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I think you should always take these type of articles with a grain of salt. The author seems keen to play up the drama
by InfiniteRand 5y ago
I think you should always take these type of articles with a grain of salt. The author seems keen to play up the drama
- rightbyte 5y agoDrama? Didn't the SF DA stop enforcing laws on theft under some arbitrary but quite large value? I would not call it an exaggeration.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoThe amount of attention spent on Chesa Boudin and shoplifting is puzzling. Wage theft is by far the biggest form of stealing, and it’s rarely — if ever — prosecuted… but instead we’re worried about a small increase in petty larceny?
- willcipriano 5y agoPolice officers don't investigate wage theft, labor boards do. Not going after shoplifters, bike thieves and porch pirates doesn't free up any resources in order to go after wage theft, it just makes the area less safe and more expensive.
- jakelazaroff 5y agoChesa Boudin is the District Attorney, not a police officer. Wage theft is under his jurisdiction.
- colpabar 5y agoHas he done anything about it? I don't understand why you're bringing this up when the TFA is about armed robbery. I do understand why someone would bring up SF in the first place, because SF decided to stop prosecuting "petty larceny". TFA is about what you'd also call "petty larceny", and the city seems to not care about it.
- yadaeno 5y agoWe shouldn't have to choose between wage theft or regular theft. Also has Boudin done anything significant to combat wage theft? Or do you think since wage theft exists "burn it all down".
- sangnoir 5y agoPolice and prosecutorial resources are limited. They have to be prioritized by necessity.
- bradleyjg 5y agohttps://www.dictionary.com/browse/whataboutism https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whataboutism
- danShumway 5y agoHeads up, this article is about NYC bikers, and NYC has actually increased police budgets lately.
- twofornone 5y agoThe budget doesn't matter when activist DAs are refusing to prosecute, and there are top down orders for catch and release, ostensibly because of covid.
- splintercell 5y agoIt feels like there’s a clear class difference. Almost all of these people are Hispanic/brown immigrants. If this was happening, and presuming it was worse than what the article described, what are the chances that you would know about it?
- sangnoir 5y agoAs a thought experiment, how long would it take for NYPD to respond if young, middle-class, college-aged joggers were being attacked with the same frequency at some dark Central Park corner.