The founder and CEO of the active wear brand confirmed Tuesday that they are closing their San Francisco store because of the constant break-ins.
Davis Smith wrote that the store in San Francisco is closing because of the lack of safety for the team. Several times a week, our store is hit by theft rings. They walked out of the store with a lot of product.
He said the outdoor-clothing company opened a retail shop a year ago in acharming shopping district just blocks away from the Full House home. Thousands of dollars of merchandise were stolen within a week of the store opening. The store was forced to replace the window with plywood after violent thieves broke it four times after the window was replaced.
Smith said that the heists were getting tactful. The criminals would send a woman to the door pretending to be a shopper after the store locked the front door. The store would be attacked once the door was open.
The team is scared. They feel like they're in danger. Security guards can't stop theft rings because they know they won't be stopped. He said it was impossible for a retail store to operate when cities refuse to act.
Smith accused the city of reducing police presence in the neighborhood due to demands from defund-the- police advocates. While visiting San Francisco, he and his wife have experienced terrifying incidents that have deteriorated into a crime-ridden wasteland. Smith said crooks stole everything out of his trunk after breaking into his car. He said that when he called the police, they told him that it was his fault for parking in the street.
There are pictures of the streets of San Francisco.
He said that the local government was also involved in the crime surge. The prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles have come under fire for their law enforcement policies. At the height of the "defund the police" rhetoric in the wake of George Floyd's murder, a former San Francisco district attorney sympathized with the movement. He said it started in critical conversations about the way in which our country has responded to some of our most complex challenges in how we have used police as a one-size, fits all, one-sided response.
Smith uploaded pictures of the damage to the shop's exterior. Smith grew up in Latin America and never felt unsafe there.
San Francisco seems to have become a city of chaos. He said that many streets and parks are overrun with drugs, criminals, and homeless and that local leadership and law enforcement allow it through inaction.
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