Smash and grab crimes in DMV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone replying with "something must be done!"

What exactly do you think can be done when a group of 20+ people show up, grab stuff, and are gone in minutes? There's literally nothing one or even two security guards can do against a group that size, and it would be logistically impossible to mount a police response on the scale required to arrest that many people at once in the mere minutes it takes them to disperse.

Short of having a 100 man SWAT team on standby 24/7, what exactly do you want the police to do? Insurance covers the cost, and police round up as many as they can after the fact using security footage. That's about the best we can hope for.

The plain fact is that social media has provided a tool for these criminals to organize on a far more effective level than police could possibly have the resources to prevent, no matter how much additional funding you could realistically give them.

If you actually want to stop this stuff from happening, the real solution is not to increase funding to the police, it's to raise wages, increase access to healthcare, force all employers to offer generous vacation time, and increase funding to public transit so that parents can spend time raising their kids and not spend 18 hours a day commuting to two jobs they can never take any time off from.

This made me lol. Really? You think the kids/teens/young adults doing this have two parents at home working diligently at two jobs? What fantasy land do you live in? More likely, it’s an absent parent/parents. Maybe the kid being raised by a grandparent. Possibly a parent also involved in some criminal activity.

Huh, and what could have stopped those parents from being engaged in crime? Perhaps a stable job that pays a living wage and provides adequate family and recreation time? Nah, couldn't be...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was an incident at my local Safeway a couple weeks ago. Someone tried run off with $300 in Tide.

How do you make money reselling laundry detergent?

More importantly, how do you carry $300 worth of Tide???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone replying with "something must be done!"

What exactly do you think can be done when a group of 20+ people show up, grab stuff, and are gone in minutes? There's literally nothing one or even two security guards can do against a group that size, and it would be logistically impossible to mount a police response on the scale required to arrest that many people at once in the mere minutes it takes them to disperse.

Short of having a 100 man SWAT team on standby 24/7, what exactly do you want the police to do? Insurance covers the cost, and police round up as many as they can after the fact using security footage. That's about the best we can hope for.

The plain fact is that social media has provided a tool for these criminals to organize on a far more effective level than police could possibly have the resources to prevent, no matter how much additional funding you could realistically give them.

If you actually want to stop this stuff from happening, the real solution is not to increase funding to the police, it's to raise wages, increase access to healthcare, force all employers to offer generous vacation time, and increase funding to public transit so that parents can spend time raising their kids and not spend 18 hours a day commuting to two jobs they can never take any time off from.

This made me lol. Really? You think the kids/teens/young adults doing this have two parents at home working diligently at two jobs? What fantasy land do you live in? More likely, it’s an absent parent/parents. Maybe the kid being raised by a grandparent. Possibly a parent also involved in some criminal activity.

Huh, and what could have stopped those parents from being engaged in crime? Perhaps a stable job that pays a living wage and provides adequate family and recreation time? Nah, couldn't be...

GTFOH with that nonsense. People have autonomy and make a choice to participate in these crimes. They aren't victims of circumstances stealing to pay for their kid's chemo or to stop from being homeless. They want make money super fast, by stealing high end products and turning them/reselling.

Remember when the Peloton van was stolen in Springfield a few months ago? And it just drove away on the outer loop to Maryland never to be seen again. Do you think they stole those bikes to get in shape? No, they flipped them, like on craigslist or fb marketplace. And not because they can't get a living wage or have enough recreation time. That mindset is part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No need to publicize these property crimes. These retailers have insurance to cover any loss or damage. Don’t give trumpians any ammo to use against BIPOC.

Wow, what? Racist much?

Also, so you realize that some BIPOC also are business owners?

And, insurance covers loss or damage? Not quite how it works. Costs get passed on to consumers. Possibly also BIPOC.

So weird.

Not only that, but the business typically suffers terribly while the repairs are done over the course of 8 weeks to several months or even a year. It is not a crime with no victims. Everyone in the community loses from these crimes. There were a rash of broken windows in Chinatown / Gallery Place last year along these lines. Large span tempered glass / spandrel panels often costs 10k plus and take months to order / ship for the large custom panes. Retailers and landlords sometimes have to pay out of pocket just to get the order in,, and be reimbursed 6 mos later. Depending on the size of the business, this money might empty a restaurant owner's emergency account or their private savings.

[Anonymous]

This is an alarming twist

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/armed-robbers-target-la-holiday-party-demand-guests-hand-over-their-jewelry-and-phones/ar-AARwNt7?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

[Anonymous]

This is not going to end well. People will get guns and if someone comes to your home with a gun will they be shot? OR are people going to be hiring private security to host a party?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For anyone replying with "something must be done!"

What exactly do you think can be done when a group of 20+ people show up, grab stuff, and are gone in minutes? There's literally nothing one or even two security guards can do against a group that size, and it would be logistically impossible to mount a police response on the scale required to arrest that many people at once in the mere minutes it takes them to disperse.

Short of having a 100 man SWAT team on standby 24/7, what exactly do you want the police to do? Insurance covers the cost, and police round up as many as they can after the fact using security footage. That's about the best we can hope for.

The plain fact is that social media has provided a tool for these criminals to organize on a far more effective level than police could possibly have the resources to prevent, no matter how much additional funding you could realistically give them.

If you actually want to stop this stuff from happening, the real solution is not to increase funding to the police, it's to raise wages, increase access to healthcare, force all employers to offer generous vacation time, and increase funding to public transit so that parents can spend time raising their kids and not spend 18 hours a day commuting to two jobs they can never take any time off from.

Hire Kyle Rittenhouse or roof top Koreans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone replying with "something must be done!"

What exactly do you think can be done when a group of 20+ people show up, grab stuff, and are gone in minutes? There's literally nothing one or even two security guards can do against a group that size, and it would be logistically impossible to mount a police response on the scale required to arrest that many people at once in the mere minutes it takes them to disperse.

Short of having a 100 man SWAT team on standby 24/7, what exactly do you want the police to do? Insurance covers the cost, and police round up as many as they can after the fact using security footage. That's about the best we can hope for.

The plain fact is that social media has provided a tool for these criminals to organize on a far more effective level than police could possibly have the resources to prevent, no matter how much additional funding you could realistically give them.

If you actually want to stop this stuff from happening, the real solution is not to increase funding to the police, it's to raise wages, increase access to healthcare, force all employers to offer generous vacation time, and increase funding to public transit so that parents can spend time raising their kids and not spend 18 hours a day commuting to two jobs they can never take any time off from.

Hire Kyle Rittenhouse or roof top Koreans.

Especially if the Koreans were ROK -- those m'fers are mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No need to publicize these property crimes. These retailers have insurance to cover any loss or damage. Don’t give trumpians any ammo to use against BIPOC.

Wow, what? Racist much?

Also, so you realize that some BIPOC also are business owners?

And, insurance covers loss or damage? Not quite how it works. Costs get passed on to consumers. Possibly also BIPOC.

So weird.

Not only that, but the business typically suffers terribly while the repairs are done over the course of 8 weeks to several months or even a year. It is not a crime with no victims. Everyone in the community loses from these crimes. There were a rash of broken windows in Chinatown / Gallery Place last year along these lines. Large span tempered glass / spandrel panels often costs 10k plus and take months to order / ship for the large custom panes. Retailers and landlords sometimes have to pay out of pocket just to get the order in,, and be reimbursed 6 mos later. Depending on the size of the business, this money might empty a restaurant owner's emergency account or their private savings.

They have insurance. No one is hurt.

Besides the insurance companies are filthy rich corporations likely owned by white people.

[Anonymous]

Just when I think, “Oh, that poster isn’t serious,” I realize that they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No need to publicize these property crimes. These retailers have insurance to cover any loss or damage. Don’t give trumpians any ammo to use against BIPOC.

Wow, what? Racist much?

Also, so you realize that some BIPOC also are business owners?

And, insurance covers loss or damage? Not quite how it works. Costs get passed on to consumers. Possibly also BIPOC.

So weird.

Not only that, but the business typically suffers terribly while the repairs are done over the course of 8 weeks to several months or even a year. It is not a crime with no victims. Everyone in the community loses from these crimes. There were a rash of broken windows in Chinatown / Gallery Place last year along these lines. Large span tempered glass / spandrel panels often costs 10k plus and take months to order / ship for the large custom panes. Retailers and landlords sometimes have to pay out of pocket just to get the order in,, and be reimbursed 6 mos later. Depending on the size of the business, this money might empty a restaurant owner's emergency account or their private savings.

They have insurance. No one is hurt.

Besides the insurance companies are filthy rich corporations likely owned by white people.

You are profoundly unintelligent. Stay in school people so you don’t end up like this imbecile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just when I think, “Oh, that poster isn’t serious,” I realize that they are.

Oh I know plenty of people like that PP in real life. Criminals are always ‘victims’ and commit crimes due to their circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No need to publicize these property crimes. These retailers have insurance to cover any loss or damage. Don’t give trumpians any ammo to use against BIPOC.

Wow, what? Racist much?

Also, so you realize that some BIPOC also are business owners?

And, insurance covers loss or damage? Not quite how it works. Costs get passed on to consumers. Possibly also BIPOC.

So weird.

Not only that, but the business typically suffers terribly while the repairs are done over the course of 8 weeks to several months or even a year. It is not a crime with no victims. Everyone in the community loses from these crimes. There were a rash of broken windows in Chinatown / Gallery Place last year along these lines. Large span tempered glass / spandrel panels often costs 10k plus and take months to order / ship for the large custom panes. Retailers and landlords sometimes have to pay out of pocket just to get the order in,, and be reimbursed 6 mos later. Depending on the size of the business, this money might empty a restaurant owner's emergency account or their private savings.

And, in areas where this happens often, businesses simply close down or do not reopen. Then people wonder why there aren’t any grocery stores or a Target in some neighborhoods. Not worth it if theft is so rampant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No need to publicize these property crimes. These retailers have insurance to cover any loss or damage. Don’t give trumpians any ammo to use against BIPOC.

Wow, what? Racist much?

Also, so you realize that some BIPOC also are business owners?

And, insurance covers loss or damage? Not quite how it works. Costs get passed on to consumers. Possibly also BIPOC.

So weird.

Not only that, but the business typically suffers terribly while the repairs are done over the course of 8 weeks to several months or even a year. It is not a crime with no victims. Everyone in the community loses from these crimes. There were a rash of broken windows in Chinatown / Gallery Place last year along these lines. Large span tempered glass / spandrel panels often costs 10k plus and take months to order / ship for the large custom panes. Retailers and landlords sometimes have to pay out of pocket just to get the order in,, and be reimbursed 6 mos later. Depending on the size of the business, this money might empty a restaurant owner's emergency account or their private savings.

They have insurance. No one is hurt.

Besides the insurance companies are filthy rich corporations likely owned by white people.

You are profoundly unintelligent. Stay in school people so you don’t end up like this imbecile.

But what if "filthy rich corporations likely owned by white people" poster learned this in school?

[Anonymous]

^^^ university, not school