Posted on 08/21/2015 12:08:36 PM PDT by magellan
An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested at a recent roundtable conversation that, in order to combat "overpolicing" in the community, police should no longer respond to shoplifting claims at large stores such as Wal-Mart, and shouldn't agree to prosecute people caught stealing.
"I just don't think that they should be prosecuting cases ... for people who steal from Wal-Mart. I just don't think that, right?" said 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?"
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Stories like this always remind me of Celine Dion after Hurricane Katrina when she championed the looters. “Let zem touch zose tings. Dey have nevair seen zose tings!”
But if they set one foot on her manicured lawn she’d have the cops there with tasers at the ready before you could say “my heart will go on.”
(Walmart pays out $3 billion per quarter to stockholders... and loses $3 billion per year to EMPLOYEE theft alone.)
Claims the certain select groups no longer need adhere to law has long since become a hallmark of the Obama years.
I’m astounded that someone using such poor grammar could be a director of community relations for a university.
Of course it makes me discount everything he is saying simply for that. Doubly so when what he’s proposing is overtly disrespectul for lawful, civilized behavior. He’s actually championing criminal activity.
The Director of Community Relations missed his calling. Should have been an English teacher.
So does the same ban on shoplifting apply at the University bookstore as well? Cause I sure could have saved a fortune it it had been in place at my university when I was there.
I think I’ll go help myself to whatever Everitt Mitchell has at his house. Maybe his food, or his beer. A nice flat screen TV, too. I’m sure he’s got insurance to cover it, so he should not mind.
If he is into women, and not men, and his woman is nice looking, maybe I’ll take her, too.
Liberal politicians feel the same...they are just too dishonest to admit it!!
No. Unfortunately, it is not.
They’re priced per pound.
Actually GraceG beat us both.
Why would THAT be, Mr. Mitchell?
Go trash his car in the parking lot - he’s got insurance, right?
And these idiots think they are “enlightened”...
Just stupid on steroids...
Hey lets all go to his house and steal all his stuff. He just gave us all the justification we need.
After all, everyone knows the police are needed more in areas with LOWER numbers of crimes...
Yeah, I was going to make the same note ... There is a reason why there is a large number of 'people of color' in the prison system, and why they have "frequent contact with law enforcement". Try to address the reason - and maybe you can help cure the disease. Doing otherwise just makes the patient sicker and sicker.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
Why is this so difficult for some to understand and or accept?
He doesn’t think. That’s the problem. The insurance will pay for the theft. Insurance is apparently free.Or those white people can afford it. It’s reparations.
The mom and pop stores come next year.....Uhhhh, look at Michael Brown. If 5% of your produce gets stolen or damaged, you are going under. Which means your suppliers, salesmen, employees, etc. will be unemployed. All according to Obama’s plan.
Does this apply to the bookstore too? Free textbooks, free computers, free whatever you want, just take it.
Well said!
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