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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
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To: magellan

Thieves don’t just steal merchandise and money.

They steal your freedom.

Let’s say a thief breaks into your house and steals your $1000 TV.

If you are making $20 an hour, you worked 50 hours to get that TV.

That’s 50 hours that you could have spent fishing or working on the lawn, but in order to buy that TV, you sold 50 hours of your freedom. That’s a choice that we make. Now, you have to give up another 50 hours of freedom to get another TV.

So, when the thief grabs your TV, he is also grabbing your freedom.

And it is the same for thieves stealing from stores or the businesses they work for or the government.

Thieves are tyrants. They steal your freedom. They should be treated like tyrants.


61 posted on 08/21/2015 12:44:56 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: magellan

Let this dumb-ass administrator open her home up to BLM and give them room to loot and burn.


62 posted on 08/21/2015 12:46:25 PM PDT by TexasCajun (I'll believe in man-made global warming when those that believe it, act like it.)
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To: newgeezer

Not faculty. An illiterate affirmative action token.


63 posted on 08/21/2015 12:46:29 PM PDT by wjr123
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To: magellan

It isn’t any of his freaking business what stores and local police departments do to enforce shoplifting laws. It is hard to believe that these people actually have college degrees. Thanks affirmative action.


64 posted on 08/21/2015 12:47:52 PM PDT by joemsewi
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To: magellan

I am having flashbacks to being 12 years old and watching looters on TV during the New York City Blackout.

“This is God’s way of giving us an opportunity to get EVEN with THE MAN!” was the cry of nearly every one of them.


65 posted on 08/21/2015 12:49:58 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: magellan

He’s a professor and he comes up with this crap? he should be fired, for gross stupidity.


66 posted on 08/21/2015 12:50:21 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (ThereÂ’s a race war already raging, I didnÂ’t start it but I have chosen sides.)
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To: WayneS

Yeah, really. You’d think that along with everything else he’s accused of Scott Walker would have eliminated this moron’s job.


67 posted on 08/21/2015 12:51:08 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: El Cid
The administrator is quoted as having said: "... an effort to discredit my views."

Somebody needs to tell the administrator of the famous quote attributed to Willie Sutton the famed bank robber, in answer to the question, "Why do you rob banks?"

He said, "Because that's where the money is."

The police respond to shoplifters at the big box stores because that's where the criminals are.

68 posted on 08/21/2015 12:52:17 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Graybeard58

He’s a professor and he comes up with this crap? he should be fired, for gross stupidity.

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Oops. Not a professor but an administrator. Still fire his dumb a$$>


69 posted on 08/21/2015 12:52:28 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (ThereÂ’s a race war already raging, I didnÂ’t start it but I have chosen sides.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I wonder who wrote that for him?


70 posted on 08/21/2015 12:54:12 PM PDT by wjr123
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To: GraceG; All
By that logic students should shoplift their over priced liberal indoctrination manuals from the commie college campus commissary

My thoughts exactly! If someone stole something from his college he would change his tune in a heartbeat!
71 posted on 08/21/2015 12:57:15 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: wjr123

You can be 100% certain it was not Michelle Obama.


72 posted on 08/21/2015 12:57:51 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: magellan

“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?”

73 posted on 08/21/2015 12:59:00 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: magellan

Uh-huh.

74 posted on 08/21/2015 12:59:00 PM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: magellan

Professor Gimmefreesh1t.

I cant stand this lawless filth in my state.


75 posted on 08/21/2015 12:59:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: JPG

Yup. Just Googled him before I saw these pics. Wasn’t surprised he’s one of Holder’s people.


76 posted on 08/21/2015 1:00:31 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: magellan

Going by the Administrator’s logic if he has insurance and a student gives him a beating, the student shouldn’t be arrested.


77 posted on 08/21/2015 1:01:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: magellan

He’s absolutely right. Police shouldn’t prosecute shoplifters... that’s what we have prosecutors for. Arresting them is the police’s job.

Ignorance on parade.


78 posted on 08/21/2015 1:04:16 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: magellan

“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?”


A university administrator, eh? Let me guess... an AA hire, right?


79 posted on 08/21/2015 1:07:25 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.)
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To: magellan

I would suspect that this barely literate spokesman grew up as a thief and condones theft.


80 posted on 08/21/2015 1:14:10 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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