How Los Angeles became a hotbed for terrifying ‘follow home’ robberies

Nypost ^ | 06/04/2022 | Heather Robinson

[BobL]

I dealt with a follow-home, and was very lucky. I had just bought a laptop at Best Buy and they don’t bother putting it in a bag - so people have to advertise it on their way out of the store. Wound up that I caught on at the last minute and drove past my house, made a U-Turn at the end of the street, with him doing the same...then started heading to the police station, at which time he veered off.

Obvious things to do are not to show off in public and not drive around in expensive-looking cars.

[ansel12]

Originally it was mostly Orientals because they had cash businesses such as restaurants and carried cash home, and kept a lot of cash at home.

[Grampa Dave]

Mama always said nothing good ever happens after midnight.

So did my Dad.

[EastTexasTraveler]

More consequences that no one could possibly have predicted. I feel sorry for people there who did not vote for this crap.

[databoss]

Honestly if you support the Democratic regimes like they have in LA then you deserve to get robbed at gunpoint, on the street, with a knife, with a gun, at your house, car jacked all of the above because you’re a freaking idiot.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Mostly that honest people are unable to arm themselves and the disinclination of the "law" to lock up violent criminals.

There is no reason not to take what you want.

[Billthedrill]

...people in large groups … up to five carloads of individuals, and most of them appear to be armed, coordinating amongst themselves to target people.

That's why they call it organized crime. I remember when I used to think the five-shot revolver I carried should be enough. Long time ago.

According to Tippet, the “follow-home” crime surge is attributable at least in part to reluctance on the part of the office of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon to seek the stiffest possible sentences for suspected gang members.

Or to prosecute at all. Gascon's idea of social justice and prison reform has freed the oppressed to attack primarily minorities. Could it be that CRT stuff is stupid in the real world?

[sarge83]

The people voted for this weak on crime stance with the leftist idiots they keep putting into office. They get no sympathy from me whatsoever. They are reaping a bitter harvest from thirty years of voting marxist. This is on the people...

[silent majority rising]

“While it was “heroic” of Martin, who is a “special young man to try and intervene,” Dupree said, “We advise people to give up their jewelry or watches.”” And yet, had they been armed, they could have blown them away, and put a lot of doubt in the minds of the next perps that were left alive. Examples are easy.