Really nothing to add.

^ At 3:46 he mentions the increasingly heinous crimes committed by juveniles. The juvenile justice system in this country was designed for the kid who stole hubcaps off of cars or a loaf of bread from the grocery store because his siblings were hungry, not this level of viciousness. As Massad Ayoob has said, "The younger serpent has the stronger venom."

Here recently, somebody shoplifted from a Walmart and was not only arrested, but charged with burglary. (Burglary need not involve breaking in, just entering with intent to steal.) A few weeks ago I personally witnessed an actual JCPD officer come to take a report of a stolen cell phone. You won't see that in Memphis, probably not in any big city, for that matter.

The people pulling the strings and throwing money at disrupting law and order want one thing. An armed response by law abiding citizens fed up with criminal activity. Then they'll have the green light they've been hoping for to attack our right to bear arms.

Look what they did to Kyle Rittenhouse. 4 separate felons tried to seriously injure or kill him, and every step of the way he was vilified as a murderer, a killer, a white supremacist with a scary black gun. And that was a crystal clear case of lawful self defense on camera from multiple angles. As determined by a jury of his peers. They openly praised the felons as victims and hero's. Any street thug that gets gunned down with an armload of Louis Vitton will be celebrated as a martyr, and the shooter called a racist white supremacist killer.

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Any street thug that gets gunned down with an armload of Louis Vitton will be celebrated as a martyr, and the shooter called a racist white
supremacist killer.

Let 'em try. The yoyos will certainly pitch that line of BS, but I seriously don't think anyone's buying it anymore. Even municipalities who couldn't wait to defund their police are re-funding them with both hands.

A majority of the Company's that are being robbed are large corporations. Most chose years ago not to address crime taking place in there stores.
Don't get involved were the instructions to store employees and there own security.I used to deliver and pick-up large amounts of jewellery from the largest jewelry stores on Michigan ave. Most did not allow there armed security guards to actually load there weapons even though they said they did load them despite Company policy. They would guard me on the way out to the Armored truck, I appreciated the effort even though I always questioned the effectiveness of the help.
The public is NOT reasonable for guarding businesses. Businesses need to adopt aggressive measures to protect there business, employees, and customers.
Most large businesses have been supporting the BLM/ANTIFA/WOKE movement.
I now chuckle when watching the news, when I see all the white, WOKE citizens complaining about the crime in there neighborhoods. These are the same people that were and are supporting all the movements that now pray on them. The worse part is they can't seem to actually call out who is attacking them because they have politically boxed themselves into a corner.

I spent almost 30 years picking up huge amounts of money in the worse parts of Chicago. The main observation I made was that the population in those neighborhoods were getting worse and worse, year after year.
I worked afternoon and nights.I would drive home usually around 1am through the "Wild West" side of Chicago. Little kids running around all night were the norm. They reminded me of Feral animals, I always wondered when they would figure out that they did not have to stay in the hood anymore to commit crime.That time has arrived.
I don't feel sorry for there victims or any of them. They all helped in creating the mess we have now.
Let them all sit in it till they have to scream that its there fault things have gotten so out of control, otherwise the problem will never get better.

If they businesses wanted to stop this, they would/could.

More on current crime:

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
If they businesses wanted to stop this, they would/could.

It's probably worth 15-20k for larger companies to not do anything. Between legal fees and cancel culture they'd risk losing a lot more if armed security shot some. These cities could stop this if they wanted to.

Reparations will come one way or another, the Dindu free stuff crowd will take what they want.

I think if I owned or operated one of these high end stores selling expensive stuff, I would harden the damn building to the point it would take a Cat D9 to damage it. Protect the inventory, the building itself. the employees and customers, everybody. But that would cost money, wouldn't it?

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I think if I owned or operated one of these high end stores selling expensive stuff, I would harden the damn building to the point it would take a Cat D9 to damage it. Protect the inventory, the building itself. the employees and customers, everybody. But that would cost money, wouldn't it?

Put a few heads on pikes (figuratively speaking) and this shit ends. Hire some ex-military folks to bust heads when they force entry and resolve to steal will evaporate. Also, make looting a shooting offense. If people thought they might die for stealing, there'd be a lot less of it.

Guards with dogs. Liability waiver to enter. Still be sued into oblivion. Only choice is Service Merchandise model where everything is secured until purchase

Members only stores. Problem solved.

Back in the mid 90s, was in London on business and had a little time to walk around. Was quite interested in Panerai watches and thought it might be fun to look in the shops on High Street...

Just about every single shop with items like watches or jewelry had very large and menacing looking fellows right at the door. It was more than enough to keep me from entering as i was not likely to buy anything and was happy to just window shop, but it made an impression not forgotten.

Once again, a business thinks it's ok to insult police officers who come to them offering their business but, can't get over the role of the job, the uniform, let alone their presence because *gasp* GUNS

California Commies: Only trained police officers should be able to have guns!

Also California Commies: WE ARE UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND POLICE OFFICERS WITH GUNS!

In my opinion, the officers that were refused service should have rousted the management and patrons for any number of violations there were likely to be occurring - drug possession, disorderly conduct, failure to comply with lawful orders, resisting arrest, etc. I can't imagine being so stupid to say officers armed with a duty weapon are somehow a danger. Next time the restaurant calls 911, the police should say sorry we are uncomfortable responding to calls to your establishment.

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Once again, a business thinks it's ok to insult police officers who come to them offering their business but, can't get over the role of the job, the uniform, let alone their presence because *gasp* GUNS

What would happen if they had a customer who refused to pay? Since they don’t want police officers in the restaurant.

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Originally posted by bigguy:

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Once again, a business thinks it's ok to insult police officers who come to them offering their business but, can't get over the role of the job, the uniform, let alone their presence because *gasp* GUNS

What would happen if they had a customer who refused to pay? Since they don’t want police officers in the restaurant.

Nothing. The restaurant owners would just say it is part of life in the city. This is the new ethos for wacko lefties.

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Originally posted by corsair:

Once again, a business thinks it's ok to insult police officers who come to them offering their business but, can't get over the role of the job, the uniform, let alone their presence because *gasp* GUNS

I wonder if Alec Baldwin is a customer of that restaurant.

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Originally posted by JohnCourage:
Nothing. The restaurant owners would just say it is part of life in the city. This is the new ethos for wacko lefties.

Its remarkable and pathetic, that the Left has a hard time connecting the dots between their advocacy to defund police, rise in both violent crime and theft and the general coarseness of diolgoue and interaction with each other.
They politically boxed themselves into a corner and their ego prevents them to acknowledge that they didn't think things through. So, they're left with stewing in the filth of their own making.