In order to fund their addictions, the addicts have to steal stuff. Retailers have become a primary target, and a new bill that has been going through the California legislature would actually “ban retail staff from stopping thieves stealing from their stores”…When the people decide the politicians they elected aren’t working in their best interests, or worse, are working against the them, the people are likely to be driven to take matters into their own hands. For instance, will street justice become the de facto justice system in these cities? Considering many of these same cities have a shortage of law enforcement officers caused by those same city governments defunding their police departments and so-called ‘blue flight’ as demoralized and denigrated police officers quit those police departments and either relocated to departments elsewhere or left law enforcement entirely, would the purposely crippled justice system be able to stop citizens from taking the law into their own hands? Somehow, I doubt it, particularly if 3’S’ justice – Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up – is employed.
Lawmakers in California are hoping to push through controversial legislation that would ban retail staff from stopping thieves stealing from their stores.Seriously?
Senate Bill 553, which was submitted by State Senator Dave Cortese, has been passed by the State Senate and will now progress to policy committees in the State Assembly. Cortese hopes the proposed law will prevent workplace violence and protect staff from being forced by their employers to step-in during robberies. But some store bosses are furious about the plans, with the California Retailers Association mocking the move as an open invitation for thieves “to come in and steal.”
It is already ridiculously easy to shoplift in California, and the politicians want to make it even easier?
Are they insane?
The theory is that there will be fewer violent confrontations if the crooks are just allowed to do whatever they want.
Of course the overworked and overwhelmed police rarely get there in time either.
And the few thieves that are caught are let go with just a slap on the wrist as long as they keep their shoplifting under a certain dollar amount.
California is getting dangerously close to legalizing shoplifting, and I am sure that is what many of the politicians would like to see.
But if you use the wrong pronoun or make an “offensive” statement on social media, that could get you into really big trouble.
Nobody will have seen anything. No one will have heard anything. No one will know anything. It is likely video surveillance cameras will have malfunctioned. No forensic evidence will be found as the alleged street justice scene will be spotless.
And so it will start.