Walmart has very strong security and close relationships with local law enforcement. These thefts target stores with high value items, limited security measures and in a municipality with limited appetite for criminal sanctions of this behavior. Boiling it down to a black/white thing is racist and stupid. Go spend some time in rural WVa/Ohio/Kentucky or visit an Indian reservation. You will get a very strong understanding that poverty is poverty, regardless of race. But you do you. Keep being dumb and racist. I’m sure you’ll go far. |
So your point is that white people aren’t looting stores because it’s harder to do so? Basically white people would be looting local Walmarts if they didn’t have as good of security and relationships with local enforcement ? Instead I would say that it’s simply not socially or culturally acceptable in these rural areas to loot a Walmart. |
Racism and stupidity are strongly correlated. I recommend seeing a doctor to get that looked at. |
I live in a rural area with a Walmart as the main store. The locals here would never dream of committing the crimes we are seeing in urban areas. I am sure there is some shoplifting as you find everywhere. But, the smash and grabs and mob thefts? No way. First of all, they know if they get caught they will be harshly prosecuted. None of the "restorative justice" here. They will go to jail and will be punished. Secondly, they will bring shame to their families. In rural areas, people actually know each other. A crime like this would be the talk of the town for weeks. And lastly, they have friends and families that actually work at these establishments. They would be arrested in no time. It just doesn't happen. |
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| I think the important thing to remember is that time will grind on and these little unimportant robberies will be forgotten and there will be others and there will be more carjackings and so forth, but what matters is that we don’t break up families and make people feel bad. Their just things, right? I mean Charles Allen is so prescient. We need to explore the root causes of poverty for a few decades, hire a few violence interruptors at a cost of $9M even if they aren’t proven to work, and we need to shut anyone down or call them a racist if they ask for more policing and stronger sentences for violent crime. It’s about feelings and it’s about making everyone feel safe. I hope we get a million more Karl Racines and Chessa whatever his name is from San Francisco. We can’t stop until every part of the country looks like downtown Baltimore or Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia. Only then will we all be where we should be. Even complaining about crime makes you a gentrifying piece of sht. So just stop. Forget about crime and just read the news and see the crime go up and just accept it. |
Yes. We should simply write MPD a blank check so they can hire more officers to sit in their cruisers and play on their phones while sitting in bus lanes and in front of bus stops. I don't even believe MPD has made arrests in the case of the doctor who was mowed down by someone who stole his car at 18 and Florida NW. As high profile a case as it gets. |
The doctor was a MD resident so not anyones neighbor or constituent and the mayor said the murders didn’t mean it. So case closed. |
wow. This grandma dismembered in NO with carjacking. There needs to be a nationwide response to this. I'm thinking teen criminals should be locked up and not released until 21 AND they meet conditions--counseling, completion of full GED or alternative diploma, behavior on the inside, gainful employment plan or education plan or job training plan and close supervision upon release. You don't just sail out at 21. A board and judge determine if society can tolerate you as a productive citizen ready to make amends. If they can't meet that they stay in until they do. |
| Another Uber driver shot by his customers who also took his car in DC. |
That is so horrible. Did he survive? |
That is so horrible. Did he survive? |
It is no longer about the victims and keeping society safe. Tax paying families will move out. |
| A Wilson student was arrested Friday afternoon at the end of the day for car-jacking. (or at least that is what all the students are saying) |
That would be very sad, if true. However, given the rampant thievery from all the shops near Wilson (filling backpacks at whole foods, filling up personal containers unpaid with soda at McD) Wilson continues to be a behavioral handful. Do the parent community just not care? |