Dave? Dave’s not here man.
2014 and 2020 Pittsfield and Canton, Michigan Target stores had their glass doors smashed by a car driven by teens at night. Stole high cost items, mostly electronics. Repeated several times until one group was caught.
I remember the day after one that I remarked to my wife "Target really is doing a messy job of replacing their front doors. What a mess." Then the news report was allowed out to the people several hours later that next day.
The reward will turn out to be a small portion of the patients’ copays as they-—not Target or police—pay for being in the hospital, because snitches get stitches.
Witnesses and jurors end up saying “I’m in a lot of pain but at least I didn’t get killed and they didn’t kill my family. That’s something. But never, ever again.”
Before anyone attempts to disagree with me....
From Google AI search.
Known information on witness intimidation and harm
Gang and drug-related intimidation: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) reports that prosecutors in some gang-controlled neighborhoods estimate that intimidation occurs in 75–100% of violent crime cases.
Retaliation is a severe issue in many communities: A 2007 Denver Post investigation found that at least 16 witnesses or their associates in Colorado had been murdered since 1998, despite the state having a witness protection fund. Many of these victims had repeatedly reported threats to authorities before their deaths.
Reluctance to cooperate: Intimidation is a major reason why witnesses become uncooperative, go missing, or recant statements. A 1994 report noted that fear of retaliation deterred a greater number of witnesses than victims from reporting crimes.
Retaliation is a federal crime: Federal law criminalizes witness retaliation, with penalties including life in prison if a witness is killed. The law applies to actions taken for past testimony, such as killing or injuring a witness or damaging their property.
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From a lawyer on a discussion site:
In civil cases, about 1% of cases ever get to the point where they actually start a trial and hear even one witness. Many of those settle in the middle of the trial.
That doesn’t include cases which are settled by a process called “summary judgment” where the case is decided on affidavit evidence where the facts aren’t much in dispute. That settles about 5% of cases.
The rest are either dropped, settled, or eventually tossed for delays.
The real drive-thru method of service.
A Safeway Grocery Store in Sacramento, Kalifornia had a few cars that blew through the front wall. The first was a driver hitting Drive (D) instead of reverse. Went right through the wall into the Starbucks seating area (no coffee was destroyed in the incident).
About a year later, another person used Drive (D) instead of reverse. She went right through the wall into the flower shop.
The store now has barriers to prevent reoccurrences.
“”they used two vehicles. One to gain entrance and the other to get away.””
Shouldn’t be too hard to find - a car left at the scene too damaged to drive, I suspect and another damaged car on the streets....both stolen? Probably which will make it more difficult.
‘Teens’. Did they have their ages painted on their backs? Or is teens the usual euphemism for black thugs?
You make money off druggies, you lose money off druggies.
Better Headline:
Evil sellers get taken by evil buyers.
My comment, yesterday on another post about break-ins at a dispensary. NM is libtardigan Stoopid....
Marijuana stores, with the drug and paraphanalia in WA, OR and CA. Robbers figured out that since no cards were legal to transact sales, that there would be lots of cash. They figured out that they could steal two cars, and crash one through the doors. Then usually 3 people would run in, steal product, and any safe, jump in the other car and drive away. Of course fully protected, wearing Covid and ski masks.
Now they put Bollards around the store, to keep that from happening. Fully cash exchanges, and glass store fronts. A recipe for what happened.