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Atlanta Police Will No Longer Respond To Some Shoplifting Calls
Fox 5 ^ | 03/20/18 | Morse Diggs

Posted on 03/26/2018 2:21:38 PM PDT by Enlightened1

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To: fr_freak

2) This is a ploy to get more money

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That’s probably it since I think Buckhead is one of the nicer areas.

My other thought is that responding to shoplifting calls is racist.


41 posted on 03/26/2018 3:07:33 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: UCANSEE2
The Atlanta Chief of Police said her officers will no longer respond to shoplifting calls at stores in Buckhead.

That's one way to lower crime statistics. Don't arrest anyone. Just like Obama had the Florida Schools do. Worked out well for the 17 dead kids, didn't it ?

 

Nailed it. What you wanna bet that 95 percent of the shoplifters were black?

So to reduce the workload, and clear up them pesky racist crime statistics - they just ignore the crime.

42 posted on 03/26/2018 3:09:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sign in front windows, We are Armed and will use it!


43 posted on 03/26/2018 3:13:42 PM PDT by mplc51
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To: Enlightened1

The Atlanta police chief needs to start rehearsing her speech about how there is “nothing that she can do” or how she’s “doing all she can” when crime skyrockets in the Atlanta area because she’s giving up on these so-called “nuisance” crimes. If there is one thing that the Giuliani Administration in NYC taught urban America, is that focusing on the small crimes stops the big crimes.


44 posted on 03/26/2018 3:13:52 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Enlightened1

Just build a holding cell in the middle of the mall.


45 posted on 03/26/2018 3:16:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Enlightened1

So, are these lazy ***holes going to change the law to make shoplifting no longer a crime?


46 posted on 03/26/2018 3:19:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: OldMissileer
I cringe every time I see these civilians pinning all those stars on their shoulders. They are military General wannabes.

And the ass hats refer to the citizens they work for as civilians.

47 posted on 03/26/2018 3:20:34 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: Enlightened1

“Erika Shields is the 24th Chief of the City of Atlanta Police Department, appointed in December 2016. She is an advocate for 21st Century Policing – with a focus on reducing crime while also strengthening trust and collaboration with our communities. Chief Shields has a tough mindset on crime, but a compassionate and ...” Started puking right there.
Translation; I’m a typical liberal marshmallow with the brain of a Pelosi and the talent of Hillary.


48 posted on 03/26/2018 3:20:41 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Wow, let’s just broadcast that it’s a free shoplifting zone.

Police are getting worthless.

Two years ago, my daughter’s home was broken into. She got home in time to see the robbers speed out the driveway and she followed their pickup truck to the robber’s home. She parked across the street and called the police. They told her that since it was a property only offense, they could not come and that she would have to file a claim with her insurance company. This was in Henderson, NV, outside of Las Vegas.

Why have police if they don’t do police work?
I really thought robbery needed to involve police, not just insurance companies.


49 posted on 03/26/2018 3:24:14 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: Enlightened1

“The chief puts the onus on the merchant to file the incident and, if necessary, spend the funds to hire an off-duty Atlanta or metro officer who can make the sure the culprit is made to pay for his crime.”

Why are they singling out Buckhead? Oh, yeah, it’s mostly made up of millionaires who apparently don’t deserve police protection even though they pay taxes out the wazoo.

I admittedly don’t know the law, but it seems like these merchants could file a class-action suit.


50 posted on 03/26/2018 3:35:13 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (truth will trump their lies)
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To: Feckless

Then they just lock your doors with a key you don’t have.


51 posted on 03/26/2018 3:35:35 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: Enlightened1

Just call in all shoplifting as “man with a gun”.

“Well, it looked like he had a gun. You know how that is.”


52 posted on 03/26/2018 3:38:14 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: Enlightened1

That’s one city I’ll never move to.


53 posted on 03/26/2018 3:39:22 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Enlightened1

Buckhead is the cash register for Atlanta taxes so this is beyond stupid. Many unincorporated areas of Georgia are becoming cities on their own, I recommend it for Buckhead.


54 posted on 03/26/2018 3:43:33 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: MPJackal

It’s simple. She’s telling the homies, to go on and steal from the White folks in Buckhead, because the Cops won’t respond.


55 posted on 03/26/2018 3:43:40 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: OldMissileer

Maybe it’s unfair but every time a city goes into the toilet by crime the face of the police department is a cop with eight stars and usually a woman (who looks like a lesbian). The mayors are usually black. I know it’s racis’ and stereotypical but true. When the police stop policing little things, the “Broken windows” Theory comes into play. I think policing needs to be revisited and what it means in our society. We are veering into anarchy in many parts of America as police are worthless and the right to self defense is not allowed.


56 posted on 03/26/2018 3:47:59 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ASA Vet
And the ass hats refer to the citizens they work for as civilians.

For a little while I worked around a bunch of Government employees with badges. The kind that also traveled around the world doing shifty things while wearing body armor and wearing all the tactical gear.

One day they were all talking about the "civilians" and I calmly mentioned they were also civilians. They all looked at me and I straight out told them they were not in the US Military and were civilian law enforcement and should remember such. The senior man look at me and told me I was right.

57 posted on 03/26/2018 3:49:30 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Enlightened1

Is this just like the broward county sheriffs office not responding to disruptive criminal students in their high schools?


58 posted on 03/26/2018 3:51:15 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Feckless

When business owners and taxpayers start to believe that they are getting neither return nor protection from the police getting very generous retirements and pensions, things will change. Government unions are a nemesis.

Citizens need the right to have direct control via referendum over the unelected bureaucrats who screw them. As others have said she never should have broadcast such policy, just as schools should not advertise themselves as no defense zones.


59 posted on 03/26/2018 3:58:44 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: Enlightened1

simple solution. private armed security.


60 posted on 03/26/2018 3:58:57 PM PDT by I got the rope
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