Posted on 08/18/2018 2:03:38 PM PDT by simpson96
Chicago Police are under fire after allegedly parking a 'bait truck' full of designer shoes in an impoverished neighborhood, two days in a row.
Activists allege on at least one occasion last week, police parked the partially open truck near a group of children playing basketball in Englewood, southwest Chicago, in an attempt to lure them into committing a crime.
'Instead of stopping crime, they're trying to create it,' Martin Johnson, who spent an hour filming the second truck on Friday, said.
He was joined by another local woman, Helen, who said police were forcing an already at-risk group of people behind bars.
'When you live in the conditions that we live in, communities that are starving, and you're hungry, your conditions and your situations make choices for you,' she said, referencing the policeman who just a day before had claimed those arrested had made a 'conscious choice'.
'Whoever acted and went to jail yesterday, they didn't make a conscious decision, their conditions made a decision for them.' On both occasions, police are seen surrounded by furious residents, with marked and undercover police cars parked nearby.
While locals argue to police the trucks are a 'dirty' tactic, and officers are 'setting up' the community, law enforcement was seen arguing back anyone who engaged with the trucks was making a conscious decision.
Fellow activist Charles McKenzie, who works with anti-violence and crime prevention group God's Gorillas, told Vox he believed tactics like bait trucks would damage trust between the community and its local police force.
McKenzie said the alleged bait truck projected the idea police were focused on hurting members of the community, not protecting them.
'How do we supposed to trust [police] if they setting us up like this?' Mckenzie said. 'How can we trust them?'
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Mama stealin' da food stamps?
I believe that values, or lack of values, are a key issue here.
What about the value of honesty, and not taking something which doesn’t belong to you? In this case, of not worrying about a truck full of merchandise parked there? It doesn’t belong to you, so ignore that truck parked there.
Is it racist of me to make such a comment?
Demos got a circular firing squad going on.
They were nice shoes. Not hot dish or taco salad.
Mama’s cashing in the EBT card for 50 cents on the dollar at the Muslim-owned convenience store.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/LK/20140624/News/605067523/DN/
Like Chicago needs MORE crime????
A couple previous threads on this story.
Only individuals who refuse to or are unable to choose to think are deterministic automatons. When a normal person makes the free choice to think, his secondary choices that follow are influenced by his conditions, but he is always able to choose the reasons that cause his actions and overcome negative conditions.
Send ammo.
A CT police department got a dare car one year. A black Camaro.
Before putting the dare decals on it, they decided to use it to challenge kids around town and were pulling over the kids that did it.
I almost got caught. I was 18. luckily, my car was faster and I knew that I had been baited. I’m still angry about that but the truth is - I raced him. I did that. I also duffed him when the lights came on. But yeah, I’m still pretty bent out of shape about the whole thing.
Right! They're all sleep-walkers!
Regards,
You're a liar lady. None of these kids are missing meals. Neither are you.
‘When you live in the conditions that we live in, communities that are starving, and you’re hungry...
Remedy: Get off you fat government cheese infested ass, get a job, stop having kids and do something constructive instead of constantly blaming other people for your failures.
Maybe if the boys in da hood spent as much effort at education they wouldn’t be looking to rob people.
Why bother? Just investigate all the non enticed crime that goes on nonstop.
If you’re starving, you don’t steal Nike shoes. You can’t eat Nike shoes.
They were nice shoes. Not hot dish or taco salad.
Could have been ice cold watermelon on a warm summer evening.
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