a
wide range of products at reduced prices you have unwittingly
purchased stolen goods. No good way for eBay to stop the practice.

One homeless man that originally came from Alabama recently admitted
that he regularly shoplifts in order to fund his heroin use…

    People say high rent causes homelessness but Ben, who has been
homeless in San Francisco for 7 years, says the “vast majority” are
homeless due to addiction. Just 6-7% are from SF. Ben says he "boosts"
(shoplifts) and breaks into cars to pay for his $60/day heroin habit.
pic.twitter.com/uewKTtBuOS
    — Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) February 6, 2022

There have been homeless addicts in the streets of San Francisco for
years, but now we have reached a point where they are seemingly
everywhere.

The following is what one reporter witnessed during a recent journey
through the city…

    I saw complete hopelessness in the eyes of haunted souls dragging
themselves down the street looking for their next fix.

    I saw men and women of all ages hunched over on the sidewalks with
open wounds all over their bodies.

    I saw the filthy tent cities stinking with human excrement and
strewn with needles and pipes.

    I saw children staring in horror at people dying right in front of them.

At one time, such activity was limited to the bad portions of the city.

But now addicts that have been drugged out of their minds are pulling
down their pants and crapping in the streets right in front of some of
the most expensive real estate in San Francisco.

This has made the wealthy people really angry, and Mayor Breed says
that she is finally going to “get serious” about this crisis.

Of course “getting serious” doesn’t mean arresting a bunch of people
and throwing them into prison.

That just wouldn’t be very “progressive”.

Instead, authorities in San Francisco are getting ready to launch a
“soft-touch” program that will seek to “interrupt” drug trafficking…

    City supervisors released a resolution for a vague ‘soft-touch’
initiative called ‘San Francisco Recovers.’

    And here’s the catch, and it’s a doozy: the plan is being touted
as, ‘a way that nobody’s going to jail but we’re doing an effective
job of interrupting the drug market and drug scenes.’

    Is this a sick joke?

Yes, it certainly sounds like a sick joke to me.

Good luck with all that.

If major cities such as San Francisco actually want to have a chance
of turning things around, they need to send the police out to round up
all the drug dealers.

Unfortunately, police forces in many of our biggest cities are rapidly
getting smaller.

In fact, a whopping 122 officers have left the Seattle Police
Department in 2022 alone…

    The liberal city of Seattle is losing police officers amid a major
spike in crime, 770 KTTH reported.

    “We’re screwed,” former King County Sheriff John Urqhart said,
according to 770 KTTH.

    In total, 122 officers have left the Seattle Police Department in
2022, including six that left in August, 770 KTTH reported, citing a
police source. Since the city council voted to defund the police
department in 2020, nearly 500 police officers have left the force.

I wouldn’t want to be a police officer in a major west coast city at
this point either.

They are underpaid, the politicians treat them with tremendous
disdain, and they are often hindered by absolutely ridiculous
regulations which keep them from doing their jobs effectively.

We like to think that we are so “advanced”, but the truth is that if
you compare video footage from major cities on the west coast from
decades ago to video footage from today there is absolutely no
comparison.

Our society is melting down right in front of our eyes, and if we stay
on the path that we are currently on there is no future for our
country.

But the politicians insist that people like me have it all wrong.

They continue to tell us that things are better than ever and that a
glorious future for our nation is dead ahead.

You can believe that if you want, but the truth of what is really
happening to our society is on display for the whole world to see.

America is dying, and we are quickly running out of time to turn things around.