Posted on 04/29/2021 3:51:26 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A Miami Police officer has been relieved of duty while the department investigates his rough arrest of a homeless man who was suspected of stealing chicken at a Publix that was caught on camera, officials said Wednesday.
The incident happened the evening of April 16 at the Publix at 1776 Biscayne Boulevard.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcmiami.com ...
The officer, who the report said was working an extra duty job at the store, was seen in a brief video posted on social media shoving Barbor and wrestling him to the ground before punching him multiple times in the head and putting handcuffs on him...
Rodney Jacobs, the assistant director of Miami's civilian investigative panel that looks into cases of police misconduct, said the incident was very concerning.
"We really need to start thinking about these things as health care issues," Jacobs said. "The first thing we need to think about it is, why is that a homeless person is coming into contact with a police officer for eating deli meat?"
Local Miami media is trying to perform “law enforcement by ‘reporters’ who have ZERO experience dealing with criminals.
Because he stole it. Next question.
Can Rodney Jacobs really be that stupid?
So... A hungry homeless man steals a $5 chicken. Worthy of a physical altercation which may now cause a huge lawsuit the tax payers will have to cover. The man is arrested and will be convicted so he will spend time in jail at the tune of a thousand dollars a day that the taxpayers will also pay for.
But all is not lost because the judge will order a man who has no money to pay $5 restitution for a chicken and a couple hundred dollars court costs that he can’t pay so he will go back to jail again at the tune of a thousand dollars a day cost to the taxpayer.
Yep... Intelligent and righteous take down, That will teach him not to steal. In the mean time the taxpayers could have bought a lot of chickens for the residuals this righteous decision will cost them. Should have either just shot him or paid for the chicken for him.
Because the criminal was not the real loser in this event.
Well, Mr. Jacobs, could it be because the homeless man was stealing from the store?
It would be telling to determine if said homeless man had access to sustainment services provided by the local town.
I bet he did.
>>So... A hungry homeless man steals a $5 chicken.
So in your world, being hungry gives you carte-blanche to steal? How about being cold, OK to break into houses to get warm? does being horny give you a right to rape?
Pretty warped logic, but then again you will fit right in with your democrat friends.
So, in your cost-benefit analysis, we should declare open season on private businesses by most likely drug-addled and mentally ill individuals and let them run wild in the streets?
In my town, we have many of them. If this is allowed, the problem will continue to fester until it bursts open, just like an unlanced boil.
Many of these people have been doing this for *years* with no incentive to get on their own two feet.
Because the county services and benefits are so good, we get the problems imported from the big city 1/2 hour up the road.
And I don’t buy your $1,000/day cost estimate per person in incarceration either.
Attention Police. DO NOT Arrest anyone darker than Johnny or Edgar Winter. It’s not worth your job or your life. Your Supervisors, Administrators, Mayors, and Governors will throw you under the bus. They will try to appease the Mobs of Feral Animals and you will be offered up as a sacrifice. If Johnny or Edgar Resist Arrest let them go! Smile and wave Goodbye. Don’t worry about the innocent civilian who might be robbed, raped, or murdered. They would be with the mob calling for your
head if you used force. Retire if you can. Quit if you can. Ride around with Radio Off and Blinders on if you have to. Those of us who support you can defend ourselves and what is ours. The Feral Animals will thin out the weak and Snowflakes eventually.
Be Safe Brothers.
We are in a new era where the police will no longer respond.
We are now on our own kiddos.
Believe me, once the Left gets control of everything, this will all stop.
They are just in the process of breaking everything so they can apply the “fix”.
I am just saying that for a $5 crime it is illogical to make the taxpayers in the end fit the excessive bill. And you might want to do some homework on how much it costs the taxpayers to incarcerate a prisoner on average. Not true overhead costs, the amount of taxpayers dollars appropriated per prisoner.
Had it been me, I would have paid for the Chicken and then banned him from the store. And if he came back and did it again then deal more harshly with him. But I for sure would not have taken a risk of getting the store, myself, and maybe my dept sued for excessive force over a $5 chicken... Let alone make the taxpayers pay so much for his petty crime.
That is ignorant as hell... A new car maybe but not a $5 chicken... lol
Where I live they have food banks, many of them for the poor folks to get some food.
My point to you is that his behavior is coddled, or even encouraged by not sanctioning him.
I will look into county incarceration funding, but i don’t think it to be an accurate calculation to include overhead costs (administrative costs, etc.).
It will be instructive to look into this.
“calculation to include overhead costs (administrative costs, etc.)”
These are also important and a cost because they will be the same or close whether you have 1000 prisoners or a 3000 prisoners.
Not coddled, but it is a petty crime. What is next? License to shoot and kill for a $5 chicken? At some point common sense needs to come into play. I have been in business all my life, and if an employee did something like this over a $5 chicken I would fire them just for causing my insurance rate to go up alone.
But I would not have cried about losing $5 if it prevented even more expensive possible liabilities. The true risk doesn’t fit the complaint. Banning from the store and having him arrested if he comes back is just much more practical and cheaper for the innocent parties who will in the end actually have to pay for it all. Losing 5$ to prevent the possible loss of thousands and thousands in liability is just smarter business.
The category of homeless often includes criminals and crazy people, some of them quite dangerous. Arresting them when they misbehave is a way of taking them out of circulation. When that is not done, they become emboldened and become a greater risk to the public.
“We really need to start thinking about these things as health care issues,” Jacobs said. “The first thing we need to think about it is, why is that a homeless person is coming into contact with a police officer for eating deli meat?”
And if you don’t prosecute it, you start getting dozens, then hundreds, and it spreads from chickens to all manner of product (which it already has been).
It’s silly to measure the direct costs as if it is unrelated to anything else, against the indirect costs only on another side.
I’ve actually seen an event like this...one block from a soup kitchen.
Your calculation is one-sided.
What I witnessed was a very unhygienic man taking some grapes from a salad bar. The grapes cost a couple of pennies, but the man - who had access to food at a soup kitchen - took them by fishing them out of a fruit cocktail with his hand, and dribbling across other food.
Apparently that was the third time that day the store had to break down their salad bar kiosk and throw out all of the potentially contaminated foods.
Meanwhile, what are all of the other shoplifting and breakage costs in the store?
if an employee did something like this over a $5 chicken I would fire them just for causing my insurance rate to go up alone.
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