Posted on 03/26/2018 2:21:38 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Atlanta Chief of Police said her officers will no longer respond to shoplifting calls at stores in Buckhead.
Erika Shields said staff shortages, in excess of 300 officers, has forced her to reevaluate how to deploy officers. In the affluent section north of downtown, Shields said, the APD Zone Two officers frequently get calls from merchants to do a report on a shoplifter who has been caught by store security. After filling out the paperwork, the officer then must arrange a transport to the Atlanta City Jail in downtown.
All that can take up to an hour and a half to complete. The chief believes that time can be better spent by having those officers handle serious crimes, from burglaries to carjackings.
Shields said if a shoplifting takes place, the larceny can still be reported and will be counted in the APD stats. 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.
A Buckhead resident and community leader, Roslyn Smith, is "disappointed" the city is in the position where staff shortages is leaving the chief with such a choice.
"Personally, I am not going to feel comfortable going to shop," Smith said.
As for filling the gap in manpower, Chief Shields said, a pay study is being prepared that she will present to Mayor Keisha Bottoms in the hopes of making her officers among the highest salaried law enforcement in the area.
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Makes perfect sense for them to stop dealing with shoplifters. There's no profit in any of that.
you said it better than I did. LOL.
azz backwards management. chief acknowledges frequent shoplifters caught instead of refusing to arrest, they should have announced a task force with the local DA to prosecute all shoplifters to the fullest extent of the law... print their mugshots in the local paper and see what happens..also cooperate with merchants to publicize the task force in their windows...isn’t affirmative action great? did the chief even confer with a real cop or prosecutor or merchants about her idiotic plan?
I wonder if she’d respond to a call of a shoplifter bleeding out on the street in front of the victim store?
"Let dem touch dem things!"
Celine Dion
One white male in that photo. Tells you everything you need to know.
When areas lose their WASP culture (in this case, property rights), then it is all over. Years ago Somalia had no functioning government; when you landed at the airport there was nobody to even stamp your passport.
Nowadays savvy people understand this, and they don’t want to open businesses in areas where the welfare folk will branch out years down the road. Some of these owners probably opened their businesses when the area was “healthier”, and now are riding out their last few years ‘til retirement without police protection.
So - stores can report being robbed but no action will be taken - maybe stores ought to put in small, soundproofed and easily cleaned, “You shounn’t have done that” rooms and start busting some kneecaps....
It is now simply an ‘underfunded purchase’
I wonder if anyone’s published a study on the difference in crime stats between male/female police chiefs?
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