Posted on 02/24/2018 8:40:32 AM PST by george76
While the three-year spike in violent crime in Baltimore draws most of the attention, business owners across the city have suffered a similar increase in commercial robberies. Such crime has risen 88 percent in the last five years, from 560 commercial robberies in 2013 to more than 1,000 last year.
Business owners are also complaining of threats outside their stores: drug dealing, intimidation, stabbings and shootings. They’re fighting back with security measures — guards, surveillance cameras, door buzzer systems — moving out of the city or, in some cases, shutting down altogether.
“Our members are very concerned,” said Cailey Locklair Tolle, president of the Maryland Retailers Association. “Unfortunately, a lot of our members don’t relocate. It’s a massive endeavor. A lot of times they just go out of business.”
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A Family Dollar Store on nearby Northern Parkway was robbed twice in the last two months of 2017, an assistant manager said. He said he was working in December when an armed man wearing a ski mask walked into the store as it opened and demanded cash and cigarettes.
The assistant manager did not want to be identified because no arrests have been made.
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the store has added a sign at the entrance asking customers to remove face masks and hoods before entering.
“I’m just more mindful of my surroundings and who is in the store,” the assistant manager said.
Similarly, Thompson has added a sign to her Metro PCS store, handwritten on a piece of notebook paper: “Please remove all hats, hoods, masks. Wait to be buzzed in — Thanks!”
The buzzer system allows her to keep the front door locked. When customers press a button, she can open the door from behind the register.
“We are just trying to stay vigilant,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Where the Democrats are in charge, this is invariably foreseeable. They don’t seem to mind.
Balto-mau-mau— Oh, I forgot, it’s those gosh darn Amish, Norwegians, and Swedes.
Obama’s little bast**ds running around, never upto any good.
Isn’t this what they call the Ferguson effect? When you prosecute cops for doing their job don’t be surprised when they don’t do their job. Enjoy the increased crime wave.
The problem is not the African-American crime wave, but rather the fact that those racist Korean shopkeepers are allowed to use bullet-proof glass to protect themselves.
At least, that was the problem in Philly.
Baltimore schools are at the bottom of the nation’s performance ratings. Seems to be a common thread in demonrat areas.
It’s suburban white people’s fault. They have power. Says the Left.
Suburban white people are oppressing them, says the Left.
But are the robbers being given enough SPACE?
Attendance at Baltimore City Schools crashes to 13 Year low just as juvenile crime spikes up.
Its all BLM and whiteys fault.
... and who thought BHO would be any different????
When will we learn not to provide incentives to single parent homes? I wonder how many of these criminals grew up in single parent homes?
Liberal Income Redistribution. Film at 11.
They would probably promise Jack the Ripper amnesty if he voted for them.
Cigarettes?!
Moving out or closing are the options. Who wants to do business in a de facto war zone? And the downward spiral continues...
When they are desperate, even the dead are game, if one can get the vote done.
Dat’s rasis’!
The mayor already told the cops to “back off” from all of the racist colonial oppressive law enforcement stuff.
Now all of these uppity business people actually have the nerve to expect “the man” to protect their businesses from the feral hood rats?
Next election, they should reconsider their choices, and stay away from the socialist-democrat third world shithole castro/mugabe/stalin/chavez/SJW wannabes.
Otherwise, let them stew in their own stupidity.
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