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What would it look like for a retail store employee to "defend against crimes?" Like what are you picturing here?
by giraffe_lady 3y ago
What would it look like for a retail store employee to "defend against crimes?" Like what are you picturing here?
- blackeyeblitzar 3y agoSimply being given permission (particularly by the law) to detain criminals and hold them until police arrive. Same permission for security guards hired by stores or shoppers who want to help. And use of force in defense of property or people. Basically something that will help with immediate stopping of a live crime and consequences for criminals, whatever that help might be, so the rest of us aren’t affected by locked up items and higher prices.
- robocat 3y ago> detain criminals and hold them until police arrive You are suggesting we take the poorest paid retail workers and expect them to hold down criminals! Planet la la. I cannot imagine the employers giving workers training or defensive gear either. And zero backup when workers get taken down as retaliation on the way home... Following your logic perhaps we just need robots with guns.
- blackeyeblitzar 3y agoYou’re making up a worst case scenario. > Following your logic perhaps we just need robots with guns. That doesn’t follow at all.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoWhat sort of force is appropriate to use in defense of deodorant?
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoI got pretty beat up by a shoplifter before I was old enough to realize that it wasn't appropriate for my employer to ask me (a scrawny 16yr old checkstand clerk) to detain him. It really sort of radicalized me against any sort of property-protecting action on the part of an employer. Two decades later I realize that some balance is probably appropriate, but I don't think that having the law on my employer's side would've improved things. I'd just have had the state on my shitlist also.