Making DC great again.

[Caveira]

25 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Sure…

I googled retail theft twitter.   What part of the content do you disagree with.   That it is cool to have to lock down huge portions of stores because theft is rampant?    The idea that organized teams rob these stores in the regular because they know they won’t be charged or arrested ?    You’re concerned with the wrong thing.   Your defending third world criminal activity that should not be rampant in American cities   

and I still Didn’t even go back and see what tweet your referencing  as the content I see daily in Chicago and other blue cities when I travel 

[Caveira]

47 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

If you think shoplifting is the main reason grocery prices have increased, you’re more stupid than I thought.

And let me guess, you don’t know who Ian Miles Cheong is?  (he’s a troll that doesn’t even live in this country)

I bet this didn’t drift up prices $0.01 at Louis vatton.   They got away with $250k worth of stuff.    Maybe they’ll get charged with 19 felonies and just get released and not punished.

 

[Caveira]

44 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Sure…

There are consequences.  It drives businesses away.   Which drives down tax revenue.   People like you who are like who cares.  It’s just a bag.  Or simple theft are a huge part of the problem. 
 

 

[Caveira]

47 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Sure…

The black and browns you pretend to care about have no where to get groceries in many neighborhoods.   It’s cause of theft or racist capitalists.  I  can’t  remember?

 

[1032004]

59 minutes ago, Caveira said:

I googled retail theft twitter.   What part of the content do you disagree with.   That it is cool to have to lock down huge portions of stores because theft is rampant?    The idea that organized teams rob these stores in the regular because they know they won’t be charged or arrested ?    You’re concerned with the wrong thing.   Your defending third world criminal activity that should not be rampant in American cities   

and I still Didn’t even go back and see what tweet your referencing  as the content I see daily in Chicago and other blue cities when I travel 

Ok just so I understand.

If someone agrees with you, it doesn’t matter where they live.

If someone doesn’t agree with you, you will try to disqualify their opinion based on where they live.

Do I have that right?

 

And I did point out the main part I disagreed with.  Blaming rising grocery prices on shoplifting.   That’s maybe like 5% of it at most 

[Caveira]

30 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Ok just so I understand.

If someone agrees with you, it doesn’t matter where they live.

If someone doesn’t agree with you, you will try to disqualify their opinion based on where they live.

Do I have that right?

 

And I did point out the main part I disagreed with.  Blaming rising grocery prices on shoplifting.   That’s maybe like 5% of it at most 

So you care to argue about global inflation and other nonsense vs black and brown people not having grocery stores in many neighborhoods because of theft.    Your delusional.  Theft is huge.   Why else are grocery stores closing in black and brown neighborhoods and staying open in the nice hoods.   What’s the difference between the two ?

Chicago specific data:

2021 Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Losses: Chicago's ORC was part of the state burden—Illinois lost $4 billion due to retail theft, as previously noted Crain's Chicago BusinessABC7 Chicago.

Rise in Retail Theft Incidents:

From 2020 to 2023, retail theft incidents in Chicago rose dramatically—up 79% in two years and 98% over three years.

In 2022, Illinois retailers (including Chicago) lost nearly $3 billion in revenue to theft.

2022 Loss Estimate: A Capital One report cited by the Illinois Retail Merchants Association pegged retail theft losses in Illinois at around $2.9 billion in 2022.

Spike in 2024 Shoplifting: Chicago’s shoplifting rate jumped 46% in 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.

Edited 15 hours ago by Caveira

[1032004]

37 minutes ago, Caveira said:

So you care to argue about global inflation and other nonsense vs black and brown people not having grocery stores in many neighborhoods because of theft.    Your delusional.  Theft is huge.   Why else are grocery stores closing in black and brown neighborhoods and staying open in the nice hoods.   What’s the difference between the two ?

 

Income is a major one…

[red viking]

1 hour ago, Caveira said:

So you care to argue about global inflation and other nonsense vs black and brown people not having grocery stores in many neighborhoods because of theft.    Your delusional.  Theft is huge.   Why else are grocery stores closing in black and brown neighborhoods and staying open in the nice hoods.   What’s the difference between the two ?

Chicago specific data:

2021 Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Losses: Chicago's ORC was part of the state burden—Illinois lost $4 billion due to retail theft, as previously noted Crain's Chicago BusinessABC7 Chicago.

Rise in Retail Theft Incidents:

From 2020 to 2023, retail theft incidents in Chicago rose dramatically—up 79% in two years and 98% over three years.

In 2022, Illinois retailers (including Chicago) lost nearly $3 billion in revenue to theft.

2022 Loss Estimate: A Capital One report cited by the Illinois Retail Merchants Association pegged retail theft losses in Illinois at around $2.9 billion in 2022.

Spike in 2024 Shoplifting: Chicago’s shoplifting rate jumped 46% in 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.

Well, people do steal more when they are struggling to get by. Are the winger-bscked medicaid, food assistance  and public school cuts going to alleviate this? 

Edited 14 hours ago by red viking

[Offthemat]

7 minutes ago, red viking said:

Well, people do steal more when they are struggling to get by. Are the winger-bscked medicaid, food assistance  and public school cuts going to alleviate this? 

Cite ‘cuts.’

[JimmySpeaks]

4 hours ago, Caveira said:

No idea who miles Chong is.   

That’s a new one for me too. 

[JimmySpeaks]

2 hours ago, 1032004 said:

Ok just so I understand.

If someone agrees with you, it doesn’t matter where they live.

If someone doesn’t agree with you, you will try to disqualify their opinion based on where they live.

Do I have that right?

 

And I did point out the main part I disagreed with.  Blaming rising grocery prices on shoplifting.   That’s maybe like 5% of it at most 

Who cares what it has to do with grocery prices?  It’s a crime. Well in most places it’s a crime. 

[Caveira]

1 minute ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Who cares what it has to do with grocery prices?  It’s a crime. Well in most places it’s a crime. 

The crime apologists should be forced to live In the cities they blindly defend In the name of their ideology. 

[JimmySpeaks]

Just now, Caveira said:

The crime apologists should be forced to live In the cities they blindly defend In the name of their ideology. 

Agree. And they can all take in some unlawful immigrants and pay for their every need. 

[red viking]

2 minutes ago, JimmySpeaks said:

Agree. And they can all take in some unlawful immigrants and pay for their every need. 

What need? They all work. Heck, half the kids even work, unlike you. 

[1032004]

3 hours ago, Caveira said:

I bet this didn’t drift up prices $0.01 at Louis vatton.   They got away with $250k worth of stuff.    Maybe they’ll get charged with 19 felonies and just get released and not punished.

 

Can you eat Louis Vitton handbags?

[Caveira]

5 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Can you eat Louis Vitton handbags?

Why would you support this behavior?

[JimmySpeaks]

7 minutes ago, red viking said:

What need? They all work. Heck, half the kids even work, unlike you. 

They work at getting free stuff all right. 

[1032004]

Just now, Caveira said:

Why would you support this behavior?

I’m not

[JimmySpeaks]

8 minutes ago, red viking said:

What need? They all work. Heck, half the kids even work, unlike you. 

I work really hard at paying myself

[JimmySpeaks]

1 hour ago, red viking said:

Well, people do steal more when they are struggling to get by. Are the winger-bscked medicaid, food assistance  and public school cuts going to alleviate this? 

There are some prominent stores in the area I live in that are allowing police officers to have an office in their buildings.  Brilliant idea. 

[Caveira]

57 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

I’m not

Trivializing a woman getting robbed because they only caught a 19 time felon with her packages he stole from her home and making fun of Louis  vatton getting robbed for 250k is a strange way of showing it boss.    

Edited 11 hours ago by Caveira

[1032004]

3 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Trivializing a woman getting robbed because they only caught a 19 time felon with her packages he stole from her home and making fun of Louis  vatton getting robbed for 250k is a strange way of showing it boss.    

I thought we were talking about groceries

[Caveira]

1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

I thought we were talking about groceries

You trivialized a woman getting robbed.   And don’t seem to give a shyte grocery stores are closing because of theft.  

[GreatWhiteNorth]

6 hours ago, JimmySpeaks said:

There are some prominent stores in the area I live in that are allowing police officers to have an office in their buildings.  Brilliant idea. 

Same here, they were doing that when I was a little kid in the early 1990's.

Probably not so brilliant when you consider that it has been a normal practice for some 30+ years.

But - cool - that ignorant people finally catch up to the very people they are constantly criticizing and then act like they discovered everything themselves.