That’s ridiculous right. After all the dairies and supermarkets that have been and will be robbed, once again I ask “what are our taxes being wasted on”?
We know how successful that was in the US ( goods under $900) with everyday items locked away behind plexi-glass, requiring assistants to appear with keys to unlock toothpaste, etc. The cheaper everyday items were the attraction for the thieves and thus locking them away was a punishment to all honest consumers. Eventually, California had to change that law. The cheap goods under US$900 were stolen and resold online, undercutting the Main Street businesses. A huge recipe for disaster!
"We only have so much resource," MacDonald said. "Each district has to make a choice." Maybe stop chasing people for “hurty words” and they would have the resources to stop actual crime.
Police have “limited” resources. So the answer is to fill the gap with technology such as facial id and biometric tracking and cameras when you do your shopping. The criminals will still continue to steal because the cops now have no reason to do their job but everyone else will be used to generate data on their shopping habits so that we're commoditised even further.
This is all about pushing increased surveillance in the name of “crime prevention”.
I absolutely saw red when I heard about this statement by a Police representative yesterday.
Clueless and ill-informed in the conclusion I have reached after a day to contemplate.
They will fuel an absolute frenzy of shoplifting, 'up to' the value of $500. Retailor and dairy owners will be bracing themselves for more smash and grab, violent robberies, fueled by the Police's idiotic public statement.
You only have to look outside to California, that had an epidemic of smash and grab, plus criminal 'flash mobs' targeting department stores after the passing of
" Proposition 47, passed 10 years ago by California’s voters. This law put into practice one of those “compassionate” ideas: it transformed any theft of goods worth less than $950 from a felony into a misdemeanor. It did the same with drug possession. "
The type of crimes described above increased, as did aggravated assaults and robberies.
in addition, "..downtown areas of cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco became uninhabitable thanks to the rise of open drug use and petty crime. ... toothpaste and deodorant were under lock and key in drug stores. So many businesses fled San Francisco’s city limits that the vacancy rate for commercial real estate hit an astonishing 36 percent by the end of 2023."
Finally after seeing the results, voters in California's voters have passed Proposition 36, increasing penalties for smash and grab crimes.
Lastly:
"In Los Angeles, voters took the unheard-of step of electing an actual Republican as district attorney, ousting from office a George Soros-funded DA, George Gascón.
In Oakland, voters not only recalled the DA for all of Alameda County, they also recalled the mayor, Sheng Thao, who similarly hailed from the radical left and is being investigated by the FBI for possible corruption relating to city garbage contracts.
In San Francisco, Mayor London Breed was defeated by Dan Lurie, who ran, in part, on a platform to increase police presence, increase shelter beds, and fight corruption."
Do we here in NZ really want to go through all this ourselves? We voted for change, not more stupid.
Comments of the California experience are copied from Michael Shellenberger's 'Public' Substack. He has reported extensively on the problems in California over a considerable period of time.
See what the Crimes Act 1961 says about 'claim of right' if perchance Police do follow up on so-called petty theft. It'll be open season for the crims.
Seems traffic fines are more important than stopping petty thefts, which are the starting point of more serious crimes. Policing 101 I thought.
That’s ridiculous right. After all the dairies and supermarkets that have been and will be robbed, once again I ask “what are our taxes being wasted on”?
I was told overseas that you use your till receipt to open the exit door at the supermarket - seems like a WOW idea.
We know how successful that was in the US ( goods under $900) with everyday items locked away behind plexi-glass, requiring assistants to appear with keys to unlock toothpaste, etc. The cheaper everyday items were the attraction for the thieves and thus locking them away was a punishment to all honest consumers. Eventually, California had to change that law. The cheap goods under US$900 were stolen and resold online, undercutting the Main Street businesses. A huge recipe for disaster!
Similar policy directive has worked out really well for California hasn't it?!
"We only have so much resource," MacDonald said. "Each district has to make a choice." Maybe stop chasing people for “hurty words” and they would have the resources to stop actual crime.
Police have “limited” resources. So the answer is to fill the gap with technology such as facial id and biometric tracking and cameras when you do your shopping. The criminals will still continue to steal because the cops now have no reason to do their job but everyone else will be used to generate data on their shopping habits so that we're commoditised even further.
This is all about pushing increased surveillance in the name of “crime prevention”.
I absolutely saw red when I heard about this statement by a Police representative yesterday.
Clueless and ill-informed in the conclusion I have reached after a day to contemplate.
They will fuel an absolute frenzy of shoplifting, 'up to' the value of $500. Retailor and dairy owners will be bracing themselves for more smash and grab, violent robberies, fueled by the Police's idiotic public statement.
You only have to look outside to California, that had an epidemic of smash and grab, plus criminal 'flash mobs' targeting department stores after the passing of
" Proposition 47, passed 10 years ago by California’s voters. This law put into practice one of those “compassionate” ideas: it transformed any theft of goods worth less than $950 from a felony into a misdemeanor. It did the same with drug possession. "
The type of crimes described above increased, as did aggravated assaults and robberies.
in addition, "..downtown areas of cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco became uninhabitable thanks to the rise of open drug use and petty crime. ... toothpaste and deodorant were under lock and key in drug stores. So many businesses fled San Francisco’s city limits that the vacancy rate for commercial real estate hit an astonishing 36 percent by the end of 2023."
Finally after seeing the results, voters in California's voters have passed Proposition 36, increasing penalties for smash and grab crimes.
Lastly:
"In Los Angeles, voters took the unheard-of step of electing an actual Republican as district attorney, ousting from office a George Soros-funded DA, George Gascón.
In Oakland, voters not only recalled the DA for all of Alameda County, they also recalled the mayor, Sheng Thao, who similarly hailed from the radical left and is being investigated by the FBI for possible corruption relating to city garbage contracts.
In San Francisco, Mayor London Breed was defeated by Dan Lurie, who ran, in part, on a platform to increase police presence, increase shelter beds, and fight corruption."
Do we here in NZ really want to go through all this ourselves? We voted for change, not more stupid.
Comments of the California experience are copied from Michael Shellenberger's 'Public' Substack. He has reported extensively on the problems in California over a considerable period of time.
https://www.public.news/p/why-california-took-so-long-to-crack
See what the Crimes Act 1961 says about 'claim of right' if perchance Police do follow up on so-called petty theft. It'll be open season for the crims.