Our poor Communities Are Eating Themselves

[Rightguide]

That, sadly, is an issue. I tried the home delivery thing to and the quality of the fresh fruits and veges sucked. On the other hand, if you're in a food desert, you takes what you can get....

On the other hand, EBT card people gnerally don't seem to be big on fresh fruit and veges anyhow.

No more using your EBT card for nail and hair services, fattening snacks are next.

 

[Rightguide]

Of course it is


*Democratic

If you arrest more people, you need more resources up and down the chain. You need more officers to do the patrolling. You need more space for jailing additional criminals. You need more prosecutors to prosecuted the cases. You even need more judges to handle the additional load.

Law enforcement has always tilted towards violent and extreme criminal acts to properly assign resources to the most heinous crimes. If you want to add theft to priorities, then you need to dedicate resourcing to that.

In Democrat run cities, there is no desire to prosecute these people, even with the available resources.

 

[ll74]

No more using your EBT card for nail and hair services, fattening snacks are next.

So people who are out of work aren't afforded any amount to look presentable for seeking work. Cut your own hair heathen!

That sounds fun.

 

[glamorilla]

If you want more police to patrol stores and more arrests and more prosecutions, regardless of where, regardless of who - you need more resources to accomplish it.

Sending in the fed doesn't cut it.

how about holding those responsible for committing crimes?

 

[ll74]

In Democrat run cities, there is no desire to prosecute these people, even with the available resources.

*Democratic

I get that is your opinion.

But you fail to recognize that more resources will be needed to fully execute your plan. Blaming Democrats for that is irrelevant

 

[glamorilla]

So people who are out of work aren't afforded any amount to look presentable for seeking work. Cut your own hair heathen!

That sounds fun.

that's nobody's responsibility except your own.

what's next? wanting someone to cut up your dinner and spoon feed it to you?

 

[JohnEngelman]

I never claimed to have a solution to a very complex problem. I asked you for you're solution since you were posting as if you had all the answers.

I have already recommended the Soviet prison system under Stalin. Most of the people in Stalin's slave labor camps were political prisoners and did not deserve to be in prison at all. Nevertheless, good old Uncle Joe ran his prison system at a profit to the government. In the Soviet Uinon prison labor prepared the Soviet Union for the German invasion; it sustained the Soviet Union during the German invasion; it helped the Soviet Union recover from the German invasion.

 

[ll74]

how about holding those responsible for committing crimes?

What part of more resources are you missing here?

Currently, there are not enough police resources to monitor every store for shoplifting. You need more...there are lots of stores. Do you want homicides and assault cases to take a back seat?

Additionally, the prosecutors are already backlogged with other cases, many of which are for more heinous crimes. Do you want those crimes to take a back seat to shoplifting?

Punishment requires police, prosecutors and jail space.....all of which are already stretched thin. Are you wanting to hire more and build more so you can hold them accountable...or do you just think there is a magical wand that makes all of that happen?

 

[Rightguide]

So people who are out of work aren't afforded any amount to look presentable for seeking work. Cut your own hair heathen!

That sounds fun.

Huge numbers of these people are not seeking work. They live off of what they get from the government and what they can steal.

 

[ll74]

that's nobody's responsibility except your own.

So cut your own hair

Got it.

what's next? wanting someone to cut up your dinner and spoon feed it to you?

Im sure that your approach will lead to people getting jobs and moving off of welfare...huzzah!

 

[glamorilla]

What part of more resources are you missing here?

Currently, there are not enough police resources to monitor every store for shoplifting. You need more...there are lots of stores. Do you want homicides and assault cases to take a back seat?

Additionally, the prosecutors are already backlogged with other cases, many of which are for more heinous crimes. Do you want those crimes to take a back seat to shoplifting?

Punishment requires police, prosecutors and jail space.....all of which are already stretched thin. Are you wanting to hire more and build more so you can hold them accountable...or do you just think there is a magical wand that makes all of that happen?

I think that if shoplifters know they're going to face charges it will stop.

Gosh why aren't there enough police resources?

 

[ll74]

Huge numbers of these people are not seeking work.

How many? Give me specific numbers

They live off of what they get from the government and what they can steal.

That is your opinion based on your bias...not actual facts

 

[ll74]

I think that if shoplifters know they're going to face charges it will stop.

So you want to hire more cops and prosecutors.

Got it.

Gosh why aren't there enough police resources?

Because the budget continues to be focused on more heinous crimes such as homicide and assault

 

[glamorilla]

So you want to hire more cops and prosecutors.

Got it.


Because the budget continues to be focused on more heinous crimes such as homicide and assault

I'd like the prosecutors to start doing their job.

 

[ll74]

I'd like the prosecutors to start doing their job.

They are doing their jobs

 

[DraggonStone]

Swift punishment under the law. Retail theft isn’t just a crime against a store, it’s a crack in the foundation of society. When people learn they can steal without consequence, discipline breaks down, laws lose their weight, and the idea of shared responsibility vanishes. Enforcing the law isn’t about being harsh, it’s about teaching that rules matter, that order protects everyone, and that without accountability, communities pay the price in shuttered businesses, higher costs, and eroded trust. Let’s be clear, when retail theft is brushed off or excused, it doesn’t just empty shelves, it rots the very fabric of society. The real danger comes when ignorance of the law turns into a family heirloom, with parents teaching kids that stealing is a “right.” That isn’t poverty, it’s cultural decay. A community that treats crime as entitlement isn’t oppressed, it’s self-destructing. The only antidote is discipline: enforce the law with real consequences, break the cycle of generational lawlessness, and stop pretending that theft is anything but theft.

Mass murder and mass incarceration are simplistic solutions to a complex problem. Unless you can offer a solution that considers that it will require a massive increase in taxes, you are also wasting my time. The problem has nothing to do with liberalism. It's about money.

 

[glamorilla]

They are doing their jobs

I don't think they are but hey...free haircuts will solve everything.

 

[ll74]

I don't think they are but hey...free haircuts will solve everything.

They are prosecuting cases. The majority typically have a huge backlog....which is why cases are prioritized and also the reason plea deals are made.

But if you're simple minded, I'm sure you think they can magically prosecuted all cases that are important to you while also prosecuting cases that aren't.

 

[glamorilla]

They are prosecuting cases. The majority typically have a huge backlog....which is why cases are prioritized and also the reason plea deals are made.

But if you're simple minded, I'm sure you think they can magically prosecuted all cases that are important to you while also prosecuting cases that aren't.

and they're doing such a good job with it groceries and pharmacies are closing down in record numbers...

 

[ll74]

and they're doing such a good job with it groceries and pharmacies are closing down in record numbers...

Lol

 

[Rightguide]

I have already recommended the Soviet prison system under Stalin. Most of the people in Stalin's slave labor camps were political prisoners and did not deserve to be in prison at all. Nevertheless, good old Uncle Joe ran his prison system at a profit to the government. In the Soviet Uinon prison labor prepared the Soviet Union for the German invasion; it sustained the Soviet Union during the German invasion; it helped the Soviet Union recover from the German invasion.

Have you read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago?

 

[Lance_Castro]

I'd like the prosecutors to start doing their job.

The USA already has the biggest prison population in the world.

 

[ll74]

The USA already has the biggest prison population in the world.

They want more! Homeless people, shoplifters.....throw them all in there...the privatize the prisons to The Trump Org

 

[glamorilla]

The USA already has the biggest prison population in the world.

its a good thing my parents taught me not to steal. If I end up in prison I want it to be an upscale white collar prison with rich old men.

wait...teaching people that stealing is bad...who would have thought?

 

[DraggonStone]

So my simplistic solution to address crime, as some would wish, without raising your taxes, is to give something up. Something like tax breaks for billionaires or subsidies to oil companies.