Looks like Target is learning the very hard way that going woke does indeed lead to going broke.
In more than one context.
Last year, Target made headlines for promoting “tuck friendly” swimwear for transgenders … along with promoting LGBTQ ideology in general to highly impressionable children.
Shortly after Target’s overt marketing of alternative sexualities to children, the company incurred $10B in losses in the stock market.
Now, Target is “going broke” outside the stock market, thanks to the incredibly lenient tenets of California’s Proposition 47.
Passed in 2014, Proposition 47 is notorious for determining that thefts of merchandise valued under $950 comprise mere misdemeanors, rather than felonies.
Combined with “zero bail” programs and other pro-crime policies, it is not at all surprising that California has become a subsequent hot spot for crime.
And, as Target would soon learn, its blanket support of BLM and other militant causes would achieve exactly nothing in terms of protecting the retailer – not to mention its employees – from violent criminals.
Hilariously, Target is now being threatened by the government for daring to report crime.
Apparently, Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood is incensed that Target has dared to phone the police to report crime.
In fact, Wood is so bothered that she is now aiming to “punish” the retailer for daring to call out the criminals who routinely rob from its shelves, with impunity.
“[Wood] has threatened to punish a Target store for repeatedly reporting thefts at the store in the crime-ridden state. Sacramento City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood’s office said the retail store located at 2505 Riverside Blvd. in Land Park will be fined and slapped with a public nuisance charge if it continues to call police when there is a theft at the store …
A person familiar with the incident, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal, told The Sacramento Bee that city officials warned that an administrative fine would also be charged,” the Daily Mail reported.
Well, that’s nice. Someone should inform California politicians that punishing businesses with variously gratuitous “fines” and “fees” will never achieve sufficient revenue for the onslaught of illegals consuming American resources.
Moreover, Target is hardly in the wrong for making several calls to the police … considering that thefts have increased more than fourfold since 2021.
In 2023, there were 375 calls related to theft, robbery and shoplifting in 2023.
These calls represent an increase from about 175 calls in 2022 and 87 calls in 2021, and they spanned three different Target locations in Sacramento.
Despite the enormous rise in crime, Wood is apparently more fixated on punishing businesses that report crime, rather than the criminals themselves.
Alexander Gammelgard, who serves as president of the California Police Chiefs Association, was a bit taken aback by Wood’s approach, to put it mildly.
“I … (was) also surprised that anyone would ever attempt to make a nuisance case out of somebody calling to report a legitimate crime,” Gammelgard asserted.
Well, in the upside-down world of la la land, it is to be expected that “legitimate” businesses are punished … while illegitimate criminals roam free.
Author: Jane Jones
