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A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts
New York Times via internet archive ^ | April 15, 2023 | Hurubie Meko

Posted on 04/16/2023 10:18:39 AM PDT by grundle

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To: aquila48

One of the most crime free cities in the world is Dubai. They don’t cut of hands anymore, but give stiff jail time and jail isn’t air conditioned and the daytime temperature hits 120


21 posted on 04/16/2023 11:58:16 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: grundle
SPJNK327.
22 posted on 04/16/2023 12:06:46 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: grundle

Ask any veteran cop and they’ll tell you that only a handful of perps commit the majority of crimes.

I didn’t actually see the any of the shows, just the YouTube shorts, but there was a scene in “Game of Thrones” where the little man said, “Amazingly, there has been a drop in the number of thefts. Why is that?” His “general” said, “We arrested the thieves.” “What? All of them?” “There’s only a small number and they won’t be a problem.” (Meaning he’d killed them.)


23 posted on 04/16/2023 12:08:57 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: AAABEST

Yes!


24 posted on 04/16/2023 12:15:40 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: grundle

13 do 50


25 posted on 04/16/2023 12:54:16 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: from occupied ga

I’ve been meaning to visit the Emirates.

Islam there has morphed into what a truly Christian America used to be like.

Probably it’s values are indistinguishable from what ours used to be.

We on the other hand have morphed into a cesspool.


26 posted on 04/16/2023 12:59:31 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: grundle

the number is much higher, they just all look alike


27 posted on 04/16/2023 1:12:36 PM PDT by changeitback440
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To: aquila48

I read someplace that shoplifting gets you up to a to a year. Falling behind on your car payments gets jail time too, although I don’t remember how much. There are a surprising number of abandoned luxury vehicles where the owner decided to leave the car and the UAE rather than face the punishment for falling behind on the payments. While I think that just letting the bank repossess the car would be good enough, I have to agree on the penalty for shoplifting. If our shoplifters got a year every time they committed the crime I suspect the “shrinkage” would slow to a trickle.


28 posted on 04/16/2023 1:53:59 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: grundle
they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.


29 posted on 04/16/2023 2:40:49 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: from occupied ga

Another place that has a very low crime rate, miniscule drug use, and “homeless” is Singapore.

I guess cracking down on criminals and druggies works!


30 posted on 04/16/2023 5:00:19 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: riverrunner

Thug: Momma told me I should get a career instead of being in one juvie detention after another. So I gots me the one I’m good at: career criminal thief.

Other thread mentions it is not a petty thing but adds up to a lot of money:
Thread: As Walmart shuts down four stores in crime-ridden Dem-led Chicago, DailyMail.com lists all the big box shops - from Macy’s to Target - which have closed due to millions in losses from rampant theft.

Millions!


31 posted on 04/16/2023 5:12:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: grundle

I call B.S.


32 posted on 04/16/2023 5:14:00 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: aquila48
I guess cracking down on criminals and druggies works!

Oh no you have to pat them on the heard and punish the victims for defending their property. That's the way to reduce crime. Just ask any San Francisco voter. Just ask any of the business that have been driven to close because so much merchandise was stolen that the stores were operating at a loss

33 posted on 04/16/2023 7:45:18 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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