Retailers urged to re-think police
calls for low-level crimes after
George Floyd's death
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
by
Nicole Norfleet
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/12/2021 9:45:24 AM
George Floyd died in police custody after a corner store clerk reported he had used a fake $20 bill, a nonviolent offense so low-level that police don't usually take people to jail for it. Now, as the trial over his death continues to unfold, criminal justice reform experts and diversity specialists are hoping the case will prompt retailers—from small businesses to major chains—to reassess how they treat Black and other minority customers and how they can handle loss prevention cases more equitably.
Retailers, they point out, are on the front lines of racial justice in their own stores. "While interactions with the police
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 4/12/2021 9:49:06 AM (No. 751985)
It appears the Dem plan is to turn over all retail sales to Amazon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sanspeur 4/12/2021 9:52:48 AM (No. 751990)
the “black / minority “ get out of jail card . license to steal ? what low amoral fresh hell is this ? allow stealing , save a life ? stealing = death sentence? low expectations can we allow a little murder next ?
the obverse side , vague “thought /word “ crimes are hugely punishable. Kiss a person , loosen a mask , say an unpc word ? hang ‘em high ..
oh , defund police , employ social worker interventionists
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Zarin 4/12/2021 9:52:51 AM (No. 751991)
This idea & action has been going on for decades. Gas station convenience stores regularly get a horde of shop lifters in after the bars close - unless they shut their doors. I read recently about a (white) woman (a karen) who yelled at a store manager for calling the cops on 2 guys who had stolen something. She said it wasn't his store & and he didn't have to call the cops to harass the perps. Oh, yes - just let them steal from you. Wonder why sane business owners leave the cities?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/12/2021 10:10:35 AM (No. 752014)
I don't care what race,creed, color, or religion you are.
You steal from me, I'm calling the cops on you and prosecuting you.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mean Gene 4/12/2021 10:11:24 AM (No. 752017)
In some poor countries, "customers" come into the store, ask for a list of goods and the merchant pulls them and a sale is made all with thick bulletproof glass between them.
The original Best Buy stores used to be like that in Co Cal.
After the Rodney King's police verdict of not guilty in So Cal, even fast food places switched to a system like this.
Blacks and their allies misbehaving might force many more commercial buildings to armor up.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
downnout 4/12/2021 10:16:11 AM (No. 752021)
I continue to be amazed that most of the black community finds nothing objectionable in the paternalistic, insulting way they are treated by the leftists. Wake up, they treat you like ignorant children!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/12/2021 10:20:31 AM (No. 752026)
Low level? Attempted use of counterfeit currency is aa federal crime good for up to 20 years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/12/2021 10:21:09 AM (No. 752027)
Is stealing a smart TV minor?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/12/2021 10:21:18 AM (No. 752029)
and this from the non-subscription RedStar..
any other suggestions for us?
everyone in the Twin Cities now uses CrimeWatchMpls for news
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/12/2021 10:24:02 AM (No. 752032)
OP nails it. They are admitting that blacks steal. Go easy on them and you won’t have riots. Equity = blacks steal; whites pay more for products to cover losses due to blacks’ stealing. Some image, blacks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JayD 4/12/2021 10:31:22 AM (No. 752042)
If I owned a retail business in Minneapolis I would be re-thinking whether I want to remain located in Minneapolis.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/12/2021 10:35:26 AM (No. 752048)
How about Minneapolis passing an ordinance ordering everyone in that city to remove the locks from the front doors of all homes so that “folks from the community” can enter the homes and take what they wish for equity purposes? After all it is not equitable for homeowners to have two large screen TVs in their home when a “member of the community” has no TV’s. If that happened you can safely bet that the high speed leftists and liberals who continuously push such garbage would demand certain waivers be placed in any such ordinance to protect themselves and their property.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/12/2021 10:42:36 AM (No. 752053)
If you watch the George Floyd video when he was inside Cup Foods, the store owner is packing heat. They also have 4-5 employees working in a relatively small store. They were probably sick of getting ripped off constantly. Are they supposed to let people rob them blind?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 4/12/2021 10:44:21 AM (No. 752055)
Maybe I don't think straight, but after George Floyd's death, it seems like folks should be encouraged to not commit "low level crimes" .
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/12/2021 10:48:27 AM (No. 752058)
Sounds like California's Prop 47 that downgrades from felony to misdemeanor thefts worth less than $950. I'm sure that's worked out fine.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ronbet 4/12/2021 10:49:37 AM (No. 752061)
We are rapidly reaching the point where stores are going to have to use extreme prejudiced against these criminals. In other words, shoot them. Those who suggest businesses allow looters to have their way in their stores and business places are just nuts. This is not equity, it is just caving in to blacks.
Going soft of criminals always leads to more criminal activity. ONLY a Democrat could fail to understand this basic fact.
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This is really an op-ed disguised as a news story. Nobody but the usual "inclusivity" leaches really thinks businesses can afford to allow unchecked theft as a solution to anything. The author and quoted sources cannot bring themselves to identify the real problem, which is lawlessness within the communities they claim to care so much about - drugs, robberies, muggings, rapes and murders - all of which are undeniably higher in those communities.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
sw penn 4/12/2021 11:01:56 AM (No. 752080)
"While interactions with the police can be fairly infrequent, everyone shops," said Cassi Pittman Claytor, a sociology professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
"I don't think that they really have dealt with and have been honest about dealing with it," said Jesse Ross, a local diversity and inclusion consultant who has worked with a range of retailers
Perhaps if roving bands of black clad retailers
were smashing down professors' and diversity and inclusion consultants'
doors, breaking their windows and stealing their stashes,
professors' and diversity and inclusion consultants'
wouldn't be saying stupid ph'ing sheet!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/12/2021 11:23:57 AM (No. 752110)
Right. Ignore the law and cut every undeserving black perp undue slack. WCGW?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/12/2021 11:24:11 AM (No. 752112)
Go right ahead and batch about "food deserts" when retailers can't afford to replace stolen stock and can't get insurance on a building that is likely to be burned to the ground the next time a cop pulls a trigger.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/12/2021 11:41:00 AM (No. 752142)
Yeah that will work. A little crime is okay, just avoid the big stuff. Problem is, nobody agrees on where the red line is. Department stores used to lock black cosmetic products in secure cases but not white cosmetic products. Why do you suppose that is? Now they are being shamed into giving stuff away. Why not simply remove the checkout stations and let everybody walk out with whatever they need?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 4/12/2021 11:44:45 AM (No. 752145)
Rudy Giuliani demonstrated in New York that it is the “low-level” crimes that must be prosecuted so as to reduce more-serious crimes.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 4/12/2021 11:47:25 AM (No. 752149)
Yeah, just let 'low level crime' go and soon it will be HIGH level crimes.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
marbles 4/12/2021 11:48:27 AM (No. 752152)
Are they going to rewrite the laws so that some crimes are no longer crimes. Shoplifting, drunk driving, assault, looting, passing counterfeit money, arson, home invasion, burglary,trespassing , carjacking,etc. are just part of everyday life.......why point a finger at at someone and involve the police. " Loss prevention " aka theft, aka stealing, is and will always be against the law unless , it seems. you're black ( with a lower case b ) If you're white , it's still a crime. This is racism. You must enforce the laws in a civilized society. Not just some of them some of the time. If you don't you have anarchy. Don't want to go to jail, don't break the laws. Want to succeed, stay in school, learn a trade, a skill, get a job. Contrary to the liberal belief agenda you can succeed . The dems want blacks to wallow in victim hood. They care nothing for the person, only for how they( the dems) can profit from said victim hood.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/12/2021 12:26:24 PM (No. 752203)
The police have been woked and diversified. You are wasting your time calling the police.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 4/12/2021 12:45:07 PM (No. 752238)
The Minnie-Apples people are seriously deranged.
Floyd killed Floyd, and the only thing that would have changed if the police weren't called is that he would have been found dead in his car, and the officers would not have had their live upended for nothing.
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The "broken window" law enforcement that Rudy Guiliani introduced in NYC reduced crime across the board.
What form of amnesia/wishful thinking does it take to ignore that kind of history?
What other motives drive the Left to ignore the obvious?
I'm afraid their motives have nothing to do with maintaining law and order. Far from it.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
TLCary 4/12/2021 1:45:08 PM (No. 752303)
Strong Armed Robbery is a Violent Felony Crime. As soon as George the Gentle Giant laid hands on the clerk it became a felony.
Also, according to federal law, crimes involving counterfeit currency are felonies, regardless of the denomination. Must be The Star Tribune failed to ask a lawyer, find the law, do a Nexis search, OR GOOGLE.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 4/12/2021 4:24:39 PM (No. 752451)
It seems the left is marching towards nothing should be a crime anymore, so need to hire police. Sounds like a plan. NOT!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
NessunDorma 4/12/2021 4:41:35 PM (No. 752470)
They can always go the Walgreens route. Walgreens has closed 10 (so far) San Francisco locations because shoplifting has reached the level that those stores run at a loss ("they just come in, get what they want from the shelves and leave"). Pretty soon we'll be hearing about pharmacy deserts.
Even big businesses can absorb only so much loss. Plus, when "minor" infractions are excused and not punished, particularly if it's done in the name of social justice, the miscreants develop a sense of entitlement and look for bigger and better ways to satisfy their needs. It's not petty crime that leads to bigger crime, it's the getting away with petty crimes.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/12/2021 9:32:17 PM (No. 752678)
Just let people print up money as they see fit. Of course, when gas hits $500 per gallon we may regret it.
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It's conceded that bLACK and other minority customers are going to shoplift no matter what, and in the name of equity, stores should allow this. Great plan for destroying retail business, especially smaller companies.