Just can't do business there? Doesn't sound like a good business environment!
I guess what I think is really going on is that the Western city governments simply cannot stop all this. They no longer have sovereignty. No monopoly on violence, as the saying goes. It's like the mobs of rioters, and why the police really can't control them: there are just too many and not enough police at best.
And no use saying, "Shoot 'em!" because that may not work either. Often in history that has been tried and frequently the crowd, being many times larger than the police or army force, wins! Or if they are driven back in panic from the shooting, the next few days or weeks result in a serious revolution and the mob wins that way. I can think of three historical examples of that without pausing to consider it. The St. Petersburg massacre in Russia, the 1790 Field of Mars riot in Paris, and the 1936 armed riot in Paris that led directly to the collapse of the French government and the Fall of France in 1940.
So I think these city governments would LIKE to be able to control the organized shoplifting, the rioting and looting and burning, but there are just too many people doing it and they aren't allowed even to try shooting back ---- the government is disarmed. They are Dems and they are locked into supporting the homeless, for example, who are taking over California. I read last month that California has 80% of the nation's homeless now --- many camping in San Francisco on the streets! There's too many; it's like the illegal aliens: they just can't stop them.
If they try, all the other Woke Dems yell and complain that they shouldn't use horses to drive back the mobs of Haitians trying to break in, for instance. To stop this, something huge would have to change, politically.
Trump comes to mind. . . . . .