The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more.
The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more.
Stupid suburban white people, maybe?
There are people that think if you walk around downtown Brooklyn you’ll be double mugged. People of the land. Common clay of the new West.
I heard two people yesterday at work saying they won’t arrest you if you have less than 1200 dollars worth of stuff. They’ll just follow you around until you get to that much. People are idiots that believe the dumbest things. Anyone who thinks they are going to walk out of Walmart with a cart with of $500 worth of shit and they aren’t going to call the police and get arrested if they aren’t gone before the police (who are normally in the parking lot already here) get there is an idiot.
The prison system makes money off those people going to jail. The largest private prison company is from here. “But the News said!”
$1200 is when it becomes a felony (at least where you are it seems). It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some stores’ loss prevention didn’t physically stop a person until they know they’ve hit that threshold. Most stores won’t stop people at all for liability reasons, so maybe they start taking it more seriously when it hits the felony threshold.
Maybe local police don’t want them to call them every time there’s a misdemeanor level shoplifting, because who fucking cares.
Prison and jail are two different things. If it’s about private prisons making money, then it would make sense to go for felonies over misdemeanors. You generally don’t go to prison for misdemeanor shoplifting so nobody is making money in that case.
$1000 is a felony here. And less than that is up to a year in jail and $2500 fine.
No they aren’t going to physically stop you, they are going to call the police, and report your tags and report your face.
Yes jail and prison are different. People wind up on probation for stealing less than $50 worth of things. Unless everyone is stealing from the place all the time, it is always worth it on their end to report stupid shit like that. Keeps police around their parking lot, which cuts down on more crime. They aren’t going to report everything, but you’re not taking a 65" TV out the front door which is only about $400-500 dollars without getting a call
I just said it wouldn’t surprise me if they did… Aside from that, I was just arguing that the whole, “they’re going after the small ones too so prisons can make more money” just doesn’t make sense.
I don’t know about the US, but in Spain if you steal less than 400€ it’s not considered a felony, just a lesser crime, and they let you go with a slap on the wrist. Not saying that cops are going to follow you around until you steal more though lol.
As a suburban white person, fuck a chain. If you see someone stealing from one of the big guys, no you fucking didn’t.
But I know I ain’t the only guy in the burbs. And I know my neighborhood ain’t the same as the ones 30-40 miles north. I can absolutely imagine those folks would be terrified if they found out that I didn’t give a shit about folks stealing from Walmart or Kroger.