> See for example shoplifters who just take things off a shelf and walk out knowing no one will stop them because the law says you can’t go fuck them up. I nev

> See for example shoplifters who just take things off a shelf and walk out knowing no one will stop them because the law says you can’t go fuck them up. I never understood how some parts of US just allow that. I live in a country where we have very poor property protection laws, and police still gets routinely called for underage kids stealing chocolates, actually comes, and a whole procedure is done, including parents, a judge, etc. Influenced by movies, I always assumed that a shopkeeper in US would just do the cowboy thing (I know i'm exaggerating a bit) and take out the gun and make the thief put the stuff back, or worse. Watching videos of whole gangs of people just coming inside a store, filling their baskets/carts and leaving while noone does anything seemed so surreal. In a rich country, you'd expect property to be protected, but it doesn't seem so. Even in some of the poorest countries in the world, something like this wouldn't happen, because even random people in the street would go out of their way to stop (and beat) a thief, and the police wouldn't be arresting a passerby for tripping an escaping thief or tackling them to the ground, but would focus on the thief. I mean sure... allowing people to steal offsets the "social security" from the government to retailers, but the safety issue remains.