Permission
By Mitch Berg
What happens when the consequences for criminal behavior drop away to nothing?
I suspect property owners in Minneapolis are about to find out.
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July 9th, 2015 at 9:21 am
It’s just another piece of Minneapolis’s strategy to discourage using cars in the city.
July 9th, 2015 at 10:09 am
Speaking of non consequences… it looks like the immigration criminal that shot Kathryn Steinle got his murder weapon in a car burglary in San Francisco.
Leftist leaderslobs are in full denial mode right now, and God help us, Trump is being vindicated.
July 9th, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Mpls will do what every other major metro area will do when crime rates accelerate – fire the police chief.
July 9th, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Mitch:
I’ve had two things like that happened.
One I was driving a car that was stalling. some teenager rearended me and fled the scene of the crime and Minneapolis Police weren’t interested.
Two, years ago I was hired to move a couple’s items into storage. During the move my checkbook disappeared. Next thing I knew I had a wife all over town writing checks. I had put stop payments on every check and not a single merchant was interested when I told them I thought I knew who did it.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
July 10th, 2015 at 10:31 am
Walter: Cops have more important things to do – like direct traffic at the latest assembly against injustice.
July 13th, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Tweety; and speaking of a lack of consequences, I’ll be waiting to see if the BLM employee is fired for not using his department-provided lockbox for the storage of his firearm when he did whatever it was that required him to be unarmed. I am not optimistic.
And really, isn’t the lesson we learned with New York City–and a bunch of other cases–that good things happen when you start penalizing little crimes? That when the police already have the fingerprints and DNA of the squeegee guy, he just might think twice about burglary or murder, and if he doesn’t, it’s easier to catch him?
It’s worth noting that some New York papers are already noting that the gains of “broken windows” policing are already being lost. And we’re doing the same thing.
July 13th, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Also, i had the same experience as Walter with police and merchants when my credit was hacked. Sorry, if I didn’t actually lose money, they couldn’t do anything. The hours of time I spent calling people and writing letters….eh, who cares? I didn’t have a name, but I did have addresses and the like….”here, walk here, the department store will tell you what merchandise you’re looking for, the size, etc…” And we wonder why identity fraud is so pervasive. Duh.