An Afghan immigrant describes crime ridden San Francisco as worse than Afghanistan

A San Francisco store, Cigarettes R Cheaper, suffered a robbery. One of the owners for the store is someone who immigrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s. He contrasted similar actions in Afghanistan with those of these robbers/thieves. He argued that committing theft would result in your hands getting cut off in Afghanistan. In San Francisco, the thieves act with impunity as they know that they could get away with the theft.

From Fox News:

A San Francisco store owner who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan says he is at his wits end with crime in the city after a gang of thieves stole over $100,000 in merchandise from his tobacco shop.

“The politicians need to get a grip on this because It’s worse than Afghanistan or Iraq,” Zaid, co-owner of Cigarettes R Cheaper in San Francisco’s Richmond District, told Fox News Digital. He was referring to crime in the city following a robbery Tuesday night, when a half dozen thieves smashed his windows and made off with about $80,000 in merchandise and $20,000 in cash.

“At least in Afghanistan the Taliban will cut your hand off and people are afraid to commit such a crime,” Zaid said, adding that he sees people stealing from nearby stores every day.

“They know the police won’t do anything,” Zaid explained, adding that the thieves were in his store for 18 to 20 minutes and had plenty of time to “ransack” the place. Zaid added that police have told him that they are short-handed.

The San Francisco Police Department, which is facing a crisis-level staffing shortage, confirmed to Fox News Digital that officers arrived on the scene at 2:44 a.m. on Wednesday and “observed the window to the business shattered and items from the business strewn about the scene.”

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Category: Crime