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Downtown Seattle Target barely surviving as shoplifting ravages store [“about every 10 minutes” - "In Seattle, they won’t get arrested, booked, or charged for most theft"]
KTTH ^ | January 24, 2022 | JASON RANTZ

Posted on 01/27/2022 6:31:41 AM PST by grundle

The Target department store in downtown Seattle is being absolutely ravaged by shoplifters, with one staff member telling me theft happens “about every 10 minutes.” He wasn’t kidding.

On a recent trip to the store on 2nd Avenue and Pike Street, I saw staff confront two separate shoplifters within 12 minutes of one another. It’s so bad that it’s not just the Biden administration’s supply chain crisis creating the empty shelves. And it’s so dangerous that customers can now only buy some products online as they’ll likely get mugged on the way out of the store.

Homeless men and women flood the Target and steal what they can. In Seattle, they won’t get arrested, booked, or charged for most theft.

“For the safety of our guests the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles are only available for purchase on Target.com and Target App via Order Pickup and Drive Up,” the sign reads.

(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; crime; dystopia; kingcounty; retail; seathell; seattle; shoplifting; target; theft; tracycastrogill; washington
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To: Bon of Babble

The city council, mayor and DAs say it’s due to “poor sales” but the real reason is unrestrained shoplifting.

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All elites who don’t live near crime infected areas and never step foot in a Target store.


61 posted on 01/27/2022 7:19:30 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Wilderness Conservative

LOL!

We see the crime as a blight on society. Liberals see it as a form of equality. It really doesn’t bother them to read about it.

Unfortunately national taxpayers subsidize these blue cities through federal grants, etc.


62 posted on 01/27/2022 7:23:03 AM PST by Starboard
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To: grundle

but keep voting RAT though


63 posted on 01/27/2022 7:23:55 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: grundle

F every liberal shxthole... They get exactly what they vote and stand for.


64 posted on 01/27/2022 7:25:53 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: grundle

Cities ran better when there was a strong Mafia that for a fee provided security to businesses.


65 posted on 01/27/2022 7:28:47 AM PST by allendale
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To: Bon of Babble
The city council, mayor and DAs say it’s due to “poor sales”

It’s correct in the sense that Target isn’t “selling” items that are stolen.

66 posted on 01/27/2022 7:29:35 AM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: brownsfan

IF Target were the last store in my shopping circle, I would widen the circle.


67 posted on 01/27/2022 7:39:50 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Bon of Babble

In a way-—it is “poor sales”..

Shoplifters do not PAY, so there is NO SALE TO RECORD on the books.


68 posted on 01/27/2022 7:43:18 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: grundle

Ann Davison is supposed to be a law and order DA recently elected so hopefully she will start to crack down.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/elections/ann-davison-leads-nicole-thomas-kennedy-in-bid-for-seattle-city-attorney/281-0946588f-99a1-4a2b-8128-197d905d361d


69 posted on 01/27/2022 7:45:40 AM PST by Piers
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To: grundle

Victor Davis Hanson: Third-Worldizing America
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, op-ed via Townhall.com,

It’s called Third Worldization! It’s the utter breakdown of the law, and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.

Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization. In a recent online exchange, YouTuber, Casey Neistat vented his anger after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd world s***hole of a city.”

The predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich, who master ignoring – and navigating around – the misery of others in their midst. In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.

Such impoverishment pales in comparison to the encampments of present-day Seattle, Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, or San Francisco. Tens of thousands live on sidewalks and in open view use them to defecate, urinate, inject drugs, and dispose of refuse.

Violent crime is soaring in America. Two things are different about America’s new criminality.

• One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest.

• • Second, the Left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system.

So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”

Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not.

The above statements excerpted from: Victor Davis Hanson’s: “Third-Worldizing America
Nation & State” ^ | 12-4-2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/12/04/victor-davis-hanson-third-worldizing-america/

Fox News: California city/Walnut Creek boosts security budget by $2 million after ‘criminal mob’ ransacks after Nordstrom’s @ Walnut Creek was rocked by a smash-and-grab mob last month!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-walnut-creek-security-police-2-million
It’s the leniency of politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom/Gruesome which is ultimately responsible for the descent into barbarism and this organized looting/piracy with masses of looters.

This organized massed looting is similar to a problem our forefathers had at one time. It was called piracy. They shot or hung pirates and then sank their ships with the pirates on board.

That worked for about 3+ centuries until George SoreA$$’s Elites’ took over our blue states, cities, mayors, local and state attorney generals, governors and often, the local police chiefs.

This has allowed George SoreA$$’s elites and his well funded BLMers to have free reign over many blue cities and states and now, the plundering of the Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek.

Forget It, Jakes/Janes! Relax! It’s Now, Not Even Your City/Town/County nor State, any more!

George SoreA$$’s elites control everything now from your schools to the stores where you send your kids and try to buy things.

Even, If you didn’t vote for this, it doesn’t matter!

Your votes were probably not counted nor have been counted for decades, if ever!


70 posted on 01/27/2022 7:46:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie. Everything the State has, was stolen!”)
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To: grundle

I’m sure the democrat leaders of the state are on top of the problem.

/s


71 posted on 01/27/2022 7:47:14 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: grundle

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10447987/Prolific-shoplifter-steals-70inch-TV-22nd-Target-theft-released-judge.html


72 posted on 01/27/2022 7:47:30 AM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: ridesthemiles

Normal bookkeeping entries:

A. Inventory increase==Debit
Cash paid out= Credit

B. Deposit sales income to bank account= Debit
Reduction in Inventory= Credit

SHOPLIFTING entries:

A remains the same

B becomes :

Shoplifting Expense===Debit
Inventory Reduction==Credit


73 posted on 01/27/2022 7:47:55 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: fwdude; ImJustAnotherOkie
 
 
Not only that, it's company policy not to prosecute thieves. They do their part in helping to spread the lawlessness.
 
 

74 posted on 01/27/2022 7:49:55 AM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: grundle

A normal sensible businessman would shut every one of those stores down that has a continuing problem like this and move those stores to small communities.

But, there are very few normal businessmen and women these days. All they work for is to go into the corporate meetings and have their heads patted and told how well they are doing.


75 posted on 01/27/2022 7:55:33 AM PST by crz
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To: grundle

Blue city..blue state...blue company..don’t care.


76 posted on 01/27/2022 7:58:47 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Bogey78O

If you’re white you’ll get arrested. Only certified members of Democrat pity-party victim groups get a pass.


77 posted on 01/27/2022 8:08:09 AM PST by GOPJ (Ukraine's thugs paid off Biden's family BUT THEY DIDN'T PAY OFF OUR FAMILIES - No War. No way... )
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To: Starboard

You’re right.

Franklin county (FL) is pretty rural and much of the county consists of state forests. Our Sheriff has closed several drug houses recently in our county and we have some problems with theft.

But violent crime seem to be nearly absent.


78 posted on 01/27/2022 8:16:15 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: joshua c
If the thugs went to city hall and raided government offices maybe these stupid democrats would get a clue. Is the answer to 'start a rumor' city employees keep large amounts of cash at City Hall - and since they're brain-dead democrats they don't have guns or any way to protect themselves?
79 posted on 01/27/2022 8:19:56 AM PST by GOPJ (Ukraine's thugs paid off Biden's family BUT THEY DIDN'T PAY OFF OUR FAMILIES - No War. No way... )
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To: GOPJ

Why in the hell don’t these stores just close every damn store in Seattle, let them just starve in these cities!!


80 posted on 01/27/2022 8:24:23 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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