Posted on 08/24/2015 4:10:24 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
UW Director of Community Relations Everett Mitchell, speaking at a University of Wisconsin Madison panel dealing with “Best Policing Practices,” argued that police should stop responding to shoplifting and thefts at Wal-Mart and Target to reduce what he refers to as “over policing” of the community. Yes, he really believes that enforcing the law regarding property crimes against retailers is “over-policing.” Mitchell, an employee of an institution that exists to enlighten the young and impressionable, said that communities should be able to decide for themselves what laws should be enforced, and that the ultimate goal of law enforcement is not the actual enforcement of law, but community safety as defined by the community itself. If the community thinks declaring open season on the local Walmart—looting, essentially—is just fine, then the police shouldn’t arrest anyone for it. Theft from big box stores, he explained, is an example of a crime that police and the community may view differently.
How the owner of the stores that get robbed, the employees that will lose jobs when the store leaves to relocate someplace that doesn’t think theft is “safe,” and the families that will have no place to shop might feel about his plan was not discussed. Mitchell, you see, is an irresponsible idiot.
He was also formerly an assistant District Attorney in the Dane County District Attorney’s Office. He must have been great at that job.
Mitchell said,
“I just don’t think that they should be prosecuting cases or bringing up cases for people who steal from Wal-Mart. I just don’t think that, right? I don’t think Target or all them other places, them big box stores that have insurance. They should be using justification, the fact that people steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police practices, right?”
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“How did he ever get a law degree?”
The same way our Obamatollah got one-affirmative action! /s
Yet another affirmative-action, tenured idiot. The fool should be an elevator-operater or congressman.
Another “Black crimes shouldn’t matter” asshat...
Director at UW, Madison, of UW Community Relations declares that police should not prosecute shoplifting. (Madison insanity rears its head again.)
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
He ain’t got no damn John Deere lawn mover....he’s got illegal mexican aliens mowing his damn lawn.
I guess....I'm a racist!!
Kinda like Barrack Hussein Obama....
Imagine that.....
It’d be Walmart reparations: with Walmart forced to keep stores open in such neighborhoods, and the residents thereof free to go in and take whatever they want whenever they want it.
Somehow Walmart’s “insurance” (law-abiding Americans) will just pay for it all.
Can anyone explain to me how someone so allegedly learned can be so oblivious to the effects of such a system? How do people that stupid get prestigious well-paying jobs?
What did she think I had, an elephant?
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So since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again.
I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again.
I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.
Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's ass and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack - he was laughing so hard.
Wal-Mart won't let me shop there anymore.
Affirmative Action???
Ha ha!
No doubt a shoplifting fool himself/herself! *rolling eyes*
Translation “FREE EVERYTHING AT WALLMART”. Picture looter guy.
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