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I'm not familiar with that video.
Yep, edited.It was YOUR link
Oh really? Can you provide a link showing that the Minneapolis police budget decreased in 2020?
This is really bizarre. You're usually one of the main media critics in this forum. But now you see a story that supports your feelings, and suddenly you don't care about the facts?
Again, I was quoting the article in the link that YOU posted. Seriously, wtf? Were you hoping no one would click the link or actually read the article?
What kind of proof would you like? A copy of a law that says vehicle thefts are officially decriminalized? Because you wont get that.
I think the main issue is that you seem to be deliberately conflating car theft (which is down 66% over the past 30 years) with car jacking, and then using the decriminalization of the former to justify performative outrage over the latter.
I was responding to claims that lawmakers decriminalized auto theft/theft from autos/carjacking. So yeah, I was hoping for a copy of a law. That's what decriminalization means.
Car thefts and carjackings are both up in recent times. Who gives a crap about 30 years ago?
He said politicians which I didnt take to mean lawmakers. I took it to mean prosecutors and elected judges.
A lot of people can't afford car insurance right now, let alone the deductible. Plus this guy used his car as his primary source of income. I would just encourage people to donate to the GoFundMe page setup for him. I hope his family can find some peace over time after this tragic loss.
Your very first post conflated thefts and carjacking, and then claimed that an unspecified "trend" had started years ago.
So the program decrease the rate of items stolen from cars but the theft of cars increase dramatically. And why would anyone think that’s an improvement and no it didn’t decriminalize theft? What am I missing?
I pointed out on the board back in 2017 about this very thing growing in popularity.
And it is impossible to fully separate car thefts and carjackings these days. Take the original incident I posted. The guy wasn't in the car when they tried to steal it. He was returning to the car. He saw them in the car and tried to yank her out of the car. That's why he is on the outside of the car like that.
See, you posted a lot of good stuff up until this point. Save the drama.parasaurolophus said:
I know its been awful in Chicago. Thery are even waiting for the deliveries and stealing them off the car trailers now. Why are they up? I haven't heard any reason as to why.
In other words, the obviousness of your position is so obvious you shouldn't have to back it up?
No. It's that people like you and sho nuff are constantly calling for cites, etc., in bad faith. I've decided to let you all look it up and save me the time.
Please dont lump me in with Sho, I don't constantly call for citation. I rarely do it - I'm more than capable of googling for myself.
Tool lefty? Lobbing insults now? Be better.
moleculo said:
You could have just said cars worth less than $950 are being stolen at such a rate in California that it deserves national attention.
Oops. Please accept my apologies. That was supposed to be edited. I was typing angry about generalities on the board and then I edited it. My bad. I'm sorry about that. You're not that, moleculo.
What kind of car can you buy for $950 or less? Considering how few cars there are in running order that you can buy for that, I don't think the law changed much as far as the number of people charged for felony auto theft.
