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It's shocking, but it is probably happening all over the country. In USA there is a shortage of workers, including security workers, and police benefit from that. Some of the allegations amount to corruption, some just business realities. This is a job for FBI to figure out.
It's shocking, but it is probably happening all over the country. In USA there is a shortage of workers, including security workers, and police benefit from that. Some of the allegations amount to corruption, some just business realities. This is a job for FBI to figure out.
You forgot the asterisk always required when one hears the phrase "shortage of workers*" --> "shortage of workers for the wage being offered."
Couple months after that started, the guy's house burned down. I heard the trucks came out twice, the second time there were more people responding and the police got into the guy's barn with a major weed grow. Not sure what the whole story was but the VFD moved and became a different entity after that.
The moral is that neighbors enforce the character of the neighborhood. Not cops.
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Childish reductionism. I'd like to see how well you handle 100 people ganging up on you and your family if true Mad Max style anarchy starts.
Already we've got two top-level comments who think this article is about crime. It isn't. It's about corrupt police shaking down small business owners under threat of losing their business license. ETA: Please give the pedantry a rest. Of course I know police corruption is criminal. That's not what the people talking about "crime" are talking about.
You would think that > about corrupt police shaking down small business owners under threat of losing their business license. would be a crime...
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Childish reductionism. I'd like to see how well you handle 100 people ganging up on you and your family if true Mad Max style anarchy starts.
Already we've got two top-level comments who think this article is about crime. It isn't. It's about corrupt police shaking down small business owners under threat of losing their business license. ETA: Please give the pedantry a rest. Of course I know police corruption is criminal. That's not what the people talking about "crime" are talking about.
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Childish reductionism. I'd like to see how well you handle 100 people ganging up on you and your family if true Mad Max style anarchy starts.
In fact, both are almost inevitably true on any given day on both the best and the worst situations.
The key is ensuring that the balance is on the good side. This requires distributing power, not allowing it to concentrate in too few hands.
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Even with guns, minimum wage people aren't gonna want to be heroes and risk their lives protecting the money of their boss, when threatened at gunpoint. Even if they're willing to pull the trigger, your average 7-Eleven employee is no Navy Seal and won't react well under gunpoint pressure and might end up shooting some innocent bystander or himself. Just giving guns to everyone is bad idea on so many levels.
I don't think this point gets plastered everywhere in the entirety of the world enough. Most humans don't want to shoot other humans. The few who have murder fantasies do, but other than that nobody wants to take a life. The concept of just arming everyone isn't a positive nor even a remote solution.
That’s because most of the rest of the world doesnt respond to gun crime with arguments that the solution is to issue more guns.
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I don't think this point gets plastered everywhere in the entirety of the world enough. Most humans don't want to shoot other humans. The few who have murder fantasies do, but other than that nobody wants to take a life. The concept of just arming everyone isn't a positive nor even a remote solution.
> I don't think this point gets plastered everywhere in the entirety of the world enough. That’s because most of the rest of the world doesnt respond to gun crime with arguments that the solution is to issue more guns.