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Wisconsin College Admin: Police Shouldn’t Prosecute Shoplifters
The Daily Caller ^ | 08/21/2015 | Blake Neff

Posted on 08/21/2015 12:08:36 PM PDT by magellan

An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested at a recent roundtable conversation that, in order to combat "overpolicing" in the community, police should no longer respond to shoplifting claims at large stores such as Wal-Mart, and shouldn't agree to prosecute people caught stealing.

"I just don't think that they should be prosecuting cases ... for people who steal from Wal-Mart. I just don't think that, right?" said UW-Madison director of community relations Everett Mitchell. "I don't think [with] Target or all them other places, them big box stores that have insurance, they should be using justification, the fact that people steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police practices, right?"

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; holderspeople; scottwalker; wisconsin
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To: magellan

Moonbats like that are what’s wrong with “higher education” in the USA


21 posted on 08/21/2015 12:18:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: magellan

Perhaps the director should actually learn how to speak first before airing his stupidity, er opinion.


22 posted on 08/21/2015 12:18:40 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: magellan

Everybody in Wisconsin and surrounding states should start crashing in on the courses, and then walking out with “souvenirs”. Bet that will change their idiotic thinking. And these are the people teaching our future.


23 posted on 08/21/2015 12:19:04 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: ken5050

Beat ya by 2 minutes!


24 posted on 08/21/2015 12:19:40 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: magellan
"overpolicing" in the community, police should no longer respond to shoplifting claims at large stores such as Wal-Mart, and shouldn't agree to prosecute people caught stealing.

Ok, then we need to stop "overpolicing" liberal professor neighborhoods. Especially "large universities" liberal professor neighborhoods in schools like Big Ten, SEC, ACC, etc.
25 posted on 08/21/2015 12:19:49 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: magellan
...them big box stores that have insurance...

I doubt very much they have shoplifting insurance.
That comes out of the pocket of customers.
Even if they had insurance, someone would have to pay for that too.
Another Liberal idiot who think big businesses have unlimited money.

26 posted on 08/21/2015 12:19:52 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: magellan

UW-Madison director of community relations Everett Mitchell does not think you should be prosecuted for petty theft.

Find out where he lives and go take whatever you want!


27 posted on 08/21/2015 12:21:11 PM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: magellan

Everett Mitchell

28 posted on 08/21/2015 12:21:25 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: magellan

#BlackCrimeMatters


29 posted on 08/21/2015 12:21:34 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: magellan

An allegedly educated person with the mentality of a child.


30 posted on 08/21/2015 12:21:50 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Black Agnes

Actually, it was by 10 seconds..I started my post, decided to make it caps and bold, and then the phone rang..darn.....


31 posted on 08/21/2015 12:21:54 PM PDT by ken5050 ("Hillary Clinton is the NY Jets of American politics"......Salena Zito)
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To: magellan

Ah, further proof (as if this was needed) that the vast majority of virtually every university faculty does not possess the intelligence or common sense of your average house dog. (STEM excepted, of course.)

Remember that when your local sinkhole of taxes and tuition (otherwise known as a university) moans about insufficient funding.


32 posted on 08/21/2015 12:21:58 PM PDT by Da Coyote (Di)
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To: magellan

Wow! THEM Wisconsin COLLEGE Administrators . . there they go again! Looter Rooters!


33 posted on 08/21/2015 12:22:06 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Black Agnes

You’d need a handcart to carry off a math or science textbook.


34 posted on 08/21/2015 12:22:47 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Robert DeLong

I bet he spent his summer “community organizing” in Ferguson...


35 posted on 08/21/2015 12:23:13 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: magellan

Maybe they should visit his house and start taking stuff..........................


36 posted on 08/21/2015 12:25:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: detective

Who does this idiot think pays for shoplifting?”

They obviously don’t have a clue. Had a garage sale a couple of weeks ago so that I could get rid of the things I no longer need/use and so I would have some extra money to fix my roof. Just amazed at how many people tried to slip small things in their pockets or purses without paying.


37 posted on 08/21/2015 12:25:36 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: magellan

Link:

Everett Mitchell on Best Policing Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2OQF8tjUTU&feature=youtu.be


38 posted on 08/21/2015 12:25:40 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: madison10

GMTA!...................


39 posted on 08/21/2015 12:25:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Sacajaweau
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Thanks for the link to the response from the former Pastor, current College Director of Community Outreach:

...I am saddened that those with differing agendas have taken a selective portion of a larger conversation out of context in an effort to discredit my views. My comments around “big box” retailers were in no way an endorsement of shoplifting or other criminal behavior, but part of a point about how the distribution of police resources to areas with high numbers of misdemeanor crimes can bring low income or people of color into frequent contact with law enforcement....

Of course he is endorsing criminal behavior if he is taking the position that criminal behavior should be condoned. As a former Pastor, why would he even suggest such a thing? Chastisement and corrections serve a purpose.

40 posted on 08/21/2015 12:27:07 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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