And Walgreens is shutting down their most robbed locations in the city.  I am sure they are not the only retailers being attacked and probably many small operators simply have shut down and moved to better locations or retired altogether.

Tell how this city is not heading to a total collapse.

Just saw this in Facebook and sounds like a good idea.

Springfield Police Department.

Advice From the Springfield Police Department …

If your are taking a young child to a big event, Six Flags, theme park, Fenway Park or any other busy location …
Write your phone number on their wrist and cover it with liquid band aid in case you get separated.
Also, take a photo of them using your cell phone the morning of the event so you have their clothing, hair style and up to date photo. Just in case they get lost.
Stay safe this summer!
The men & women of the SPD are working hard protecting & serving …
#BePrepared #TipofTheDay

Sgt. John Delaney
Springfield Police Department
jdelaney@springfieldpolice.net

I was in the kitchen taking a break from playing Tetris in the container when i saw this one. She stared at me and had that thing under the chin going as if giving me an attitude.

So, small, green and with an attitude? Iguana Thunberg was too long so it gets baptized as Greta.

BREAKING: Judge rules to unseal dozens of documents about Ghislaine Maxwell's personal affairs, including Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with the Clintons including 'funding received from the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation'https://t.co/rSzySxQfGJ

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 1, 2021

And my condolences to the judge’s family on account of his suicide.

San Jose to tax gun owners, will confiscate firearms for noncompliance

Gun owners in San Jose, California, will soon face a yearly tax and be required to carry additional insurance after their city council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to impose the new measures.

The forthcoming fee for gun ownership in the city has not yet been determined, but officials said that anyone found to be in noncompliance will have their weapons confiscated.

The city council’s aim is to try to recoup the cost of responding to gun incidents such as shootings and deaths. According to the Pacific Council on Research and Evaluation, which studied the issue and sent a representative to testify before the panel, gun-related incidents cost the city roughly $63 million every year in the way of paying for police officers, medics and other expenses, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The people who will pay the tax and buy the insurance to remain legal are not the people doing the shootings.

And the people doing the shooting are not going to get licenses and buy insurance.

This will probably survive legal challenge in California.

This has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with tormenting gun owners.

Big boom in LA.

WATCH: Sky9 was overhead when police attempted to detonate a stash of illegal fireworks that ended in an explosion in the 700 block of East 27th Street in South L.A. https://t.co/KpWiAEoyqv pic.twitter.com/UbIXLDoZjh

— KCAL News (@kcalnews) July 1, 2021

17 Injured After Planned Detonation Of Seized Illegal Fireworks Ends In Explosion

Federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Thursday began surveying the damage and reconstructing what led to a Wednesday evening explosion in South Los Angeles that injured 17 people.

“I can’t speak for the entire nation, but I’ve never seen that before,” Ginger Colbrun, an ATF special agent, said. “And I’ve been working for ATF for over a decade.”

The explosion of a Los Angeles Police Department truck, caused after a planned police detonation of seized illegal fireworks, happened at about 7:40 p.m. at East 27th and San Pedro streets.

The explosion occurred after the LAPD had seized over 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks from a nearby home. A 27-year-old man was also arrested.

Ten pounds of the illegal fireworks were placed in a specialized armored truck designed for controlled detonations

Moore alleged that the officers followed the necessary protocols, but “something happened in that containment vehicle that should not have happened, and we don’t know why, but we intend to find out why.” The truck is capable of handling up to 15 pounds of IEDs. There were 10 pounds at the time of the explosion.

The truck was rated at 15 lbs of explosives but 10 lbs blew it up, injured 17 people. and broke windows for blocks.

That seems like a major failure.

They didn’t say 15 lbs of what but the standard is lbs of TNT.

This is something that will need to be investigated.

A big metal container that was supposed to contain a quantity of explosives but failed catastrophically at less than that quantity.

This seem like a job for a forensic explosive metallurgist.

I just so happen to know one.