Where do the stolen goods go?

[Bogie]

Yeah, the cops here don't come for anything less than a violent crime. And, of course, they are usually too late to do anything.
 
Was talking to the loss prevention guy from Home Depot yesterday. Said that they're also concerned about their employees being injured by the thieves, so...
 
Used to be, the thieves would have stairway accidents. No more.
 
I think I'm in the wrong business.

[MechAg94]

I think police declining to respond is a symptom more than a cause.  Police know those people aren't seeing any significant punishment.  They know people voted for this stuff.  They know if they go too far responding to it, they can get prosecuted and have their own lives destroyed. 

I guess I hate automatically blaming the police for this.  IMO, this sits at the feet of the prosecutors and judges and politicians. 

[Bogie]

Yeah - KG won't do anything, so the STL cops are just sitting back.
 
But you can bet she'd do something if I whacked one of the miscreants with my cane.

[French G.]

I like to think I have a pretty good nose for sketchy deals thanks to 25 years of private meets to buy and sell. Helps that most of it was guns and I wanted all the details. Even met a guy at midnight in a gravel pit to buy a Randall knife. It was where he worked even if it did look like a Sopranos unhappy ending. But I stay far away from anything the least bit fishy in terms of where the product came from.

[Boomhauer]

Yeah, the cops here don't come for anything less than a violent crime. And, of course, they are usually too late to do anything.
 
Was talking to the loss prevention guy from Home Depot yesterday. Said that they're also concerned about their employees being injured by the thieves, so...
 
Used to be, the thieves would have stairway accidents. No more.
 
I think I'm in the wrong business.

Father in law was a store manager for Home Depot from 89 to 07. He said caught shoplifters used to  sometimes slip and bang their head against the endcap racks on the way to the front of the store to meet the cops. Said the clumsy bastards sometimes could end up hitting every one. Then they’d slip and bang their head on the cruiser roof on the way into the backseat.

Now? If an employee even has a thought of stopping a thief they’d be fired.

[Bogie]

I asked the local CVS manager one day if he had a way of erasing the security stuff if a shoplifter did something like trip over my cane on the way out the door... That got a smile...