Utah Clothing Company Cotopaxi Closing San Francisco Store, CEO Says City ‘Overrun With Drugs, Criminals’

A homeless person sleeps on a bench in front of closed retail stores in San Francisco on April 16, 2021. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Utah-based outdoor apparel brand Cotopaxi is shutting down its store in San Francisco due to worries about crime plaguing the city, CEO Davis Smith said on Tuesday.

“It’s sad, but San Francisco appears to have descended into a city of chaos. Many streets and parks are overrun with drugs, criminals, and homelessness, and local leadership and law enforcement enable it through inaction,” Smith wrote in a post on LinkedIn.