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Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« on: December 08, 2021, 10:05:30 AM »
The Chicago mayor is blaming retail stores for the shoplifting and  flash mob looting that's going on there.  She says they need to beef up their security and is chiding stores for not hiring security guards.

Because if only they had security guards that did more than record the incidents on their phones, the guards could physically stop the looters and not face any legal consequences, right?

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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2021, 10:07:56 AM »
Now do rape victims Mayor Lightfoot.

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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2021, 10:22:00 AM »
Well, if the onus is on store owners to provide their own security as they see fit, then start shooting looters on sight and posting videos to YouTube. If the videos don't stop looters, attrition eventually will.

I cannot fathom the mindset it takes to see her administration as anything but a dismal failure.

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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2021, 10:38:55 AM »
So mass releasing criminals back into society to score PC Brownie Points, defunding the police, and prosecuting anyone who tries to stop them is creating problems? Hmmm, let's blame the victims. Yeah, that's it. Oh and release some more criminals, my poll numbers are down.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2021, 10:45:16 AM »
Bet she wins reelection. Seriously   :facepalm:
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2021, 10:49:50 AM »
This is how you get more Rittenhouse situations.

We need bigger sticks to go with the carrots.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2021, 11:27:54 AM »
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2021, 03:49:05 PM »
Well, if the onus is on store owners to provide their own security as they see fit, then start shooting looters on sight and posting videos to YouTube. If the videos don't stop looters, attrition eventually will.

I cannot fathom the mindset it takes to see her administration as anything but a dismal failure.

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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2021, 04:33:01 PM »
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2021, 05:27:38 PM »
Bet she wins reelection. Seriously   :facepalm:

The criminal class is her largest constituency.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2021, 07:08:28 PM »
It would be interesting if they would allow use of force. Even a frickin' baton...
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2021, 07:18:19 PM »
You know, I'm guessing that it is not the case law which is the problem...
 
I figure the problem is that the insurance companies stipulate that force cannot be used, because... they settle the lawsuits.
 
Lawyer up, self-insure, and refuse to settle.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2021, 07:32:21 PM »
Nonlethal area denial.
Employ acoustic weapons.  Some of that super low frequency stuff that makes people shat themselves.
indelible dye sprayed from the doorways so that perps can be identified.
Deploy foul odors. A combination of skunk, rotting corpse and Nancy Pelosi's crotch.
Line the perimeter with job applications.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2021, 07:56:24 PM »
Seriously - "The dude that is in front of the store with the AR will shoot your ass if you try to break in" is an actual deterrent here in protestville...
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2021, 08:19:45 PM »
They need roof Koreans.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2021, 09:19:33 PM »
Around here, they have "front of store ay-rabs."
 
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2021, 09:20:27 PM »
...and in other news you can't see, Lori's buddies are now running "security" companies...
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2021, 11:23:55 PM »
...and in other news you can't see, Lori's buddies are now running "security" companies...
. . . and they're paid in TVs, watches, Nike shoes, designer handbags . . .
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2021, 12:02:00 AM »
Nonlethal area denial.
Employ acoustic weapons.  Some of that super low frequency stuff that makes people shat themselves.
indelible dye sprayed from the doorways so that perps can be identified.
Deploy foul odors. A combination of skunk, rotting corpse and Nancy Pelosi's crotch.

Wasn't the use of WMDs against mostly non-violent protestors outlawed?
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2021, 11:14:10 AM »
Here in STL, the cops got their riot gear on, formed multiple lines, and bottled the protesters into one area on evening...
 
They aren't allowed to do that anymore.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2021, 09:06:34 AM »
It IS the store's fault for fostering the bourgeois White supremacist capitalistic economy.

If they didn't have stuff worth stealing, flash mobs wouldn't be hitting them.

Duh.  :facepalm:

(Lefties nod their heads in agreement. Normal people recognize sarcasm when it's this obvious.)
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2022, 07:05:34 PM »
Well this should help  ;/

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thanks to Illinois’ new “bail reform” bill, there’s no criminal penalty for leaving home while you’re being monitored. In fact, a criminal on house arrest can leave and do God knows what. As long as they’re back within 48 hours, there’s no criminal penalty.

Chicago ‘Electronic Home Monitoring’ Program Gives Accused Criminals 48-Hour Free Passes
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2022, 07:50:02 PM »
It IS the store's fault for fostering the bourgeois White supremacist capitalistic economy.

If they didn't have stuff worth stealing, flash mobs wouldn't be hitting them.

Duh.  :facepalm:

(Lefties nod their heads in agreement. Normal people recognize sarcasm when it's this obvious.)

It's a self-repairing problem. Eventually, the stores will all close and there won't be any theft because there won't be anything there to thieve.

Of course, when (not if) the stores all close and leave the city with no place to buy food or pharmaceuticals, the usual suspects will kvetch at the evil, capitalist store owners, not at the thieves who drove the stores away.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #23 on: January 08, 2022, 07:24:28 AM »
I really, REALLY hope this crap continues, and that the liberals continue to double down on their shenanigans.

It was this situation in the 1970s that helped get people fed up with crime and with liberal leadership and it ushered in the Reagan era of the 80s.

We don't have a Ronald Reagan on the horizon right now, or at least one we can identify, but a true conservative leader is out there, waiting.
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Re: Chicago Mayor Blames Stores for Theft
« Reply #24 on: January 08, 2022, 09:04:31 AM »
It's a self-repairing problem. Eventually, the stores will all close and there won't be any theft because there won't be anything there to thieve.

Of course, when (not if) the stores all close and leave the city with no place to buy food or pharmaceuticals, the usual suspects will kvetch at the evil, capitalist store owners, not at the thieves who drove the stores away.
The very same people kvetching probably pushed policies enabling the thieves in the first place.

I remember when Sears - then still very profitable - closed one of its stores in Chicago because of theft and vandalism - and of course no less than Jesse Jackson himself went on a tear and asked that the city FORCE Sears to keep it open. (His efforts failed.)

Grocery theft went WAY down after grocery chains (some with stores burned out during riots) closed or stopped building additional stores in certain areas, leading people like Michell Obama to lament "Food Deserts" that weren't "serving their communities" or some such.

And just in the past year or so, a number of drug store chains closed stores in areas where shoplifting was "decriminalized" and the police stopped responding to calls. And of course, activists decried the creation of "pharmacy deserts."

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