Posted on 04/04/2020 10:00:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) is encouraging residents in his city to tattletale on their neighbors who defy his stay-at-home order. Specifically, he's targetting businesses that continue to remain open despite not being considered "essential" (at least by government standards).
“If any non-essential businesses continue to operate in violation of the stay at home order, we’re going to act to enforce the safer at home order and ensure their compliance,” Garcetti said. “You know the old expression about snitches. Well, in this case, snitches get rewards.”
“We want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe,” the mayor said during a press conference “Your decision to stay home may mean that there’s one less person who needs a ventilator we do not have.”
Garcetti’s office has already sent the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to 144 of the more than 500 non-essential businesses that failed to follow his order. Of those, four have been sent to the city attorney’s office for misdemeanor charges.
The mayor’s team encouraged residents to submit business violations here, on the city website. It’s unclear what the so-called “rewards” will be (if anything).
The announcement comes after Garcetti formed his "Safer at Home" Business Ambassadors program last month. The program "deploys city workers and volunteers with the mayor's Crisis Response Team to businesses that appear to be out of compliance with the emergency order with a goal of securing voluntary compliance. If voluntary compliance is not achieved, the ambassadors will share information with the city attorney and LAPD for follow-up."
'Snitches Get Rewards': Garcetti Encourages Community To Report Businesses Violating Safer At Home
Getting children to “rat out” on their parents is going to be difficult as the schools are closed.
Jewelry stores especially targeted. Windows were, of course, broken.
If someone snitched on me, I would take it as an attack on me and my family. The snitch would get his comeuppance, times four. It definitely would not be worth the reward.
Keith Richards’ Mom.
Just like the East German Stazi.
Needs to be upgraded to mention sucking chest wounds.
Shades of Pavel Morozov
Use a VPN and load it up with "wild goose chase" data. Screw these petty tyrants.
Or the Kampetai in Japan. In the Clint Eastwood movie Letters from Iwo Jima they shot a family's dog for barking too much. "Just following orders."
Instead of a statue, the folks in East LA can make Pavel Pinatas.
No, I was seriously asking. I never heard the expression.
More likely an all expense paid cruise on the Diamond Princess.
Somebody warn Jude Law.
Control Freaks are in their element now. Having a ball, telling everyone in minute detail what they are allowed to do, today. Changing it tomorrow. Blowing the whistle on people who don’t let them control them. Jailing people for surfing.
Yup, Control Freak paradise has been achieved.
Heard about this yesterday.
There is a real danger of our rights being changed or eliminated because of this.
We can’t let it happen.
What’s that still from?
F-— Garcetti, and the same to the jack boots at the LAPD who are harassing businessmen and women.
“The Secret Lives of Others”.
Watch the movie.
It is terrifying to me how quickly we’ve succumbed.
Amen and Amen.
Hopefully people are waking up.
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