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This feels like a big turn to me. This just feels super significant, super different than where we were. I also feel like there's way less discussion around th
by rektide 5y ago
This feels like a big turn to me. This just feels super significant, super different than where we were.
I also feel like there's way less discussion around this topic than most topics. I find myself with almost nothing to say about this. What it means, what it indicates, what we do, how to feel about it... I got nothing. This feels unknown, less clear to me, than the regular stream of current events that break across this planet & the west in specific.
- codezero 5y agoSort of agree, sort of disagree. Before the pandemic, Great America Park was a place where groups of teens would jump the fence and rob people with tasers, so this is just another example of that kind of thing. Is it happening more often, or are we just getting national coverage more often? Crime definitely feels up, but I live in the bay area and I don't really feel at all unsafe. We're likely to see a lot of new anti-social behavior as a follow up from a year and a half or more of social and physical isolation, but I don't think it's a dramatic change towards some new normal of roaming bands of teens robbing stores in the bay area. Give it some time to make an example of the ones who were caught, and bring their friends to justice too, and others will do less of it.
- Miner49er 5y agoThese "flash robs" have been a thing (in the US, at least) since at least 2011: https://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142780596/flash-robs-worry-retailers https://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142780596/flash-robs-worry-re... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_rob https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_rob