Posted on 08/27/2015 6:45:43 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Legal Relativism and Food Insecurity
In the new “legal relativism” and mob justice atmosphere that uses “social justice” as an excuse to loot and burn down stores in their neighborhoods, Everett Mitchell, the Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus, stated during a discussion panel, “Best Policing Practices,” that prosecuting shoplifters from Walmart and Target is “aggressive police behavior.”
“I just don’t think they should be prosecuting cases for people who steal from Walmart. I don’t think that. I don’t think that Target, and all them other places – the big boxes that have insurance – they should be using the people that steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police behavior.”
Perhaps it is why, for the first time in my life, I experienced yesterday at my local Walmart a person stationed at the exit, checking receipts carefully and scanning baskets of goods purchased. It wouldn’t be a far stretch to start checking purses, bags, and backpacks like they did under communism.
The next step will be to sue the store owners when the stores close due to losses.
Perhaps if they stole her books she’d get more interested in social equity and the full use of legal means available to a citizen to stop it.
http://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Ileana-Johnson-Paugh/e/B00I7E6ZGY
“I just don’t think they should be prosecuting cases for people who steal from Walmart.”
I don’t think anyone should be prosecuted for stealing from Mr. Mitchell. (See how that works?)
“We treat an entire race like children” Ann Coulter.
Everett Mitchell - A person who has never had to cover the costs of a business or meet a payroll.
Accordingly, he has absolutely no credibility with me.
“Thou Shalt Not Steal”. Oh wait, we don’t do that in America anymore. The Ten Commandments are now the Ten Suggestions.
There are no “victimless” crimes.
The very fact that a crime is perpetrated by an individual, or group of individuals, has its effect on the psyche of the miscreant, either that “getting away” with it results in no or very little punishment, and therefore is of positive value to the perpetrator, or that self-rationalization determines that some kind of “social justice” has been achieved.
Either way, the moral compass is radically damaged or even smashed altogether, leaving the individual without any kind of internal guidance system at all, a victim that may never be identified, adrift in a bewildering miasma.
I just don’t think they should be prosecuting cases for people who steal from Walmart. I don’t think that. I don’t think that Target, and all them other places – the big boxes that have insurance – they should be using the people that steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police behavior.”
Retail stores DO NOT have insurance against shoplifting. So I reject his premise right off the bat. Even if you are liberal and sympathetic about this, he starts from a false premise.
Save your ammo, Gaffer -- you're mistakenly shooting the messenger! Dr. Paugh is the writer, and Everett Mitchell is the idiot that her column exposes.
My bad....I went to the link but didn’t see the real culprit. Mea culpa.
Walmart does not suffer the cost of shoplifting. We do.
Pilfering and shoplifting is figured into the overall price structure of the goods for sale.
The higher the losses, the higher prices on everything else.
‘Idiocracy’ was not a comedy movie, it was a DOCUMENTARY
From the embedded article...you missed his best qualifications...
"Everett D. Mitchell is the Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an attorney, pastor, and community leader."
I'm guessing the Reverend Al is his hero..."Resist we much.".
I allow Costco to do this, only because it's part of the membership requirement, and I agreed to it.
With Walmart, unless they state it up front, as policy, before I enter the store, they will not be checking my cart contents against my receipt.
At Walmart the employee bonuses each year are tide directly to on how well the store they work at does against “shrinkage” (stealing).
Sounds like someone should publish the address of Everett Mitchell, the Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as an open invitation to “anyone who wants to” to come and take his stuff in a non-violent way. “And don’t worry, he has insurance to pay for anything taken.”
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the goose poop.
” “I just don’t think they should be prosecuting cases for people who steal from Walmart. I don’t think that. I don’t think that Target, and all them other places – the big boxes that have insurance – they should be using the people that steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police behavior.”
Where to start?
IF this a college educated man he should demand his money back. Incoherent babblings that do not utilize even the fundamental rules of the English language.
The idea that if a corporation has insurance to cover losses shows at least two things: a) the idiot does not understand shrink and b) theft is theft whether the victim is insured or not.
Apparently the commies are winning with people espousing this type of logic
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