“Progressive Paradise”

In-N-Out Burger’s only location in Oakland is closing after the cherished fast-food joint decided it could no longer risk the safety of fed-up workers and patrons in the city plagued by recent crime.

The location will shut its doors in March — despite the burger spot turning a profit — because of the constant crime in the community, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a sudden announcement over the weekend.

In-n-Out Burger dumps Democrat infested Oakland.

“Our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft and armed robberies,” the company said.

Thank you, Gavin Newsom, for degrading a once lovely California city yet again. pic.twitter.com/oIVfkUz4Co

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 22, 2024

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to a question on an uptick in most violent crime categories in the city in 2023 by stating that homicides and shootings have fallen and money “for restoration and reparations” will help address the “cycle of violence” in the city.

Knife crime in London is rising at its fastest rate in five years with more than 40 incidents reported to the police every day, the Telegraph can disclose.

Warfare between rival drug gangs combined with spiralling street robbery rates are contributing to the surge in violent offences.

Gun crime in the capital is also on the increase with shootings up more than six per cent on the same period in 2022.

Is sanity finally returning to America’s blue cities? The places that incubated inept policies such as “defund the police” and “sanctuary cities”, but welcomed open-air drug use, are beginning to have second thoughts. In Seattle, Portland and San Francisco (which featured in a recent UnHerd special), lawmakers are looking at ways to curb public drug use — a move that has been symptomatic of a wider pushback against progressive policies.

Sickening videos have been released of a series of hit-and-run incidents in which a deranged driver deliberately runs over pedestrians on the streets of Seattle, while the occupants of the car can be heard laughing in the background.

Footage has been released by the Seattle Police Department that shows two separate incidents occurring within a few blocks of one another.

Video shot by surveillance cameras matches that shot from within the vehicle itself, filmed on a cellphone and later posted to social media.

They call it ‘The Poopie Dance’ and San Franciscans are having to learn it – and quickly.

It involves constantly looking straight ahead to find a clean line between where you are on the street and where you want to go.

Sadly, it’s the reality in parts of the Bay City as the growing homeless population have taken to using the famed streets of San Francisco as one giant open-air toilet.

Water Tower Place, an eight-story, 758,000 sq. ft. high-end shopping mall in downtown Chicago, is in the news.

Once one of the biggest and most exciting malls in the Midwest, it quietly leaked that the owners are interested in renting out the top five of its eight floors “for purposes other than retail.”

Not just wealthy shoppers, but even browsing tourists, too, it seems, are staying away in droves.

The terrifying reality of life on San Francisco’s drug-ravaged streets has been laid bare by one life-long resident who filmed her walk to work through scenes that have made the city an international symbol for squalor and despair.

Tiktoker ‘Freqmeek’ captured the pre-dawn horror as she gingerly picked her way through dozens of desperate addicts in the city’s Tenderloin district.

Some are hunched against the cold while others are too intoxicated to care as cars and buses try to steer a path through unconscious addicts sprawled across the road for hundreds of yards.

Major cities in the country continue to see their quality of life decrease as crime increases. It is not only violent crime that is causing problems, either.

As of mid-September, Oakland, California, had recorded 11,417 motor vehicle thefts or nearly 41 car thefts a day. In just the week of Oct. 2 – 8, 125 cars were stolen, according to the Oakland Police Department crime data. This does not include the 549 carjackings for the year, which falls under robberies.

Overall, car thefts are up 50 percent over 2022, and carjackings are up 21 percent.

After the Maine massacre, we are hearing the familiar response to a mass shooting by a mentally ill man, which is to deprive everyone of their civil rights. The reality is that if you have violent and dangerous people on the loose, they will get their hands on guns or other weapons, regardless of whatever laws there are. Gun control doesn’t stop killers, it stops people from protecting themselves. If you want to stop mentally unstable mass shooters, institutionalize them.

A woke Lower East Side bookstore is bringing fear and loathing to the neighborhood by luring hordes of drug addicts to their storefront with clothes, hygiene products, food and drinks — and even a bathroom where they can shoot up, neighbors told The Post.

A convicted pedophile has been arrested after setting up a homeless camp outside of a San Francisco school with a sign offering ‘free fentanyl 4 new users’.

Adam Moore, 46, set up an encampment across from Stella Maris Academy in the embattled California city over two years ago.

Moore had been stationed outside the school with signs offering free drugs, with one reading: ‘Free fentanyl 4 new users’ and another saying ‘Meth for stolen items’.