Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony
by jollyllama on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:10PM
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In the thread, they describe how the company waited until they had recorded multiple instances of theft by the suspect until the total amount of stolen goods had exceeded the threshold for a felony.
Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony
by mrguyorama on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:34PM
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This is the kind of work and effort you have to put in when the legal system stops caring about small dollar value theft. This isn't some anti-california thing either, I don't believe the cops when they say they don't go after small dollar crimes because of the DA because cops having been ignoring small time crime my entire life. They're just too lazy.
When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw I don't want to".
Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony
by handoflixue on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:50PM
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"Taking a report" doesn't do anything to solve the crime; it's simply paperwork for things like insurance, to prove that a crime happened.
The complaint is exactly that they "don't prioritize investigating it", because that is the point where police are actually providing a useful service.
Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony
by felixr on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:03PM
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> When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw don't want to".
I would probably see it more like low priority bugs in an issue tracker. They only get done when there's nothing with higher priority or someone takes a person personal interest.
Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony
by alpineidyll3 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:18PM
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A family members identity was just stolen by a low level medical records employee. This woman is passing bad checks with a fake ID and her identity. Daily she is getting called about it, and it's luck she hasn't been arrested or needed credit.
The police will do nothing, because our governments are responsive to nothing because they don't have to be. Safe seats and gerrymandering have rotted out Democracy.
Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony
by jollyllama on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:16AM
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The perverse incentive here is that if the legal system doesn't do their job, they will still have on-demand access to the dystopian corporate surveillance structure built to cover their negligence.
Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony
by khaki54 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:17PM
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Screw these people. Low ethics, theft raises prices over time.
Although these self checkout machines reduce low skill employment opportunities, I think helped by reducing prices to a small degree
.. at least until people began to feel entitled to steal
When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw I don't want to".
The complaint is exactly that they "don't prioritize investigating it", because that is the point where police are actually providing a useful service.
I would probably see it more like low priority bugs in an issue tracker. They only get done when there's nothing with higher priority or someone takes a person personal interest.
The police will do nothing, because our governments are responsive to nothing because they don't have to be. Safe seats and gerrymandering have rotted out Democracy.
Although these self checkout machines reduce low skill employment opportunities, I think helped by reducing prices to a small degree .. at least until people began to feel entitled to steal