There once was a time when talk like this was on Saturday night live, and we would all get a good laugh. Now idiots actually believe this crap and SNL is no longer funny.
What if a store had security guards? So a mob from the southside comes up to the Gold Coast and storms a high end store. How do they stop them? Use a weapon? What if one or more crooks get shot during the act? That's ok?
No. It would be another couple days of riots, looting, burning and mayhem. The security guard would be arrested and tried in the media. His/her life would be over.
The mayor is a complete imbecile. Retailers are struggling because no one wants to go downtown to leisurely browse and shop Michigan Ave any more. It's too dangerous. Hiring private security won't solve that. Police work, locking up criminals, appropriate bail and prosecutions will. But that doesn't happen.
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@carpediem Security guards are systemic racism and homophobia and all that noise and bullshit.
@SW-User Exactly. Yet this airhead is whining that retailers need to hire and pay for security to protect their goods. Who wants to do business in a place like that?
@SooperSarah Yep. Any attempt to overpower the thieves will get the security guard or cop tossed into jail and the store sued out of business.
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@graphite Even worse than going out of business.....the owner might get called racist.....which would automatically make them worse than Hitler, Stalin, and the devil himself combined! [Dramatic gasp]
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Its racist and some kind of phobic to suggest that the people who rob the stores are at fault......implying that actions have consequences makes you a white supremacist.
@LamontCranston They think social workers are the way to go......which is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
Here's a scenario of how democrats think crime should be stopped:
The social workers would sit the criminals down at a table and engage in a sensitive, inclusive, gender-neutral dialogue about their behavior. They would remind the criminals that they are actually the victims.....because white people exist and continue to insist on existing. The social workers would then emphasize the importance of the feelings of the criminals and how the democrat politicians of their city care so deeply about their plight and, if they are to help alleviate this plight.....they'll need the criminals to keep voting for them, preferably by mail so they vote more than once. Then, while the criminals and the social workers are lightly and sensitively buttering their free trade organic scones (paid for by taxpayers of course) the social workers would conclude the dialogue by asking the criminals what kind of punishment they would prefer.
That's how democrats think crime should be stopped.
Trying to shift blame from a crime's root cause away to something else is a sleight-of-hand distraction that magicians use and is a bit like trying to cure the symptom instead of fix the actual cause. Lordy Lightweight is making more excuses for not being an effective mayor.
@Budwick You think forfeiting a few hundred bucks would somehow change anything? Lol.
The whole bail thing is moronic. If someone is a flight risk or will likely reoffend, simply keep them in jail until their trial. And if someone isn’t, it doesn’t matter whether they have a few dollars sitting around or not.
Mayor Stankfoot has a point here... If those damned stores would stop carrying merchandise, people wouldn't steal from them.
The other great solution to Chicago's problems... If people would just quit getting in the way of bullets on the south side, the number of shootings would go way down.
@Carazaa When i watched the news reports on Mayor Lightfoot's statements, I found it hard to believe but they were correct. She presides over (not governs) the murder capital of America.
@Carazaa You must be blind. She may have accomplished things in her life. Fine. But she's certainly not qualified to be the mayor of Chicago. She's a disaster. Her policies are awful. She treats others like dirt. She's one of the reasons Chicago is failing. There is no question about it. And those are facts, not "gossip".
