My Father did this after 3 break-ins at our pharmacy. He sat in a chair in the dark and waited night after night, thankfully, I finally convinced him to get a taser instead of taking his gun. In the end, after a night there was an attempted break-in when he was not there, the police set up a trap the following night and got the would be burglar. Guess what? No conviction... Probation, no jail time, and no repayment of damages to our business. And this is going on with the police station in the same building literally 3 doors down, less than 25 yards away, from our business. Drugs were the reason, and addiction. But can you imagine the idiocy?
“My Father did this after 3 break-ins at our pharmacy. He sat in a chair in the dark and waited night after night, thankfully, I finally convinced him to get a taser instead of taking his gun. In the end, after a night there was an attempted break-in when he was not there, the police set up a trap the following night and got the would be burglar. Guess what? No conviction... Probation, no jail time, and no repayment of damages to our business. And this is going on with the police station in the same building literally 3 doors down, less than 25 yards away, from our business. Drugs were the reason, and addiction. But can you imagine the idiocy?”
Years ago I had my medical offices broken into twice within a month. Unbelievably they caught the guy(a druggie/alcoholic) who happened to drop a copy of his probation report( yes, you read it correctly) outside my office with the FIRST break-in. This was his third offense and he stole Rx pads and the local Cleveland DA said mandatory jail time if I was willing to testify. I was very willing to testify. Six months after trial was supposed to start, no call from DA. I call him, he is too busy and his secretary says he got PROBATION. Tried to call the DA back and never got a response.
About one year later watching TV about a horrible story where an elderly lady coming out of a grocery store was knocked down in a robbery and after two weeks in coma has died due to her injuries.
You guessed it, it was my druggie burglar that was supposed to be doing mandatory jail time.