Posted on 09/01/2015 10:02:09 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has suggested that police stop making arrests for shoplifting at large stores. They have insurance, lots of money, so lets think safety first and let the thieves do their thing!!!
The gentleman responsible for this remarkable flash of genius is UW-Madison Director of Community Relations, Everett Mitchell. I dont think [with] Target or all them other places, them big box stores that have insurance, they should be using justification, the fact that people steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police practices, right?
Uh, yes. What he said.
Unwilling to be silent after having made a complete ass of himself, Mitchell decided to keep digging with the extraordinary statement that community police shouldnt prioritize enforcing the law, but instead should focus on achieving safety as it is defined by a local community, even if that definition includes allowing some stores to be robbed with impunity.
So people should apparently be permitted to steal anything they can comfortably carry? Would Community Relations Director Mitchell demand hand trucks be provided to the more productive or aggressive thieves in order to avert possible back injury? Safety first, after all.
And it should be the local community that decides how and where police should prioritize enforcing the law. Wanna bet the local Cadillac and Lincoln dealers will be assigned a very low policing priority!
Mitchells ideas were made public at...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Why don’t we test his theory by considering that he makes plenty of money and has insurance so if we march into his home and steal him blind we should not be prosecuted or pursued.
I would also consider publishing his address and let the local thugs know that he is all right with them looting his home because he has plenty of money and insurance.
Banks?
Large universities shouldn’t punish students who plagiarize and cheat, or students who can’t pay their tuition. These values are fun for everyone.
Why then not take things from universities? They have even more money.
My wife works for a large “home improvement” store chain, and confronting a shoplifter is grounds for termination of employment!
Apparently, the corporate lawyers have decided that losses due to theft are less than getting sued by detained shoplifter, or an employee who is injured or killed trying to stop them.
But then again, my wife works in a store where less than a third of the customers speak English, making the clientele a protected class, and they know it.
This guy is running a collegate welfare fraud here.
This guy is an administrator in a college? If this is typical of college employees, we are so screwed as a nation. But then look at President Obama, supposedly a brilliant constitutional law professor, who barely knows the constitution other than as an instrument to be circumvented.
Cut off something. We need some affirming action to help the FI understand private property is to be respected. If not you have no claim either. Let the burglaries begin.
I guess the next step after this would be to make burglary legal too.
Affirmative action hire has not yet mastered the English language
“.....or all them (sic) other places” ?????
Wouldn’t you expect a “Director of COmmunity Relations” would utilize better grammar, or at least have someone proofread his public statements, and not say anything spontaneously for the cameras or microphones?
And he used to be an assistant Dane County district attorney? A prosecutor?
"Mitchell Named UW-Madison Director Of Community Relations MADISON - Everett Mitchell, an assistant Dane County district attorney with a strong track record of community involvement, ..."
Free tuition @ UW. The place is obviously a scam, as Walker is working on it.
I’m sure using this guys logic he is a big supporter of illegal immigration, also we should follow his logic and stop making payments to the IRS.
> My son worked for Gap, and they were not allowed to stop shoplifters.
Good to know. Now I know how to bankrupt a liberal business. Just post this on the BET network, some rap music sites, and a few black thug Facebook pages and sit back and watch it go down in flames.
Once word really gets out that there will be no call to the police or prosecution “shoplifting” will quickly turn into “looting”.
The rates of the insurance that these big companies pay to cover losses will increase. The companies will pass those increases along to consumers in the form of higher prices.
But since shoplifting is permitted, who would actually PAY for something? Let alone something thats now marked up in price to cover the costs associated with losses due to shoplifting?
I think I’ve boiled that down to a simplistic enough level that this moron could actually understand ...
"Let them touch those things, for once!"
Sooprise, sooprise more overhead
Another Affirmative Action Jackson
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