Seems like there could be a “middle ground” on something like this. Perhaps the honest people there (which are most are) that are interested in home delivery pass some kind of background check that looks at who lives in the house and assess their level of threat (if they have high school ‘youths’ living there, high level of threat, if little kids or no kids, low level).
I realize it sounds “big brother”, but it would be voluntary. I just have a problem with denying service to a 70 year old black couple because there might be a rapper living 2 doors down.
Pizza delivery robberies fall into a couple of scenarios:
Random car jacking (see the man at a traffic light or stop sign and rob him).
Dialing the number and ordering a delivery driver to come to “your” door.
- The unwise criminal calls the pizza place and requests the driver come to his actual residence and thus is on file when the driver is robbed and killed.
- The scheming criminal calls the pizza place and requests the driver come to A residence (not his own, waiting outside, perhaps)
So background checks on callers or addresses may not work so well. They CAN keep phone numbers on file and do call backs (call backs became a thing when kids would prank an order for 3 or 4 or more pizzas to one address) but I’m sure the residents of the 9th ward would complain still about being singled out “papers please” etc.your
Or the answer could be as simple as letting drivers have arms while on the clock, something I’m sure that Dominos will not permit. As another poster pointed out, this isn’t a problem, but a business opportunity. Perhaps 9th Ward Armored Pizza Delivery could also accept EBT cards.