San Francisco's high rent shopping center, The Westfield Mall, with tenants such as Bloomingdale's, Hugo Boss, Nordstrom's, Rolex and Tiffany's is backed up against SF's Tenderloin district, a seedy stretch of SF where valuable land meets the loony left.
If free market forces were allowed to operate, the area would develop into a spectacular venue of shops, office space, hotels and apartments. Instead, it is maintained for the loony left as sort of a petting zoo for the mentally insane. The left doesn't allow much development.
SF Weekly reports o what this means for the Westfield, as the insane wander from the Tenderloin and into the mall:
Anecdotal observations among San Francisco police personnel attribute around a quarter of the crime reports generated within the busy Southern Police District to incidents occurring in or near Westfield Mall. Hard data obtained from the city's Department of Emergency Management bolsters that claim. Between 2011 and 2013, 335,707 calls for assistance were made within the district. Of those, 77,655 — 23 percent — came from the Westfield or within a block of it
Clearly, being mall cops is a major preoccupation of San Francisco's real cops — and a daily logistical grind for Southern District Capt. Mike Redmond. There are times, he says, when a pair of officers in a squad car will be assigned "just to handle those calls for service" at the Westfield.
Wild West? Come on, Wenzy; there's no such thing as the WW.
ReplyDelete70 calls per day between 2011-2013? That's crazy!
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ReplyDeleteI guess you could say that the Westfield Mall is where Sodom meets Gamorrah.
ReplyDeleteI like how the artist depicted 'The Humongous' from the movie The Road Warrior as the central figure...
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