An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested at a recent roundtable conversation that, in order to combat overpolicing in the community, police should no longer respond to shoplifting claims at large stores such as Wal-Mart, and shouldnt agree to prosecute people caught stealing.
I just dont think that they should be prosecuting cases for people who steal from Wal-Mart. I just dont think that, right? said UW-Madison director of community relations Everett Mitchell. I dont think [with] Target or all them other places, them big box stores that have insurance, they should be using justification, the fact that people steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police practices, right?
Everetts remarks were made Tuesday as part of a UW-Madison panel on the topic of Best Policing Practices. Everett argued that community police shouldnt prioritize enforcing the law, but instead should focus on achieving safety as it is defined by a local community, even if that definition includes allowing some stores to be robbed with impunity.
We have got to a place where we are not longer able to define what safety means for us, he said. It is now being redefined over and over again in terms of what they think we want them to defend for us.
Everett said that police were using high rates of theft at stores as an excuse for excessive policing.
I go to these meetings and thats what they throw up there on the table, Look at where all this crime is happening, at the East Towne and the West Towne Mall, and the Wal-Marts and Targets, thats where crime is happening, thats why we have to focus so much they do that all the time to justify why theyre going to over police our children.
Everett admitted that thanks to his comments, I may never get a job at Wal-Mart.
Those malls again! In other words, police shouldn't go where the crime is, and you should water the sidewalks instead of your grass. Buy food at the hardware store and office supplies at the skating rink.
Disparate Impact! BTW, did you watch the video? This guy is a University administrator? I've heard better English from people begging for change at the liquor store.
That giant water buffalo on the right has obviously suffered the brunt of institutional racism by being forced to endure a steady diet of fried chicken and grape drank around the clock.....how could this happen in America?!
With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic
I knew that it was gum-think just by reading the gum-speak.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. ~ H. L. Mencken
I decided to determine why someone would want to legalize theft by looking at a photo to see if race could explain it. I was not surprised by what I saw.