How do you guys feel about this?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...icago-neighbors-confronting-police/936516002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...icago-neighbors-confronting-police/936516002/
One of the things the people in the video say to the police is "Go put this truck in your own neighborhood and arrest your kids." They seem to regard it as a trap for the children of the neighborhood. I don't think they feel sorry for adults who steal from it, but see it as a way to get the kids in that neighborhood ensnared in the justice system.I feel two things (I didn't watch the video and briefly read the link.)
1. Semi entrapment - although I can't say if this is or not - I'm no expert.
2. Don't ****ing steal. This is a principle everyone knows is wrong. Granted, this is simple to say, but it still holds water.
Who paid for the Nikes?It borders on entrapment. Technically, I don't think it is, but it's close.
But, it's pretty messed up they put a truck full of Nike shoes in a poor urban neighborhood in the south side of Chicago. The residents have a legit complaint.
Who paid for the Nikes?
So it is my fault and i create crime if i park my bike in the black neighbourhood to visit supermarket etc? By your logic, i and my family are like crime syndicate - my bike was stolen when i visited a supermarket ('88 or something like that), and we have experienced several burglaries, too. Lost tools, like drilling machine, chainsaw etc.It's just bad police work. Police should see themselves as a part of the community and strive to improve it by reducing crime. Not creating crime where it otherwise wouldn't exist. This also fuels the massive distrust of police already apparent in these poverty stricken communities.
Did you intend for your bike to be stolen when you parked it outside the grocery store? No? Then it's not really the same thing, is it.So it is my fault and i create crime if i park my bike in the black neighbourhood to visit supermarket etc? By your logic, i and my family are like crime syndicate - my bike was stolen when i visited a supermarket ('88 or something like that), and we have experienced several burglaries, too. Lost tools, like drilling machine, chainsaw etc.
I am pretty sure that nothing like that would not happen in Japan or other countries where kids are raised with the attitude that stealing is bad. And how can that be poor neighbourhood, if people can live in private houses which seem to have nicely built unlike tenements in Russia or even in Estonia. My parents earned about 300 roubles during the Soviet time (beer was about 0,5 roubles, one USD in the black market was between 50-100 roubles) and never-ever would i have thought that robbing something would be kind of cool idea.
No, i do not like, when my bike will be stolen. However, that does not excuse others to steal it.Did you intend for your bike to be stolen when you parked it outside the grocery store? No? Then it's not really the same thing, is it.