Perhaps cutting off fingers and then thumbs, progressing to hands.

And with the punishment goes any chance at welfare from any source, maybe a church will help them. After one hand and the second thumb is guillotined send off to a island, Devils Island is not being used currently.

And if the government is not going to arrest and prosecute the laws what do we need the government for. Really, why pay taxes to the king if the king will not secure the road from road agents.

"You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now"

This quote should be on the city limit signs of every city over 250k now.

Even though GT thinks it's cool to shit on the big city's plight, the fact is, it IS still America, and it IS coming for you.  Laugh at your own peril...

Correct. Home Depot needs to make it nearly impossible to steal from their stores.   Then implement ways to make it hurt to be a thief.

This is how you end up with old school organized mafia crime.

Of course, unlike your tax dollars and the cops, the people you paid protection money to used to actually take care of it.

I live in the far suburbs of DC at best and our local grocery store is already closing entrances and taking other measures

With cameras and tracking everywhere, it's hard to believe they couldn't shut down a large part of this if they wanted to.  IMO, the Soros DAs that decide not to pursue charges for anything under some amount, such as $750 is the biggest part of the problem.

It's not like they're insurrectionists.

This is so true. It's like the spokes on a wagon wheel - you can see it spreading from the large urban areas out the highways into suburbs and then into smaller towns. If there's a highway into your town, it's coming for you at some point.

Canings seem like a good idea- but they must be done publicly. In some circles, doing time in prison is something they respect. I'd be willing to bet that a public bare-ass caning wouldn't get anyone much respect.

Year round tans.

I'm Mexican so it's OK

This is the natural evolution of BLM riots, smile and wave policing, and DAs who refuse to prosecute.

Anyone who lived through the urban decay of the 70s and 80s saw this coming.

This is anarcho tyranny.
This is by design.
It will be used to crush the population into begging for draconian fixes.

We're no longer allowed to call a spade a spade so those fixes won't be stop and frisk against likely suspects.

Nope, it will be 1984 style population control.

Very true.  The infection is spreading.  

It's also a mistake to think it's only "diversity" causing the problem.

Not very many amish in Anchorage.

Are these the same big name stores who kissed BLM ass?

Yes, but white trash thieves are a big part of the problem, too. The main difference is that it's okay to talk about those. But, still, the root of the problem is complicit prosecutors and judges failing to do their jobs.

The US has never been the great satan. Most of the stuff that's happened started with best intentions.

The ability to pervert a good deed has just gotten simpler and faster by leaps and bounds since the 1700's.





This is part of the reason; but I believe they bake in the costs of shrinkage as a general business plan.



That's a high dollar Medeco lock they're using to protect a thin plastic divider right there.




This has been the plan for a long time.

I've talked about it on here before. I was briefly the head of security for a medium-sized mall. It was falling apart and occupancy was down.

I went in with the guard company owners and the land management people on the first day. A little project child, like 5-6, rode past me indoors on a bicycle with training wheels.

I said, we can fix this.

The issue was, I did not understand what the actual underlying problem was.

One of the major issues was that they were all hoping for the property to fail.

Another issue was what were referred to as 'anchor stores'. In the day, this would have been like Sears, JCPenny, etc.

I literally caught a rash of shit from their regional management from the jump. They tried to forbid my guard force from their stores. They did not want us enforcing any kind of order, what so ever.

One day, I was standing there admiring a rack of leather jackets, in uniform. This guy comes in, sizes me up, then proceeds to take every coat, like 20 coats, by hanging the hangers on his skinny arms. He walks out, and not a single member of floor staff broke character, including the manager.

I talked to some local groups like where the old folks hung out. They were terrified of going there because they would get knocked down and mugged. I said, the local police were hired to patrol. They responded that nothing was ever done.

I hand picked a staff and unilaterally decided to become the Mall Marshal.

It worked.

Told the anchor stores they controlled their store and staff, but we owned the walls and we would protect them.
Told the local police they would start doing their job. When they refused, we started citizen arresting people and prosecuting them in their court.
Told the Bad Guys they weren't welcome. Found out we could ban people from the property, and if they returned, they could be prosecuted.

So, we did a TON of that. Took their picture, issued them a written trespass, videoed the thing, escorted them off property. (I think it was like a square mile all counted, it's been 20 years).

Caught them back, held them for the locals to pick up, when they balked, started calling the county to transport. Literally got into it with a city police lieutenant that couldn't understand if a person is being charged with criminal trespassing, you can't fucking release them BACK where they are not legally allowed to be. Told them they could haul them to the dump for all we cared, but you can't leave them there.

First the gangs started trying to intimidate us.
Then I allowed all the corn-fed and ex-mil and police guys to... mix it up a bit with them.
Then they shot out the windows of our little putt putt truck and our office.

(Sorry this is so long, it was fun). One day, I blunderfuck across the head shoplifter. He doesn't lift, he had dozens of little fish that did that, but we banned and arrested so many, he wanted to see it for himself. (We had all the info the county needed to go get all of them, videoed witness statements, cooperating informants, they and the DA did not want it.)

I trespass this guy, he whips out his phone and calls the police.

He wants me charged with kidnapping and unlawful detention, something. When they tell him I have the authority to trespass him (After calling the city attorney), he goes OFF. Screaming, yelling. I ask them to see if he has warrants and he runs. Leaves his car, so I tow that. (We towed a lot of their cars).

Right before I got fired, that mall had the highest numbers of visitors and even the smallest stores had the greatest amount of sales in six months than they had in the last five years. They had empty spaces I encouraged them to rent out for meetings and weddings, and they were booked solid.

Standing there it looked GREAT. We even had a mexican carnival, bunch of get togethers, the public was super happy to reclaim their place.

But everybody else was mad at me. Lawsuits flew. Media ignored it. Police department were INCENSED. I killed their high dollar side job and embarrassed them in court. (Wished we could have afforded body cameras if they existed back then).

(The police department was across from the back of our theater. The absolute worst spot for graffiti was the back wall of the theater).

One anchor store threatened to pull out if I and my crew weren't sacked.

Then I caught the head of maintenance stealing a ton of stuff from the closed portions of the mall (privately owned fixtures, lamps, furniture, stock) by backing her lowboy trailer into the place and just walking away.

six months after I was replaced, the entire place closed and was essentially bulldozed.

(shrugs)

What they told me was stores cost too much and the future is buying online. This has been coming for years. They want the general public to be afraid to go shop. That's why they are doing the 'we bring it to your car'. You think they are helping you; they are helping themselves.

The Guardian Angels were helpful in a society that still had a widespread sense of propriety and community.  

That society is long gone.

Today's criminals would just shoot unarmed Guardian Angles without batting an eye.

We live in a third world country

I live in Pattaya Thailand, many here in GD call Thailand a "Third World Country".
But let me tell you something you might not know about Thailand.
Here they have something called Face, my American friend calls it shame.
If a Thai person were to steal then he would lose face and bring shame on to his family.
Therefore theft is very rare here.
Let me give some examples.
Here are many beer bar complexes which are 10-20 individually owned bars all under one roof with no side walls, like a pavilion open air,
At night they lock their liquor bottles in something resembling a dog crate with a cheap padlock one could easily break.
During the Covid pandemic many bars were closed for 2 years.
They just lined the bar stools across the entrance to deter anyone from entering.
In the bar area each bar had a stereo system as well as speakers and large flatscreen TVs.
Even outside the bar stool barricades were other flat screen TVs mounted from the roof that one could easily walk up to and touch.
Nothing was ever stolen.
The below picture was how this bar was "locked up" for 2 years.

The.

This doesn’t stop until criminals of all kinds are punished and out back in prison. Gonna be some thugs that need to catch some lead. Covid was an excuse to let these scumbags out.

Gecko45?

That would be racist.

Bring back the real Mafia and this shit stops real quick.

I don't get it, you are glad that you lived in a country that shut down for 2 years?

Good, I don’t feel sorry for any of them. They support the politicians that allow such behavior.