Monday, October 12, 2020

Really Slate?

A rather telling headline and article from Slate today:  

 
Yep, really.  Apparently having the temerity to call the police when someone commits a crime in your presence should make you "pay".
 
In short, Slate is advocating that victims of crimes not call the cops, or there will be consequences.
 
Thar's not threatening in any way now is it?

Kinda a more genteel "Snitches get stitches" approach to crime, neh?
 
Again, Slate is stating that the owners of a business where a clerk properly called the police on someone committing a crime should "pay" for daring to do so. 

Apparently having demonstrations outside your store and it being vandalized with graffiti, and getting threats is insufficiently paying for the dreadful act of calling the cops on a criminal with said criminal resisting arrest and things going downhill from there.

There's also the minor interesting issue of a mosque being in the store's basement and the racial conflict and the animosity of the existence of an Arab-owned store operating in a predominantly Black neighborhood - and the article goes into  a rather detailed look at all the crime that occurs around the store including drug activity.

It's an interesting look at the progressive mindset on crime - the victim is to be blamed for not simply taking it, and the criminal is not the one responsible for the outcome of his criminal acts.

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