That endless loop magnifies an actual issue to the point of ridiculousness.
Now it's a plague of lawlessness, BLM and Antifa agents. COMMUNISTAS! Run like hair is afire! We need more POLICE to counter this WAVE of illegal and CRIMINAL criminality!
I will add to the anecdotes. I know of a mall in my bright red state (funny how that used to mean тАШcommieтАЩ) not too far from us where soon after it opened тАЬgroup theftsтАЭ were occurring 2-3 times a week by тАШout of the areaтАЩ folks. It was situated near the interstate outside a large city on the edge of a small city with a 5 man police force.
The city expanded its police force by 3 officers, started using organized criminal activity charges instead of shoplifting because the thieves didnтАЩt mind forfeiting their bond or leaving vehicles behindтАж The courts were getting clogged & costs started to stack up.
Pressure mounted on the mall so it increased its security and improved staff training.
Now the тАШgroup theftsтАЩ are not an issue. A new mall brings new revenue and some ancillary growth adds to it. The additional officers are visible and affordable. Life returned to тАЬnormalтАЭ - except we all know these turkeys moved on to easier pickins.
IтАЩm betting it is still used to justify low wages in those stores like others where it is a choice not to implement measures that would reduce internal theft and discourage тАШgroup theft.тАЩ
I find in your anecdote a proper, balanced police response. But I live in an over-militarized police type area. Its cooled down a whole lot since George Flloyd's death though and the new mayor and police chief seem committed to doing the job of urban policing properly.
Stand by. If it goes "south" if you will, Judd, Tesnim and crew will be writing about it.
I feel ya. I live in the Louisville area. The FOP is still resisting certain measures that were to be implemented. Finally have another police chief - not an interim.
The city just paid $20M to 2 guys convicted and then imprisoned for MANY years who were exonerated. The detective in the case was charged for lying in another case - got off with less than a slap on the wrist & is a major sore point.
God I absolutely LOATHE the FOP and find it amusing that their acronym spells fop. Sounds about right to me.
Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay, dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion. Wikipedia
ЁЯШВ I remember it but havenтАЩt hard the term in eons. To connect some dots, the FOP here (and IтАЩm sure elsewhere) is a big proponent of scare tactics to keep their power. Sometimes more blatantly than others threatening that if they donтАЩt get what the want criminals will overrun communities ... i.e. weтАЩll stop doing our jobs etc. That is relevant to the retail scare thing. Here is another old case that made the news last month - retail theft related:
Yup. Old Pat Catanzara is the resident fop round these heah pahts. He's a trmp-humping ninny for sure! And does he have a lock on that "conservative playbook?" Oh yes he does.
"The cops won't be able to do their jobs cause you won't let them cause you won't let us trample citizen's rights in the way we need to, see?" They'll all be whining and butt-hurt, sucking their thumbs and issuing all manner of threats if they don't GET THEIR WAY!!!
And is that his go-to every damn time? Yes'm. It surely looks to be that way don't it? Yes'm, it surely does.
If I could give him and all of his many willing minions, a well placed kick for every inappropriate raft of shite spilled from his lying lips, well,... let's just say that there wouldn't be much left of him.
Why bother with facts and statistics, when Fox, etc., can play videos in an endless loop?
That endless loop magnifies an actual issue to the point of ridiculousness.
Now it's a plague of lawlessness, BLM and Antifa agents. COMMUNISTAS! Run like hair is afire! We need more POLICE to counter this WAVE of illegal and CRIMINAL criminality!
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I will add to the anecdotes. I know of a mall in my bright red state (funny how that used to mean тАШcommieтАЩ) not too far from us where soon after it opened тАЬgroup theftsтАЭ were occurring 2-3 times a week by тАШout of the areaтАЩ folks. It was situated near the interstate outside a large city on the edge of a small city with a 5 man police force.
The city expanded its police force by 3 officers, started using organized criminal activity charges instead of shoplifting because the thieves didnтАЩt mind forfeiting their bond or leaving vehicles behindтАж The courts were getting clogged & costs started to stack up.
Pressure mounted on the mall so it increased its security and improved staff training.
Now the тАШgroup theftsтАЩ are not an issue. A new mall brings new revenue and some ancillary growth adds to it. The additional officers are visible and affordable. Life returned to тАЬnormalтАЭ - except we all know these turkeys moved on to easier pickins.
IтАЩm betting it is still used to justify low wages in those stores like others where it is a choice not to implement measures that would reduce internal theft and discourage тАШgroup theft.тАЩ
I find in your anecdote a proper, balanced police response. But I live in an over-militarized police type area. Its cooled down a whole lot since George Flloyd's death though and the new mayor and police chief seem committed to doing the job of urban policing properly.
Stand by. If it goes "south" if you will, Judd, Tesnim and crew will be writing about it.
I feel ya. I live in the Louisville area. The FOP is still resisting certain measures that were to be implemented. Finally have another police chief - not an interim.
The city just paid $20M to 2 guys convicted and then imprisoned for MANY years who were exonerated. The detective in the case was charged for lying in another case - got off with less than a slap on the wrist & is a major sore point.
As they say, guys like him are the reason we canтАЩt have nice things. The city was declared uninsurable due to the price tags of so many preventable miscarriages of justice. https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/louisville-metro-agrees-to-pay-20-5-million-to-men-wrongfully-convicted-in-1992-satanic/article_f4ba2d10-4e4d-11ee-b634-270b9ce84917.html
God I absolutely LOATHE the FOP and find it amusing that their acronym spells fop. Sounds about right to me.
Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay, dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion. Wikipedia
ЁЯШВ I remember it but havenтАЩt hard the term in eons. To connect some dots, the FOP here (and IтАЩm sure elsewhere) is a big proponent of scare tactics to keep their power. Sometimes more blatantly than others threatening that if they donтАЩt get what the want criminals will overrun communities ... i.e. weтАЩll stop doing our jobs etc. That is relevant to the retail scare thing. Here is another old case that made the news last month - retail theft related:
https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/woman-sues-mcdonalds-for-wrongful-termination-after-lmpd-officer-falsely-testified-she-stole-from-store/article_4506d884-429d-11ee-853a-ff7cd5aa6801.html
Yup. Old Pat Catanzara is the resident fop round these heah pahts. He's a trmp-humping ninny for sure! And does he have a lock on that "conservative playbook?" Oh yes he does.
"The cops won't be able to do their jobs cause you won't let them cause you won't let us trample citizen's rights in the way we need to, see?" They'll all be whining and butt-hurt, sucking their thumbs and issuing all manner of threats if they don't GET THEIR WAY!!!
And is that his go-to every damn time? Yes'm. It surely looks to be that way don't it? Yes'm, it surely does.
If I could give him and all of his many willing minions, a well placed kick for every inappropriate raft of shite spilled from his lying lips, well,... let's just say that there wouldn't be much left of him.