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Yet they will arrest and prosecute to the full extent of the law someone who steals a $15 T-Shirt from JC Penny without blinking.
by Clubber 5y ago
Yet they will arrest and prosecute to the full extent of the law someone who steals a $15 T-Shirt from JC Penny without blinking.
- alephnan 5y agoThat amount of theft is not illegal in California
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoAre you mistaking the difference between legal and won’t be prosecuted? It’s the latter. And not for nothing, but I don’t think that policy is working out so well for some businesses specifically in the Bay Area. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/organized-crime-drives-sf-shoplifting-closing-17-walgreens-in-5-years/ar-BB1gI85R https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/organized-crime-drives-...
- bilbo0s 5y agoTo be fair, that's because JC Penny does 95% of the work of apprehending and gathering evidence against the suspect. If they came to a small business that had a shirt shoplifted but did not apprehended the thief, and had no security cameras, they'd take the report and leave. Vast majority of police departments won't have time for that.
- Clubber 5y ago>Vast majority of police departments won't have time for that. How much of that is because they won't allocate time for that but rather allocate time for a more profitable operation, like writing traffic citations? Has there ever been a public accounting on what police departments spend their time on? My medium sized city spends about $500 million a year on police. That seems like a lot. It's the largest single expenditure.