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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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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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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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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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.

They'll only do this to the point where it costs them sales. The dirty little secret is that the markup on this stuff is YUUUUUUgggggeeeee. The profit difference between having to replace some merchandise vs not selling some merchandise because customers are put off by having to jump through security hoops is likely pretty high. They stores would probably deal with the former rather than latter.

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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?

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Is nothing sacred?

Fox Christmas tree burned. Arson

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fox...ire-suspect-arrested

Sadly, I think we know that answer to that question.

Of course not politically motivated according to police statement (Per Newsweek). All-American Tree, red white, & blue, Fox- surely nothing political

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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

I can't make up my mind. Go to the restaurant with my CCW and then write a note on the receipt telling them I was carrying.

Or go to the hood in Richmond and give a bunch of hommies a $100 to go into town and encourage them to rob the place.

Now, these "locust swarm" thefts are the fault of the Business, not the actual thieves... Because the business aren't doing their part to stop this stuff...

So, so out of touch with reality!

https://www.foxbusiness.com/ec...rs-smash-grab-thefts



Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed retailers for not making safety a priority amid a string of smash-and-grab thefts at retail stores in recent months.

"We still have retailers that won't institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they've got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags. These purses can be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units," Lightfoot said Monday.

Rob Karr, the president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, said Chicago businesses need the "fingerprinting among leadership to stop."

"The comments that retailers need to do more are sadly misinformed. I think it ignores the fact that retailers spent hundreds of millions of dollars every year on security… We’re not going to put the entire store behind glass cases or under lock and key. Retail doesn’t work that way," Karr told FOX Business.

"We have a fine line to walk. I don’t think the mayor wants a line of armed personnel in every store."

Groups of looters in masks have stormed stores in orchestrated plots to steal thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in downtown Chicago and the city’s suburbs.

More than a dozen people raided ​​a Louis Vuitton store at the Oakbrook Center west of Chicago last month, making off with $120,000 of luxury goods before fleeing in three separate cars, one of which was stolen.

The Chicago Police Department sent an alert to businesses in northern Chicago on Black Friday after seven smash-and-grab thefts took place over the course of about three weeks. It warned of offenders forcefully entering "through a front or side door by breaking the door glass with a pry tool" then stealing property.

Last Thursday, nine people stormed a store along Michigan Avenue, resulting in the arrest of just one offender, a 16-year-old boy who was charged with one felony count of retail theft.


The task force executed search warrants on Friday at eight storage units and recovered millions of dollars worth of apparel, beauty products, electronics and other merchandise.

"Organized retail theft is about more than lost revenue and stolen products," Raoul said Friday. "Frequently, the criminal enterprises behind these crimes are connected to other crimes, such as the drug trade and human trafficking. I am committed to identifying the perpetrators behind this and other organized retail crimes in Illinois."

Karr said the retail thefts not only damage the viability of businesses but also reduce tax revenue for the government and make shoppers fearful during the holiday season.

"Criminals take advantage of the weakest links, and right now Chicago looks like the weakest link, because the very leadership that ought to be addressing this together with us, is fighting with each other over who’s to blame," he said.

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

Bullshit & nice defeatist attitude. My advice - get out of Boston.

Beetlejuice says that now....her story will change as soon as one of these yutes gets their teeth knocked out for swinging on an off duty CPD officer.

Chicago is the weakest link for one reason a progressive mayor and DA