14Red
Well-known member
Absolutely. The stores are scared to get sued if they try to stop someone, and you're right, the jails are overcrowded with violent offenders and other bigger crimes.In my opinion, a bigger reason why theft is so high in some areas is because there's no repercussions even when the police are called and press charges. Unless it's a felony amount you aren't even getting arrested because jails don't have room for lower level crimes. You can go plead guilty and you'll get probation and told not to do it again. Same punishment over and over. If you see there's no punishment then why not?
But here the thing, you HAVE to get people in these communities to see what they are doing to themselves. There's always been this thought int he poorer communities to "do what you have to, to survive". Almost making it ok? Why is this belief espoused? I mean the excuse that there are not jobs is gone. There are jobs jobs jobs everywhere. If you don't have money, you have a spending problem, not an earning problem. We have way too many people today who wake up with nothing to do that day. They are on some kind of assistance where they don't feel the need to work. That needs to end.