Shoplifter Fills SUITCASE Up With Stolen Goods At San Francisco CVS

A brazen thief could be seen walking down the aisles of CVS in San Francisco filling his pockets and a rollaway suitcase, making off with whatever he wanted before walking out of the store unopposed - but not before grabbing a soda. 
The sickening footage was caught on camera by a fellow shopper earlier this week and posted to .
It is the latest in a string of shocking shoplifting outrages to hit the famously liberal Bay Area.
The thief who was wearing a madison sports group jersey, baseball cap and face covering could be seen filling his jacket pockets and then attempting to stuff his suitcase with anything he could lay his hands on. 
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A thief in San Francisco could be seen filling his pockets and rollaboard suitcase
Staff asked him gently to leave but did not get in his way or apprehend the man
Staff could be heard telling him to leave in the gentlest of ways. 
The thief heeded them little attention as he continued to pull items off shelves - including parts of the fixtures themselves. 
At one point, he appeared to pull off an entire rack of batteries and attempt to stuff it into his case. 
He also stashed a load of inactivated gift cards into his pockets, despite them having no cash value whatsoever. 
On his way out, the thief called out to an accomplice that he was leaving the store. 
Just prior to walking through the exit, he opened a fridge to grab a soda. 
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The man decided to grab as many packs of batteries as he could before heading out 
Everything from gift cards to batteries was stashed into his suitcase
The frustration was felt by viewers of the video online.
'Why doesn't CVS just call the cops, say there's a nonviolent robbery in progress, and the cops can just wait outside and arrest when they're done?' asked one user.
'In SF there's zero risk of going to jail or even being put on probation. The DA can not prosecute any thefts under $950, and even if it goes above that the DA in SF doesn't care,' explained another. 
'This will continue as long as no one does anything about it.

Absolutely disgusting,' added one viewer. 
'Most calm robbery I've ever seen!' exclaimed another. 
A bottle of soda was the final item to catch the man's eye.

Stealing is thirsty work! 
The thief was left to continue his day as he stroller out onto the streets of San Francisco
Crime in San Francisco has been climbing steadily, with larceny theft only slightly lower than homicides 
The scene is similar to those seen across the country from New York to Los Angeles and beyond, with thieves undeterred as they take whatever they like from the shelves. 
But San Francisco and its Bay Area neighbors have been hit hard by a wave of property crimes and smash-and-grab robberies since the start of the pandemic. 
Lax bail reform laws in often-liberal cities mean there is virtually no penalty for the thieves who carry out the crimes.
Without any threat of a jail sentence, the crooks are released back out onto the streets and able to reoffend - often on the same day of their original arrest. 
Eighty looters ransacked a luxury Nordstrom store in California's Bay Area in November in a raid that lasted less than a minute
Earlier in the year, the West Coast was the scene of a spate of high-end luxury robberies with thieves targeting boutiques where designer goods were sold. 
It even involved getaway drivers waiting outside department stores while their accomplices pulled what they could from the shelves inside. 
The pharmacy robberies are a much lower-end version of the heists but ultimately it is the consumer that ends up paying with stores forced to increase their prices due to inventory constantly being stolen and shoplifted from their own stores. 
The video is also extremely similar to those which have been shot in the past and see thieves lining their pockets with whatever they desire with no resistance from either store staff or fellow shoppers whatsoever.
According to the latest available crime data, grand larceny rates in California's liberal bastion were up 29 per cent in early April, compared with the same period last year.
Liberal San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, whose soft-on-crime policies have been blamed for San Francisco's soaring crime rates, is facing a recall vote in June 
Drug store chains like Walgreens and CVS have become attractive and easy targets for shoplifters, leading to numerous store closures in the Bay Area.

In the area's largest city, San Francisco, low-level offenses, such as retail thefts, have been effectively de-criminalized under the leadership of progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
Boudin, who in a recent interview with the New York Times argued that tough-on-crime policies do not work and blamed the police for the San Francisco's soaring crime rates, is facing a recall vote on June 7. 
Walgreens said last year that retail theft in San Francisco was five times the chain average and security costs were 46 times the chain average, reported
According to the latest available crime data, grand larceny rates in California's liberal bastion were up 29 per cent in early April, compared with the same period last year. 
California Gov Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has vowed to crack down on gangs of retail thieves, despite a controversial 2014 law - Proposition 47 - that barred prosecutors from charging suspected shoplifters accused of stealing less than $950 worth of merchandise with felonies. 
Walgreens has already closed at 17 of its 70 San Francisco stores because of constant shoplifting.

One of the stores closing, pictured above, was subject of a viral video showing a man filling a garbage bag full of goods as security guards watched and let him go