When local officials have decided to do away with policies that prosecute crime in the name of equity, you end up with the zombie apocalypse known as San Francisco.

A hardware store has suffered so badly from rampant shoplifting that it now requires customers to shop with an employee escort.

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According to Fox Business:

A store in San Francisco is reportedly requiring customers to shop with an employee escort in a bid to stop theft.
"It’s pretty bad," Sam Black, manager of Fredericksen Hardware & Paint in San Francisco told KRON4. "I mean, the dollar amounts are pretty significant, and with the tools and now we’re getting snatch-and-grabs when they take whole displays, so it’s getting kind of dangerous for the employees and the customers."

"We just want to make it uncomfortable for the thieves so they go somewhere else," Black said.

KRON4 revealed a sign that the store posted for customers that explained the new employee escort policy.

"Due to the rampant shoplifting, Fredericksen has introduced a one-on-one shopping experience: wait here and a clerk will be right with you to help you with all your shopping needs," the sign tells guests.

Honestly, that is quite sad that this is what the owner has to resort to. Officials have made it clear that equity takes precedence over safety and security for law-abiding citizens. And because of that asinine pursuit, it’s the people actually contributing to society who suffer the most.

Only progressives can take one of the richest places in the world and turn it into “The Walking Dead.”

This is why the middle class is being destroyed in San Francisco. You either have to be extremely rich to live there or extremely poor. There is no middle ground.

You don’t even need a fraction of a brain to know that decriminalizing shoplifting will lead to rampant theft. But it’s either that local officials don’t have a brain, or they are truly that evil and don’t care. The answer is up to you to decide.

San Francisco is no longer a civilized society. Even third-world countries could not even begin to imagine some of the things residents have to deal with. And if you ever need a perfect example of how to ruin one of the best cities in the world, take a look at the City by the Bay.

It's honestly scary to think about what San Fransico will be like in 10 years. But unfortunately, it has, arguably reached the point of no return.

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