http://news.wisc.edu/23958
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 let’s 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 don’t 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 shouldn’t 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!
Mitchell’s ideas were made public at...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
yeppers everyone whose edjumacted knows it’s “them there”
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http://news.wisc.edu/23958
The Director of Community Relations at a major university likely makes a very good salary. Compared to most of the world, he is one of the big, powerful, rich folks. Therefore, those who have less should feel free to steal from him, and he cannot call the police to enforce the laws. It's for "fairness" and "social justice", after all.
What the moron fails to realize is that every penny lost by the big evil box stores will simply be passed on as losses to customers (which is basically all of us), as well as lower return and dividends to investors (around 20-30 percent of all Americans own at least some stock in one of the big box stores, thanks to 401k's, etc). He is basically just encouraging another system of welfare, but this time without rules or qualifications. The worst and most evil takers get to take the most, instead of the most needy.
Rationale....money can be replaced, people cannot.
Owner: Wow, we sold out!
Clerk: Ummm...not exactly.
I sure hope this guy limits his shoplifting to his local county. That “ Do you know who I am?” thing won’t go well furthur away from his crib.
And who do you think ends up paying for that insurance your moron? It ain't the people stealing. It's the poor honest slobs who pay for what they purchase.
Don’t need a picture, a little ebonics should help right from this “college administrator”: (them big box stores”.
This POS should be a janitor at best in a college.
ok, let me get my crayons.
O’Boy I will get myself a shopping cart and head for Wal-mart and load it up could use new TV, Fancy phone, Nice camera, choice meats and head out the door. If I get caught claim I am senior citizen I thought I paid, you mean I didn’t oops sorry will be back with money.
Holy crap! If the people who live in these bad areas fall for this sort of thinking they will end up living in Mad Max-like wastelands where there is not a business to be found. And yes, big box stores do have insurance but they can’t afford the premiums because they try to keep theft and damage claims to minimum. If any business makes too many claims The insurance rates will rise until they won’t be able to afford their insurance and then where did the freebies come from?
If you are a lefty troll please listen carefully. If businesses cannot make a profit because they are being robbed every 5 seconds and/or being burned to the ground by BLM thugs, they will close up. People in these neighborhoods will have to walk, bike, take a bus, or drive a stolen car to go shopping elsewhere where their antics will not be look kindly upon. They might not get shot in their own neighborhoods but they’ll get shot in everybody else’s.
If you’re black person reading this please understand this is meant kindly. If this becomes the norm in your neighborhoods then all of you will be eating nothing but government cheese.
Given his bad grammar, we don't need a picture. He's obviously an "diversity" hire.
Boom....I believe zero was an adjunct lecturer, not a perfesser. That’s what I remember.
That policy announced would immediately creat long lines of “shoppers” who simply take stuff and leave.
Gee, Mr. Mitchell, just how long do you suppose those stores will stay in business if we all just walk in and help ourselves to whatever we want?
Absolutely correct. You hand over the money and don’t put you life or that of others at risk. Let the guy take the money and leave.
However what this POS is suggesting is not calling the cops after the robber flees, but submitting an insurance claim instead.
I wonder if he considers it legal to steal his possessions from his house? (rhetorical, we can guess the answer is “No”)
The administrator should be put in charge of security at the local Walmart, and have to pay for any stolen item. This is the thinking you get from people in academia.
Redesignate the administrator’s home, and the college’s bookstore, cafeteria and gift shop as large stores, and let the games begin.
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