This public announcement from the LAPD:
We are sharing this community alert in an effort to increase awareness of a series of robberies occurring in the City of Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/mE5vVfCZZo
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) November 8, 2021
“Do not resist the robbery suspects; cooperate and comply with their demands.”
“Do not chase or follow the robbery suspects out of your place of business or home. Leave the job of catching the suspects to the police.”
I wonder if those suggestions have anything to do with the first part “an increase in violent street robberies.”
I think so.
Also, the police have have given up on their job of catching robbery suspects since the state won’t prosecute or punish them.
The response to an attempted violent robbery should be copious amount of high velocity lead. Unfortunately in LA County, that’s not possible.
No right to the tools of self defense and impotent police have turned every law abiding citizen into a victim waiting to be preyed upon.
Hence announcements like this.
Where are Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner, Officer Bill Gannon when you need them? Once about a time in the last century LA prided itself on it’s LA and order.
They were fired as enforcers of white male patriarchy, right before their department was defunded anyway.
Joe is now chief of a little town in Idaho, and Bill is deputy sheriff in South Dakota. Both are doing quite well, with lower blood pressure to boot.
It would just be easier to have everyone put everything they own on the street so they could just take it.
Actually, except for the “give them what they want” part, it’s pretty good advice. It emphasizes situational awareness, which is a good thing, right? Not paying attention and displaying expensive bling is what got the guy in Beverly Hills robbed of a $10,000 watch, and, as far as “don’t follow or chase,” if you do, you’re setting yourself up for an assault by the offender or an ambush by his running buddies. (Always remember: Crooks have more friends than you do, because they always have money and drugs.)
Yeah, I’d love to see more proactive policing, but since prosecutors refuse to file proper charges and judges release everyone on their own recognizance, and any copper who actually arrests someone is risking his livelihood, his home, and his freedom, FIDO policing is the wave of the foreseeable future. Especially in The Golden State.
It may be small minded of me but I don’t trust that someone willing to steal the bread out of my mouth, the fruits of my toil or break into my house, to hold my or my family’s life sacred. I must assume if you are willing to do that, you hold my life worthless. It’s misguided to trust the robber not to harm you. Would I shoot someone stealing my dog crap covered shoes off the back porch? Of course not but to steal them out of my house or off my feet, that a whole ‘nother thing.
Precisely. Armed robbery is threat of death or grave harm, therefore justifies defense by deadly force. (At least in civilized jurisdictions.)
Exactly! Which is why robbery used to be a Capital Offense before the RINOs and demonrats took over.