Posted on 04/12/2019 5:40:47 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
Dallas County's new district attorney announced his office will no longer prosecute "theft of necessary items" up to $750.
The announcement drew an immediate reaction from small business owners who are worried that word of the policy will encourage shoplifting.
While the Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot tried to clarify his new policy on Friday, some business owners are worried about what the DA's new policy will mean for them.
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I literally was in a car here in L.A. without ANY insurance NOR registration..
..and my idiot ‘friend’ didnt tell me until he was pulled over. The LAPD literally made us wait and then told us/him NOT to park in the streets or he will be towed. I connected the dots and they figured he didnt have a criminal record so why make a stupid report?
After that, I stopped hanging out with him.
I'm assuming $750 is per person/ per store. Imagine if you multiply that by 10 people or more doing a number of stores each day. Prices would go up and other stores would shut down and/or move.
It’s how they plan to compete with on-line retailers. That and being open 24/7. Companies like Walmart have realized that since they have people restocking their shelves in the off hours, adding a sales clerk or two helps pay the light bill and allows customers the freedom of 24 hour shopping. That and seriously cutting prices on virtually everything using their leverage on their suppliers. We buy nearly all of our gas at Costco. Here in CA and NV they are always $.30 to $.50 per gallon under the market for gasoline. Plus, unlike the majors, their prices move directly with the market instead of “we have to raise prices on the cheap gas in our tanks today so we have the money to pay for the more expensive product that’s coming,” but on the downside, they say “well the gas we have in our tanks cost more so we can’t lower prices until it’s gone!”
Ummm no... this is socialism at work. Wal-Mart will simply build in the price of the theft into the price that people with money pay for stuff. It’s a weird way for the working and taxpaying people to pay for more free stuff for those that won’t work.
All I can say to conservatives is : GET OUT OF BLUE CONTROLLED AREAS WHILE YOU STILL CAN !
If you are a white conservative and you get into a legal dispute in a blue area with this sort of “administration of justice”, you will lose regardless of the merits of your case.
If you are involved in a defensive shooting, you will be the one going to jail regardless of how justified the shooting was.
Read the writing on the wall and get out !
In Texas, Section 9 of the Texas Penal Code provides legal justifications for the use of force in a limited set of circumstances when a person has no duty to retreat. For example, a homeowner in his own home does not have a duty to retreat and may use deadly force to protect himself against an armed intruder. This would be the same for a business owner in his place of business and a truck driver in his own truck
From:
https://www.bhwlawfirm.com/deadly-force-self-defense-in-texas/
.pdf of the letter: https://www.dallascounty.org/Assets/uploads/docs/district-attorney/messages-from-da/Official-DACreuzotPoliciesLetter_April2019.pdf
The letter covers these topics:
First-Offense Marijuana
THC Possession
Trace Amount Drug Possession
Drug Possession Cases without Laboratory Reports
Criminal Trespass
Theft of Necessary Items less than $750
Driving While License Suspended
Misdemeanor Pre-Trial Diversion Expunctions
Probation
Bail
Magistration
Just because they DA won’t prosecute doesn’t mean it isn’t a crime. Arm up.
Democrats making life easier for themselves again.
We’ve been using that at our Shop-Rite, which is heavily used by residents of neighboring Newark NJ (since nobody is foolish enough to operate supermarkets there). Because of those visitors, the parking spots set aside for the pick-up service are often used by lazy sh!ts who won’t park a row further away. Otherwise, it works well and is cheap. They’ll even deliver, but I’m not that lazy...
Just more norms tossed to the wayside to lower the bar further for preferred minorities; another reason to avoid doing business anywhere near them.
At some point people will realize this is why they can’t have a local supermarket, receive food deliveries (too many stick-ups), get a taxi (too many stick-ups AND fare-beaters)...
Our Wal-Mart is constantly in the local police news because more and more of the mutants (it is situated between Newark and Jersey City, away from the residential part of my town) are getting arrested passing through self-checkout without scanning items. Before the self-checkout, they were being arrested for just trying to walk out with shopping carts loaded with “stuff”.
Economies collapse when property laws aren’t upheld; this is how “food deserts” were originally created.
Again, thank you. It looks like it’s open season on business owners in Dallas. Just another example of leftist stupidity.
And yet, they whine about “food deserts.” No amount of tax abatement would convince me to open a business in their midst.
“ I have heard that in Jamaica, you go to the store, state what you want to the clerk behind the bullet-proof counter (just like a bank), hand him your money and get what you requested from the bullet proof carousel. Maybe we’ll start doing it that way here as well.”
Catalog showrooms such as Best Products and Service Merchandise were popular in the US during the 1980’s. The store had one of each item it sold on display in the showroom. You wrote the stock numbers of the items you wished to purchase on a slip of paper and then paid for them. Then you walked to the pickup area where the items were waiting.
Super Walmart’s and the big box category killer stores (Best Buy, Toys R Us, Bed Bath and Beyond), which carried larger assortments of key items, killed the catalog retailers in the 1990’s. Now online retailing, with even larger selections and home delivery, are hurting Walmart and the big box category killers.
The ultimate consequence of the $750 no prosecute law will be even fewer grocery, drug and convenience stores in poor urban neighborhoods. The few that remain will charge higher prices to cover shoplifting costs. Social justice activists will complain about food deserts, high prices and lack of choices in the inner city. Companies will be accused of racism for closing money losing stores. City and state governments will offer big incentives for stores to open in the urban center. Social warriors will complain capitalism doesn’t work. Academics will receive government grants to do studies to prove the point. The cries for socialism will get louder. The downward spiral will continue.
I think the district attorney should be hung! Just because it’s “necessary”!
Thanks for the info. Nice to know equal justice will apply and the peons will not be punished for pilfering the police
And this is why there will be nothing but bodegas — some Thai dude with an over - under beneath the register — in high-crime Dallas areas in a year.
That last is one reason why taxis are replaced by Uber, Lyft and the like. There’s no cash and a LOT of trackable information required for someone to summon one.
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