Fired?? They should be prosecuted for theft.
They should be imprisoned for theft and allowed to appeal their summary sentence later. Guilty until proven innocent is the way they like to play things, so give them a taste of their own medicine.
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But let's have a moral panic about the "organized gangs robbing Walgreens" instead, perhaps 67 news stories a day about it?
We'll save the moral panic for when those businesses inevitably leave the neighborhood and create "food deserts". You know, after the damage is already done.
If you’re saying that the “war on drugs” was motivated by any less than 50% racism you lost me. Yes, it was also useful in marginalizing anti war and counter cultural movements, but that was a side-benefit. The war on drugs was started in 1971 - and was a driving force behind that “soaring crime rate”
> 50%
How do you even begin to quantify such a thing as intent? Not least when the best evidence for intent is a dodgy quote published years after the death of the man who might have disputed it?
I do wonder how the police get lucky so often.
Statistically, it seems like the police would very rarely, if ever, catch a person traveling with a lot of cash. First, a person would need to be pulled over (granted, isn't that rare), then the police would need to think to search the vehicle (they certainly aren't searching every out-of-town vehicle that is pulled over).
Yet, somehow they are managing to collect billions each year from civil asset forfeiture.
I suspect, without any proof what-so-ever, that police get records of large cash deposits/withdraws from banks and that information is available to them during traffic stops. These kind of cases happen too frequently to be chance, IMHO. There must be some kind of a priori knowledge available to the officers. Especially when they are nicking people going to pick up used cars from out-of-state or something.
Cops ask people they pull over if they have any weapons or cash in the vehicle, and people are either intimidated or naive enough to answer truthfully. The last time I was pulled over, years ago, I had about $50 in my wallet and the cop asked me if I had any cash. He was visibly annoyed when I responded with "uh, your asking me if I have a wallet?" and gesticulated with the wallet I already had in my hands to show him my ID. He could already see that I had cash in my wallet, but that's not what he was asking about.
wearywanderer commented on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords thinkpol.ca/2021/09/17/be... · Posted by u/based2
If somebody reading this has never been to Tempelhof, I would recommend (please allow me) to think of it as a Park. It is a big area for leisure, with some portable stands for coffee, community gardens, small sport courts, bbq area and grass. And the old airport runways right in the middle of it to run, skate, ride the bike, etc.
On one side it also has the actual airport building. They have very interesting historical tours there.
You can see a couple of representative photos here.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/11/634394533/the-site-of-the-ber...
No offense but that park looks like crap. Can't the city at least plant a few trees?
wearywanderer commented on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords thinkpol.ca/2021/09/17/be... · Posted by u/based2
The vast majority of public housing in Singapore is owned, not rented. However, government policy is that subsidized flats are only available to married couples, and thanks to colonial-era British laws still in force, in Singapore that means only a man and woman.
The quasi-fascist PAP has ruled Singapore with authoritarian force since the 1950s. They have the uncontested power to change any old British law they wish. If they haven't, it's because they've chosen not to. If you want to point fingers, all fingers in modern Singapore should be pointed directly at the PAP.
wearywanderer commented on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords thinkpol.ca/2021/09/17/be... · Posted by u/based2
I think Singapore discriminating against LGBTQ is the bigger deal than Singapore owning the housing.
It's all part of the same deal for people living in Singapore. They don't get to pick and choose which aspects of the government they want (democracy in Singapore is a farce.)
wearywanderer commented on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords thinkpol.ca/2021/09/17/be... · Posted by u/based2
I totally don't get it. Why not use that money to build more apartments instead. Why take on the liability with these apartments beiing asbestos contaminated and needing more money to get rid of this. Too me there is the stench of corruption but I don't have evidence. My Hanlons razor is not sharp enough to cut this here though.
It's obviously corruption. Corporate landlords get to offload their dodgy property to the government and run away with the cash, without the usual time and expense of selling each property on the market. By cynically cloaking themselves in populist language, they're able to easily manufacture the consent of the public.
Food deserts aren't and never were created by shoplifting.
It does.
> and even then others will grow to fill their place.
Filling their place will be family operated corner shops that charge 3x as much. I have lived in such neighborhoods and seen it myself. You can't gaslight me sudosysgen.