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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago Mayor Blames Stores, Not Woke Nonsense, for Boom in Robberies
2021-12-09
[PJ] Chicago’s woke mayor knows who is to blame for the recent looting of high-end stores. It’s the stores, DUH!

How do we know she believes something so stupid? She said so, publicly!
I’m disappointed that they’re not doing more to take safety and make it a priority. For example, we still have retailers that won’t institute plans like having security officers in their stores, making sure that they’ve got cameras that are actually operational, locking up their merchandise at night, chaining high-end bags. These purses can be something that is attracting a lot of organized retail theft units,"

Nevermind that she and her state’s attorney, Kim Foxx, all but allow shoplifting without punishment for anyone stealing less than $1,000 worth of swag. Now she’s cranky that stores aren’t investing more money in security.

What would happen if a white security guard tackled a black woman leaving with 12 handbags? I smell a charge of racism!

The nation has seen organized swarms of shoplifters handbag redistribution specialists wreaking havoc in high-end stores, frequently striking in droves, armed with hammers, and taking whatever they can carry. Suddenly, the looters—oops that word is racist—thugs don’t seem too concerned with staying under the $1,000 threshold.

Louis Vuitton is a major target for the criminals; thieves recently made off with roughly $100,000 from a Chicago-area store. Their San Francisco store was hit as well. San Francisco’s Union Square, the swanky shopping district that has been hit hard by looters lately, is now a boarded-up ghost town. Merry Christmas!

Posted by:Besoeker

#11  And now the fahkin' 111 over the fahkin' Tobin? Kinda scared to look at the rest of it (this has been one of those "simulation software taking the day off" days).
Posted by: Unavimp Chusogum4170   2021-12-09 22:23  

#10  [pause] F-ck me, that's Boston. [provisionally allows Equalizer franchise back into my universe]
Posted by: Unavimp Chusogum4170   2021-12-09 22:14  

#9  

My favorite take on how to deal with blue state crime...
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-12-09 21:23  

#8  I hear the same 'hearsay' as direct experience by my relatives who live downtown there, swksvolFF.

They all carry, even though illegal to do so in the city (unless you have 'special permission'.

They figure that the punishment for doing so is far and away offset by the advantages.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-12-09 20:32  

#7  Guy who said he has family N. IL says this is rampant, people getting shot for not cooperating, only the stuff unable to be buried kinda, sort of, makes a mention in the news.

Absolute hearsay, but...seems to be a lot of tertiary evidence.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-12-09 18:08  

#6  Ima thinking these people don't get elected; they're installed. Maybe honest elections are the big scam and have been for quite awhile.

This mayor is not good at science--she's the master of the non sequitur; for her, cause and effect time sequence are scrambled.
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-12-09 13:17  

#5  On a serious note (and the mayor is not being serious) what will the private security do? Can they achieve anything without fear of lawsuits if the police won't do anything?
Posted by: magpie   2021-12-09 13:10  

#4  Does she mean a Judge Dredd dystopia where the store is an automat with product showcased behind lift up doors (Look, Don't Touch!) and automatic machine guns in the ceiling? That kind of "security"...?
Posted by: magpie   2021-12-09 13:08  

#3  Soros should be hung from a lamppost. That sick f--k has the blood of thousands on his hands.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-09 12:44  

#2  The only reason retail stores spend any money on security is to give law abiding paying customers the false sense of security to shop again. The paid security does nothing except call 911 and then get ignored by the local tax paying security known as LEOs, district attorneys, Bureaucrats, politicians….
Posted by: Airandee   2021-12-09 12:27  

#1  George Soros is the 'common thread' linking cities with rising crime rates: Watters
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-09 12:19  

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