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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stealing is stealing. How you feel if he stole $1000 from your pocket book? [/quote]

You are just as disgusting as this poor excuse of a human who was his manager. A normal, decent human being would have told this kid after the first time that he is not allowed to steal.[b] An even better human being would have bought the kid his lunch.[/b] Only an evil person waits in waiting for a month for [b]a hungry kid [/b]to steal enough food so the charges can be higher.

Also, he didn’t steal $1000 from anyone, he stole some of the cheapest food they have. If you can’t see the difference there is zero hope for you. May yoh be hungry enough one day to confer stealing a chicken nugget and a fruit cup. [/quote]
Different poster than the one you are quoting here.
Ok, you're being absurd.

You think the manager should be responsible for buying his employee lunch every day?   Should he do that for EVERY employee?  That would literally exceed his salary.

"Hungry kid?"  You think this kid is chronically hungry?    Or just gets hungry around lunch time the way every human does?[/quote]

God forbid you buy a meal for a hungry person!!!!! RIGHT.

No one is making the manager responsible. I said a better human being would feed a hungry kid. Clearly, that went right over your head. Just don't worry about it.[/quote]

I fault corporate, the greedy Republican Meijer family, all the store management involved, and the cop. Cops should refuse to respond to such bullshit calls. If anything, the kid should just be driven home by the cop. Arresting him and booking him for chicken tenders and fruit cups? Insane. Making it more tear-jerking, the boy remained polite and cordial the entire time. ;([/quote]
Are you insane? The police don’t just get to subjectively pick and choose which calls they want to deem “bullshit”. Do you really want to go there? If so, which scenario in which you were victimized would you be willing to sacrifice justice?[/quote]

Police and sheriffs have discretion to enforce or not enforce anything they want. You’ve never gotten a warning for speeding, expired plates, not having your insurance paperwork on you? Never had a party busted and the cops just make underage kids dump the booze out but don’t arrest and book anyone for underage intoxication and possession? You’re one of those bootlickers who thinks the police are just doing their jobs. No. This cop and his sergeant are paid $100,000+ each and this is a bullshit waste of time and taxpayer dollars.[/quote]
Speeding tickets are civil infractions. Finding a kid drinking underage and letting them go with a warning is different than someone calling the police to press charges because a teen came into their home and stole their alcohol. The difference is another person is involved—the victim. If the person tells the police they want to press charges, the police officer’s hands are tied. If a retail business calls the police and says they want to press charges, the police have to take the report and follow the procedure.

I can tell you firsthand that we do try to dissuade people from doing this because it is a lot of paperwork and hassle, and because most people don’t actually want justice, especially in situations like a teen stealing alcohol from a residence, they just want to make that person’s life difficult while not having it affect them, but it doesn’t work that way. We explain that they WILL have to show up to subsequent court proceedings if they choose to go forward with pressing charges. Sometimes they back down, sometimes they don’t. But retail conglomerates have lawyers of their own and the time and money to proceed, and it is their right.

With that said, I think these managers are complete jerks and deserve to be called out. But as far as whether or not the police officer in this situation could have just walked away? No, he couldn’t, and you shouldn’t want him to. The third party victim changes everything, and the officer’s hands are tied. [/quote]

There is absolutely zero procedural need for an officer to place cuffs on and book a non-violent subject for ALLEGEDLY $100 worth of chicken tenders and fruit cups over two months time. For such a petty larceny the officer can issue him a paper misdemeanor civil infraction or summons and offer to drive him home. The cop was complicit in this evil and demoralizing scheme.[/quote]
It depends on the jurisdiction but some department procedures require cuffing anyone who will be placed in a police car. This is the case in my jurisdiction. In my jurisdiction, we also aren’t allowed to drive people home if they live outside of our city. I don’t know the specifics of this case and I also can’t speak on what the penal codes are in Ohio or the departmental procedures in this city. But clearly the manager knows he waited long enough for the crime to be deemed arrest-able, and that’a what the police did. [/quote]

Okay. Issue him a paper misdemeanor and let him walk home.[/quote]

Yeah, why didn't he get a ticket and walk home? Why the whole book him at the station? [/quote]
Because a third-party was involved who pressed charges and had enough evidence to prove the person committed the crime.

I think a lot of you are confused on how crimes change when a third party witness who wants to press charges is involved. If the witness/victim is pressing charges, the perpetrator has to be booked into the system. To do this, they must be arrested. [/quote]

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