What happens when you "decriminalize" robbery? Steal less than $1000, and the cops will ignore it. Pretty soon they are ignoring all retail theft, until it gets out of hand.
From Not the Bee we get a story of organized crime, 21st Century style, out of Los Angeles. Watch: Police in LA raid warehouse FILLED with shoplifted goods
This is a level of organized crime we thought was gone from the world after the days of Al Capone. But it's still alive and well in LA.
That sounds organized. As does a "warehouse" filled with 100s of thousands of dollars worth of stolen goods. Actually it was the backroom of a relatively small market in LA, and not a warehouse. (Watch the embedded video at the link; it is less than 2 minutes.)
Welcome to Los Angeles, a nice place to live.
That is unless you're a normal American who cares about theft and organized crime being king of the city. Then it's not so nice.
This particular warehouse is connected to thefts in Arizona, Nevada, and California.
The same politicians and pundits who thought it was a good idea to treat retail theft as not-a-crime, denounce the eeeevil corporations, when they decide that they can't make money in a city and close down because of law and order problems. Or maybe that should be the lack of law and order. They really do want to have it both ways.
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