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Crime in Dallas County is fixin' to plummet!

Checkerboard Strangler said:
But it would be helpful if states would enact more policies that make it easier for supermarkets to donate food that would normally go bye bye in the dumpster despite being perfectly okay.
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What is difficult about this now?

How do laws stop donations?????????? They don't here in NY.
 
Don't worry Luther. I doubt any homeless are going to steal anything from your accounting office.
 
MovingPictures said:
They didn't say that shop lifters won't be prosecuted. The DA said that people who are clearly destitute who steal items like diapers and food, will not be prosecuted, so get your panties out of their wad.

I live in Dallas and I've heard the DA speak about this.
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I damned sure didn't see that in the letter. But even so, stealing diapers and formula is still stealing. If they really want to help out the poor then the county can provide that stuff at food banks or something. Letting people steal the stuff is just asking for trouble.
 
noonereal said:
What is difficult about this now?

How do laws stop donations?????????? They don't here in NY.
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There's an oversupply of litigation that forces a lot of supermarkets to throw out food unnecessarily.
 
Bullseye said:
Read them again; look for reasons you might want to be careful walking.
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I couldn't find any.

You were just making a threat. :mrgreen:
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Don't worry Luther. I doubt any homeless are going to steal anything from your accounting office.
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I've actually had issues with homeless camping out in my office. Well, at least with them trying to camp out. We have also had a few break ins and two attempted armed robberies in my complex over the 15 or so years I've been here.
 
MovingPictures said:
I did, why would I need to "watch my step"?
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Maybe it was a coded message about poop piles in San Francisco, or it might be he's trying to act like a tough guy telling you that you better mind your P's and Q's. But I suspect he's saying you're going to step in poop more often now.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Then it should be clear.
I had a pretty clear idea of the law back when I lived there. The cops made it clear that I would be within my rights if I shot someone stealing my stuff. Glad I never had to, but I would have.
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For some unknown reason, the Texas law changes "during the nighttime".

Texas is different. In Texas, one can use deadly force not just to protect a person, but also to protect personal property, including to “retrieve stolen property at night,” during “criminal mischief in the nighttime” and even to prevent someone who is fleeing immediately after a theft during the night or a burglary or robbery, so long as the individual “reasonably” thinks the property cannot be protected by other means. This law recently garnered attention when lawyers used the provision to defend a man acquitted in the deadly shooting of an escort who refused to have sex with him. In other cases, the law has been the basis for not pressing charges against individuals who shoot and kill suspected car burglars, and an individual suspected of stealing copper wiring from a car. It is worth noting that some other states authorize the use of force to protect personal property, but not deadly force.
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Three Self-Defense Laws That Could Be Even Worse Than Stand Your Ground – ThinkProgress
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Don't worry Luther. I doubt any homeless are going to steal anything from your accounting office.
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Yeah, he's so above all of those homeless and certainly never broke the law in his life!
 
Lutherf said:
I've actually had issues with homeless camping out in my office. Well, at least with them trying to camp out. We have also had a few break ins and two attempted armed robberies in my complex over the 15 or so years I've been here.
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Wait, you're in Arizona? You have even better gun laws than Texas.
 
noonereal said:
what they need to do is decriminalize crap that has no business being criminalized.
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Trespassing and theft have been considered crimes for quite some time and are likely to remain so.
 
MovingPictures said:
Under the new law people who steal diapers and food for their families, who are clearly poor, are simply made to return the items, and directed to services to obtain those items lawfully. :rolleyes:

If you try to steal a TV or something, you still go to jail for that. But people in hardship situations are now shown some compassion, much to the anger of people like yourself.
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Up to 750 bucks is one hell of a lot of diapers and food. These days TV's are cheap you can get a nice one for far less than 750. This is bull****. Food pantries abound especially in large cities like Dallas. There are all kinds of government aid for the poor especially in a large city like Dallas. Again this is bull****.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Wait, you're in Arizona? You have even better gun laws than Texas.
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Which is why they were "attempted" armed robberies.

For one of them the woman who was attacked just told the guy pointing a gun at her to go away and she ran off. The other one the guy decided he wasn't going to stick around when two of us drew on him.
 
noonereal said:
How, where, why?


Give me some info so I can Google what you are speaking to please.

Thanks
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How do I phrase it??

"Why can't supermarkets just give away food that they throw out?"

Try that. All I know is, at one low period in my life (drug addiction) I experimented with dumpster diving and they made mention of the fact that the store is liable if I get sick off their food, even though they tossed it.
That was MANY MANY years ago. Nowadays most supermarket dumpsters are locked or otherwise secured so you can't even get to the food anyway.

I just know that stores aren't generally allowed to give away food that is marked for disposal except in rare instances.
Maybe it is starting to change, I don't know the details.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I couldn't imagine trying to get by without my tools.
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Now that's a fair reply, I think. Yeah, I don't know exactly what I'd do there, but I sure as hell wouldn't be giving them up.

My hesitancy to shoot, besides not wanting to injure or kill someone, is due to my own self-preservation. I'd have to live with that the rest of my life, and I'd hate to have any regrets. So I'd much rather chase someone off, than resort to lethal force if at all possible. Of course I'd defend my wife & kids in a heartbeat, without batting an eye.
 
Lutherf said:
Which is why they were "attempted" armed robberies.

For one of them the woman who was attacked just told the guy pointing a gun at her to go away and she ran off. The other one the guy decided he wasn't going to stick around when two of us drew on him.
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So what's the problem then?
You act like crime should be 100% eradicated or something by merely getting rid of liberals, BLAMMO, all the crime just disappears because libtards disappeared.

You know what? Adulting is a contact sport, you're going to see crime. It's always been a problem and it's always going to BE a problem, and you live in a CONSERVATIVE STATE so you cannot actually BLAME liberals, can you?
No, you CAN'T. You have Joe Arpaio, the so called "Toughest Sheriff in America".

Now quit complaining. If someone breaks into your shop, shoot em.
 
While it is a good point that persecution for drugs is usually a waste of legal resources and bail does need reform the other measures are ridiculous and will just lead to people being encouraged to do them. This is what happens when you elect persecutors.
 
Chomsky said:
Now that's a fair reply, I think. Yeah, I don't know exactly what I'd do there, but I sure as hell wouldn't be giving them up.

My hesitancy to shoot, besides not wanting to injure or kill someone, is due to my own self-preservation. I'd have to live with that the rest of my life, and I'd hate to have any regrets. So I'd much rather chase someone off, than resort to lethal force if at all possible. Of course I'd defend my wife & kids in a heartbeat, without batting an eye.
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I assume that someone willing to take away my ability to earn a living would also be willing to shoot me to do it - so I would "steal" that opportunity from them without hesitation.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
So what's the problem then?
You act like crime should be 100% eradicated or something by merely getting rid of liberals, BLAMMO, all the crime just disappears because libtards disappeared.

You know what? Adulting is a contact sport, you're going to see crime. It's always been a problem and it's always going to BE a problem, and you live in a CONSERVATIVE STATE so you cannot actually BLAME liberals, can you?
No, you CAN'T. You have Joe Arpaio, the so called "Toughest Sheriff in America".

Now quit complaining. If someone breaks into your shop, shoot em.
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Shooting someone because they stole goods or services is illegal. It's illegal in Arizona and it's illegal in Texas. I figure you're making some kind of joke but it really isn't funny.

When it comes to liberals and idiot policies, allowing minor crime inevitably ends up being a DETRIMENT to public safety. The community pays taxes to, among other things, keep the city safe. When the people tasked to do that job choose not to then they really need to be replaced.
 
Lutherf said:
Shooting someone because they stole goods or services is illegal. It's illegal in Arizona and it's illegal in Texas. I figure you're making some kind of joke but it really isn't funny.

When it comes to liberals and idiot policies, allowing minor crime inevitably ends up being a DETRIMENT to public safety. The community pays taxes to, among other things, keep the city safe. When the people tasked to do that job choose not to then they really need to be replaced.
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I don't think it is illegal. You need to back up your arguments.
I am not joking, I think you guys' habit of blaming all crime on liberals is a joke.
And by you talking about the crime happening in your town, you've proved that such a habit IS a joke.
You aren't being run by liberals, you don't have liberal judges, you don't have liberal sheriffs and you don't have a liberal mayor or governor. Thus liberals are not running your town or your state and yet you're still experiencing CRIME, a fair bit of crime, apparently.

I guess next time you jump into a thread bashing California, I will have to remind you of this post.
You can count on it.
 
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