LAPD Advises City Residents to ‘Cooperate and Comply’ with Robbers

breitbart ^ | 10 Nov 2021 | AWR HAWKINS

[MarvinStinson]

The Los Angeles Police Department tweeted a release advising city residents to “cooperate and comply” when being robbed.

The release begins:

Due to an increase in violent street robberies, Robbery-Homicide Division has become aware of an ongoing crime trend of follow-home robberies. Suspects have been locating victims in Los Angeles, following them, and then committing the robberies as the victim arrives home or at their business. … These crimes have occurred throughout the City of Los Angles as well as neighboring cities. Different suspects have been identified and arrested for these types of crimes.

LAPD uses the release to outline seven points conveying the department’s advice for what city residents ought to do in response to the robberies.

Point five on the release says, “If you are being robbed, do not resist the robbery suspects; cooperate and comply with their demands. Be a good witness.”

California is one of the most stringently gun-controlled states in the Union. The state has had universal background checks and an “assault weapons” ban since the 1990s.

LAPD LAPD vehicle (LADOT/Flickr)

Moreover, the state limits the number of guns law-abiding citizens can buy each month, requires law-abiding citizens to show “good cause” in order to be approved for a concealed carry permit, bans campus carry for self-defense, bans K-12 teachers from having guns for classroom defense, has a ten-day waiting period on gun purchases, has gun registration requirements for law-abiding citizens, has a red flag law, and the state also has a ban on “high-capacity” magazines (which is currently being litigated).

Additionally, California has ammunition controls which include background checks for ammunition purchases and said purchases to in-state ammunition dealers who are approved by the state.

In spite of all the gun and ammunition controls, Los Angeles is seeing “an increase in violent street robberies.”

[BatGuano]

“I will not comply.”

Well, you could rehearse this line...

“Yes sir, here is my watch, my wallet and my GUN!”
Squeeze off 4 0r 5 founds to the center mass of the robber’s body. Finish with a shot to the forehead.

Now, that is a good victim. If criminals get the idea that a robbery might end their life, they might get an honest job like politics where they can cheat, and steal with abandon!

[BatGuano]

Rounds, not “founds!” Sorry.

[torqemada]

If the LAPD wants a return to Wild West lawlessness, then citizens have no choice except to bear arms in their defense. Case closed.

[Billthedrill]

What we have here is a crime-topia developing on the Kali coast - in San Francisco the local rag is asking if residents should "tolerate" burglaries. "It's just property" moved quickly and predictably to armed robbery and murder just as everybody sane knew it would. It isn't so much that law enforcement has broken down under the strain, it's been deliberately broken from the top down. To be even clearer, it's this way because the political class wants it to be this way; this is the end state of "social justice" and anyone pretending otherwise is either stupid or profiting by it.