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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.    [/quote]

SMH with this nonsense. I hope none of you, your family nor your friends work in any store that gets robbed during one of these. It is not a victimless crime.  And the answer isn't to throw up our hands and say "well, insurance will cover it NBD."  Your answer reeks of privilege and lack of real world understanding. These employees risk getting hurt and are exposed to violence and trauma. But as long as insurance covers it (until insurance decides to drop you), I guess that's ok for corporate America, just not the everyday hourly worker.  Got it.[/quote]

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