Crimes Are Crimes, No Matter How Petty
Townhall,
by
Betsy McCaughey
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
1/26/2022 8:00:09 AM
There's nothing petty about petty crime. Tolerate it, and society descends into disorder.
You're standing in line at Starbucks and watch a freeloader go to the front, pick out a sandwich and walk out without paying. No one says a word.
Or you pay your bills, then find out thieves have robbed the blue USPS box to abscond with your checking information and empty your account. That happened to me last week.
The thieves fish mail out of the box or use stolen USPS keys sold on the internet. This crime is surging, but the police and banks shrug their shoulders and advise going directly to the post office or using electronic banking.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lazyman 1/26/2022 8:20:54 AM (No. 1051187)
Mayor Adams has his hands tied. To be successful he would have to go against his own party and party comes first. The people of NY have to understand that and stay in their apartments.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 1/26/2022 8:43:20 AM (No. 1051207)
Article is right on. However, including carjacking and check forging as petty crimes is brow-furrowing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Michaelus 1/26/2022 8:46:05 AM (No. 1051209)
If no one says a word and the giant corporation does not even allow their employees to stop the theft is it really even theft? Don't we deserve what we are getting? Why not say something? At least take the stolen sandwich and eat it yourself. No one does anything because we are all terrified.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 1/26/2022 9:17:37 AM (No. 1051239)
If people were allowed to use deadly force to defend themselves and their property without fear of prosecution, all this stealing would grind to a stop.
12 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
coldborezero 1/26/2022 9:48:36 AM (No. 1051280)
Day by day, year by year; the people of this country are proving that, as a group, we will put up with anything. Those of us who attempt to stop a crime will be swiftly and severely prosecuted. This is what our self-anointed “betters” want.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/26/2022 9:50:43 AM (No. 1051285)
Only if you're a conservative white person.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/26/2022 9:58:13 AM (No. 1051300)
Absolutely, #4. The Korean grocers protected their stores from looting during the Rodney King riots by standing on the roofs with shotguns pointed at the thugs in the streets. I’ve been saying it for years now - we need to return to the days when looters were shot on sight.
Newsom’s escape from recall was about as honest as TaliBiden’s theft of the WH. But California will continue to let the voter fraud rule their state.
I live in a red state where crime is still taken seriously so it probably would never happen, but it might be a bit amusing if a couple of thugs tried to jack my car - it has 3 pedals on the floor. Manuals are so rarely manufactured these days that I had to special order it and most people under the age of 40 no longer know how to drive one.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/26/2022 10:00:00 AM (No. 1051303)
American society has been trained to turn law enforcement matters over to the professionals. Pizza guy gets robbed...give the crook the money. Store gets hit by shoplifters...let it go, just shrinkage. See something...say something so the cops can show up 15 minutes later, if ever. That, and so many petty crimes are exactly that, petty. Exceeding the speed limit by one mile per hour is no less a violation than five or ten miles per hour...anyone taking down license plates or pulling the violator over for a "citizen's arrest"?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 1/26/2022 10:18:31 AM (No. 1051332)
#7 has been a simpatico soul mate of mine here for years now. Agree way more times than not, we seem to share some commonalities - greyhounds for one, though I don't have any at this time, but that fact that she's a 3 pedal gal just seals the deal. Lucky husband.
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Maybe the residents of NYC should flee that quickly devolving into violence mess and find housing and jobs elsewhere. Yeah, I understand strong feelings for NYC, but there comes a time when you have to ask, 'is it really worth dying for' to live in that city right now? Just don't bring your democrat rot with you is all we ask.
I think they do indeed want to push something nationwide, so that they can finally indulge Obama and his desire for Martial Law. That way they can cancel any upcoming elections and stay in their office until further notice. Jan. 6 was only a dry run, same with the alleged epidemic. They are so close to getting what they want, I hope they are happy when the results aren't what they hoped for. Because we have the guns and we outnumber them, even though the media wants democrats to believe otherwise.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/26/2022 11:50:19 AM (No. 1051444)
The "broken windows policy" was how Guliani stopped the crime wave in NY decades ago. That was a slogan for enforcing all the small laws, because they found that very frequently someone who was breaking a "small" law was illegally armed with a stolen gun, so could be put in prison for years, which stopped how many crimes? Likely dozens. And often these small lawbreakers had warrants out for them, so could be sent right to jail, again - stopping a lot of crimes before they happened.
Enforce the laws, get the lawbreakers into prisons. Protect the honest, law abiding citizenry. It's not actually a difficult concept, except to a Soros "prosecutor".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 1/27/2022 5:13:48 AM (No. 1052140)
Pay your bills online? Years ago, I received a call from my bank. Funds were withdrawn from my account by an identity thief who got my information from a bank employee. After that, I was a victim three more times. Once your information in on the internet, it is bought and sold to others and getting a new SS number takes an act of congress. I no longer bank onlilne.
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What these lefty DA's are doing is inviting vigilantism. People aren't going to stand for this much longer!!