Posted on 09/01/2015 10:02:09 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has suggested that police stop making arrests for shoplifting at “large” stores. They have insurance, lots of money, so let’s think “safety first” and let the thieves do their thing!!!
The gentleman responsible for this remarkable flash of genius is UW-Madison Director of Community Relations, Everett Mitchell. “I don’t think [with] 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?”
Uh, yes. What he said.
Unwilling to be silent after having made a complete ass of himself, Mitchell decided to keep digging with the extraordinary statement that “…community police shouldn’t prioritize enforcing the law, but instead should focus on achieving “safety” as it is defined by a local community, even if that definition includes allowing some stores to be robbed with impunity.”
So people should apparently be permitted to steal anything they can comfortably carry? Would Community Relations Director Mitchell demand hand trucks be provided to the more productive or aggressive thieves in order to avert possible back injury? Safety first, after all.
And it should be the local community that decides how and where police should “prioritize enforcing the law.” Wanna bet the local Cadillac and Lincoln dealers will be assigned a very low policing priority!
Mitchell’s ideas were made public at...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
In the words of Mayor Bitch of Baltimore:
Give them space to steal.
Well. I guess I’m okay with that if the store owners can just shoot the offenders right then and there. Much less trouble to deal with and all that. :0)
Is there a picture of Everett Mitchel? If so could someone post it?
What a genius...and we could do the same thing for large banks!
Good idea on his part!
Now wait. Does he mean that Whites should be set free too? I doubt it.
Leftists want the underclass to waltz right in and take what is ‘rightfully’ theirs.
Gee, shall we guess the ethnicity of Mr Mitchell?
More reparations propaganda from one who will benefit. Cut off this guy’s affirmative action.
” UW-Madison Director of Community Relations, Everett Mitchell. “I don’t think [with] 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?”
Ebonics is alive and well in Wisconsin, apparently, and this toord probably gets paid over $200K/year to ‘communicate’.
Wow, quite the community relations fellow. He can't even use proper grammar to positively represent the indoctrination center for which he works.
Color me shocked...
In the words of Jeb Bush - “It’s an act of love.”
Obviously a giant among public speakers...
The Walgreens near me gets hit on a regular basis. The shoplifters are caught. The police are called. The shoplifters are never charged. Walgreens just tells them never to come back. I don’t know how they would enforce that.
And from a University no less.
I think it was Albert Einstein or one the the popular geniuses who said: “Yhere are only two things that approach infinity: one is the Universe, and the other is the stupidity of some American people. But I’m not 100% sure about the Universe.”.
Get the point, Mr. Mitchell?
How about people who shoplift from the Student Union or the University Book Store? Should they not be prosecuted either? Because if they aren’t then that would really cut student costs.
My son worked for Gap, and they were not allowed to stop shoplifters.
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