Don't be a tool of the corpos and the state.
2y 1mon ago by lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/db0 in leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com from i.redd.it
For the shoplifting thing, it depends which store it is. Big chain grocery store? Yeah, I couldn't care less what someone takes. Small single owner shop? Fuck you for stealing from that guy. Those stores struggle enough just trying to compete with the Walmarts of the world.
Stealing food? I didn't see shit.
Absolutely yes, but also, choose your targets. Walmart ain't gonna miss it. The local bodega will.
People who shoplift are only considering a single factor: what's the likelihood this store ends up caring and puts me in jail eventually.
Turns out, plenty of stores will NEVER stop you provided you dont exceed a certain dollar amount or try to walk off with large appliances.
Its not hard to find a stores policy around theft and prevention.
Its a coincidence that big box stores are stolen from more, not a moral thing.
When the food is multiple grocery bags full of steaks I'm a little less inclined to a charitable view.
That said, I'm still not going to do anything about it. Intervening on the behalf of a grocery store is insane, even if I were opposed to what's happening. Not my monkeys, not my circus.
"Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, otherwise we'd get along!"
Riffraff! Street rat! I don't buy that! If only they'd look closer… Would they see a poor boy? No, siree They'd find out there's so much more to me
Wal mart is still the one and only store I used to steal from back in 90’s. Had to wear umbro shorts since they had that webbing in them and then grab a few CDs and beads to make necklaces that I would sell. By the time I got to high school I was over the shop lifting thing.
Much like pirating Nintendo games, it is morally correct to shoplift from Walmart, assuming you have the skill to get away with it.
Plus it was the only way I could get CDs with explicit lyrics like Rage Against the Machine
Most stores don't stop you. The security guards are just there for the police report and a description. That said, if you get recognized coming back to the same store, they will call the cops.
If there's a police report, you didn't get away with it unless you're never going to that store again. Which is probably not usually the case.
Wait, is sleeping in your car illegal???
In Burgerland? Ofc!
Freedom rains!
"Freedom is always the freedom of the rich" – Ayn Rand, I guess
I don't think it's illegal in Germany.
Is that whole sobriety test thing real in the US? Like, stand on one leg and recite the alphabet etc? I've seen it on TV but always thought it was pretty stupid. In the UK the police have breath-tested for drink driving since 1967.
Depends. Smaller townships without regular access to a breathalyzer, yes. Or cops trying to get you to admit that you are intoxicated.
I walked a straight line while touching my nose because the cop smelled alcohol in the car (rightly so, my wife, then gf, was smashed). Took about 10 seconds for him to go "So obviously that's all her, have a good night!".
So yes, it does happen.
Oh they do both. And you can get what they call a DWI (Driving While Impaired) just on the basis of the circus act in some states. So the breath test comes back at say, .037, which is well within the legal limit. The cop can charge you with DWI anyways based on your bad balance.
Forget the bad balance. All the cop has to put in his report is the language they were taught. The suspect had red, glassy eyes when I approached. They might as well drag and drop these statements or just have them written by LLM.
It's real, and it's totally based on the officer's gut feelings. Hell breathalyzers over analyze over 70% of the time. The entirety of the war on drugs and the tools to combat drunk driving are not entirely based in science
tools to combat drunk driving are not entirely based in science
To the point that the accuracy of breathalyzers has been challenged so many times in CA that it's to the point that if the cops in CA have you breathe into a machine and that machine returns a number that would constitute a DUI if that were your BAC then it's a DUI, regardless of what the machine actually does or whether the number in question is actually connected to your real BAC in any way.
It's all really just an excuse by the popo to book you. Which is why you should always ask for the breathalyzer if you really weren't drinking.
Blood test, not breathalyzer.
Huh, didn't know in the field blood tests were a thing. Guess you learn something new everyday. I wonder if those tests are specifically for alcohol or if they also test a variety of other drugs like THC?
They aren't, but they are much more reliable than breathalyzer. Take the ride to the station or the hospital. A cab ride back to your car is cheaper than a DUI
Everyone should know that depending on your jurisdiction, refusal of the breathalyzer can result in automatic six month suspension of license. Regardless of results.
it's real, and it does work pretty well.
We also do the breathalyzer, or blood draws, but those are a little more involved, and if you can't do a field sobriety test then you definitely as hell can't drive a fucking car lmao.
So fuck anyone with mobility problems then huh?
you think those people are required to do them? One of the primary tests doesn't even require you to move. 50% of the other two are literally counting.
And like i said, you can just hit them with the blow test? Or blood like i mentioned, that's a particularly good one.
In some states refusing the circus act is an automatic DUI. Even if you ask for a blood test. We have the technology to just do away with it. And dyslexic people can drive just fine while fucking up the numbers and alphabet. It just needs to go.
that is pretty silly, though idk much about the specifics of it, really it should only mean you get arrested/detained, it shouldn't be possible to charge you with something that isnt proven.
It shouldn't. And yet it is. That's not even the worst use of that though. Cops can beat you up and arrest you for resisting arrest at any time. And that generally comes with jail time.
well i mean resisting arrest is quite literally illegal, so that would make sense, considering that if you're evading arrest, you probably have a reason to be doing so.
Though you also have to resist arrest for that one to happen. Otherwise it's unlawful use of force.
Sure. Technically. In reality they can literally just punch you and arrest you.
in reality they can roll up to you and tell you that you're under arrest, which means you have to comply legally. The actual proceedings of being arrested and charged take place later, so that's where that would be disputed.
If you were to resist, that's literally illegal. Therefore police have the right to use reasonable force against you (which is often defined as a proportion of your resistive force)
If you don't resist, and they do use force on you, there is almost definitely a case that you can hold against them for unreasonable force.
Mmhmm. Sure. And the second that cop gets on the stand and swears they did nothing wrong you're going to jail.
If the only charge is resisting arrest then it's a corrupt abuse of power on its face. What you're saying sounds reasonable as a thought experiment but in reality we have warrants for a reason. We have constitutional rules about due process explicitly because these powers were already abused.
Allowing police to just declare you're going to jail for a year is a massive fucking breach of our rights.
If the only charge is resisting arrest then it’s a corrupt abuse of power on its face.
i mean, kind of? Like sometimes i'm sure it is. But fleeing in it of itself, is a crime. That's illegal. Maybe it should be legal, or highly contestable in court i suppose, but if fleeing wasn't illegal, you could just run from police, they can't stop you.
I mean yeah sure there's potential for abuse, that's why body cameras are a thing now. Every cruiser to my knowledge is fitted with a dashcam as well as a rear seat cam. It'd be pretty fucking hard to bullshit that one unless you're actually resisting. And by this point we're in a court of law and the only thing that matters here is what's proven, And even if they do lie, they can still get bit in the ass later because it's literally a fucking crime. (or at least, that should be the case.)
This happened fairly recently even.
They're not declaring that you're going to jail, they're stating that you're under arrest, which means that you are until dismissed, under the jurisdiction of the state, or specifically here, the officer arresting you.
Though to be clear here, if this is a thing that does happen, which i'm sure it does, yes that is a bad thing, and it is wrong, and it shouldn't be possible or legal. I'm just reiterating what the law is here. Even then literally all you have to do to not get hit with these charges is to comply. Which in most cases, super trivial.
In the case of a DUI here, in the event that you can't perform field sobriety, you're either brought back to the station where you can have a blood test done, which will demonstrate your sobriety pretty well. Like it's important to remember here that there are many factors to a DUI traffic stop specifically.
Usually you pull someone over for erratic driving (on account of being drunk) which is already, not legal to a degree. Usually they'll have some sort of alcohol on their breath (to be fair, you can just lie about this) generally there is an alcoholic beverage near them, empty or partially full. Having full unopened cans, as well as empty cans isn't in itself illegal to my knowledge. Signs of impairment, which SFST usually works to elaborate on. Breath testing, which inaccurate is another factor, and notably, blood draw.
We've seen similar cases to this before, there was a recent one where a kid got stopped due to a tagging issue on his car, insurance or something or other. Officer initiated a traffic stop, as is common practice, dude didn't know what the fuck was happening, and the officer was like "bro i think ur drunk" TL;DR he got pulled into the station, had his blood drawn, wasn't drunk, and then left. That officer was just a dumbass. (though to be clear here, i don't see anything saying he was jailed, just that he was arrested, not charged with any time or anything)
Are there problems with the system? Yeah probably, is there a good solution to this problem? Maybe. That's not my jurisdiction here. My point is there there are multiple places here where this issue gets caught, and fixed appropriately, and this does happen, routinely.
But fleeing in it of itself, is a crime. ... but if fleeing wasn’t illegal, you could just run from police, they can’t stop you.
Well that's not true. Obviously the police can chase you and arrest you. We've already established they can place you under arrest at any time for any reason. Why does it matter if they get a workout first? Why is fleeing a crime in and of itself? Shouldn't the actual crime be the crime? Trying not to have your life exploded is just a human reaction. Burglary is a crime. Fleeing is human. Criminalizing humanity is just another way to abuse power.
Body Cameras are nice. When they're aimed correctly, or turned on, or even exist in that police department. But the problem remains that a police officer need do nothing but accuse you and rough you up. Even with a body camera that gets a conviction. Unsurprisingly 5 guys pretending to wrestle a 100 pound drug addict sells to a jury. Compliance does not matter. You can be the most compliant person in the world. They can accuse you of letting your body become dead weight. If you try to help them then you're actively resisting. Either way gets you face down with a taser in your ass.
And yeah the Brady list, for cops caught lying in court. A good district fires those cops. An average district just has a different cop go to court and lie for them, and a bad district just puts them on the stand anyways. I'm not sure what you thought the punishment was but for many police forces in the US the "punishment" is not having to put on your dress uniform to go to court anymore.
Having empty cans is "open containers" in every state I've lived in.
Your thought experiments are nice, but the police aren't acting in good faith. The laws and thought experiments assume police act in good faith and it's just not true.
Why is fleeing a crime in and of itself?
probably because often times it involves fighting and physical resistance, and in a number of other instances dangerous actions that can potentially put other people in a position of harm.
If fleeing wasn't a crime, an officer could initiate a traffic stop, and you could just not stop. Theoretically you could also make a law that says "if initiating a traffic stop, the individual must also stop, otherwise they are illegally fleeing" oh wait, that sounds familiar.
This is like arguing that not paying your taxes on time is perfectly legal because you paid them after the fact.
Trying not to have your life exploded is just a human reaction.
yeah, and to my knowledge, most people normally try to do this by being a polite and cordial individual who doesn't intentionally cause problems.
Fleeing is human. Criminalizing humanity is just another way to abuse power.
i mean, fighting is also human, and so is freezing. And if we're getting to the level of criminalizing humanity. Than i could very argue that we shouldn't criminalize rape because rape is a distinctly human experience, and it's an abuse of power to wield that crime over someones head, for something as human as rape.
Body Cameras are nice. When they’re aimed correctly, or turned on, or even exist in that police department. But the problem remains that a police officer need do nothing but accuse you and rough you up. Even with a body camera that gets a conviction. Unsurprisingly 5 guys pretending to wrestle a 100 pound drug addict sells to a jury. Compliance does not matter. You can be the most compliant person in the world. They can accuse you of letting your body become dead weight. If you try to help them then you’re actively resisting. Either way gets you face down with a taser in your ass.
yeah, agreed, and these are all micro technicalities here. The sun is nice, until you get sunburnt, the road is nice, until you fall on it, and scrape your knee. Cars are nice, until you get into a wreck and your shit gets imploded. Frankly if we're talking about injustices against humanity, i think capital punishment is probably a bigger problem, considering that numerous people, every year are wrongly executed.
Having empty cans is “open containers” in every state I’ve lived in.
it has to depend, if it's just sitting in your cupholder or something, that's pretty suspect, but if you've got cans crushed up and stomped into a garbage can or something, to be recycled, that's gotta legal. Otherwise doing literally anything other than throwing away empty beer cans would be a crime, and i'm almost certain a significant number of people recycle beer cans and bottles.
Your thought experiments are nice, but the police aren’t acting in good faith. The laws and thought experiments assume police act in good faith and it’s just not true.
which would be why the police aren't the only thing that determine your criminal status. Most police would realistically be operating in good faith, because at the end of the day, arresting someone means paper work, and also means transporting that person, as well dealing with any potential court hearings. It's less work to just let someone off the hook with a ticket or citation, than it is to arrest someone. And if police are not to be trusted, i see no reason for them to do more work than needed.
Not stopping for a traffic stop would be obstructing the police or something. Or, and this is super duper crazy, we could just take their license plate and send them the bill for speeding. It's a civil offense. There's no reason to get a police officer involved at all. If they're driving erratically then it falls under the same heading as running away from any other crime. The erratic driving is already the crime. There's no reason other than, "peasants must obey" to outlaw fleeing. They've already committed a crime and already need to be apprehended. Making them double need to be apprehended doesn't help society in any way.
Rape isn't a human experience. There's no "rape reflex" in our heads. That's jumping to an extreme and illogical.
Bodycams being used for corrupt purposes by a corrupt force is not a micro technicality, it's the entire fucking point.
And nope, they will accuse you of crushing them while you were waiting for the cop to run your plates. An empty container is assumed to have been fully drunk while driving.
They don't get their overtime by doing nothing. Only "earners" get the perks. And the courts and prosecutors are partial to the police because they need them to do their jobs and the police have power over them too. When Phoenix City officials in Arizona decided to not renew the Maricopa County Sheriff's contract because of all the shit Sheriff Arpaio was doing he straight up harrassed them. Then he tried to do it to the Maricopa County board and several prosecutors as well. It's only because it's an elected position that he was taken care of eventually. And that's just the one I saw personally. These cases are all over the place. If you look up Judges sending kids to Juvie for kickbacks you have to specify which scandal you mean.
The system is not on your side.
Not stopping for a traffic stop would be obstructing the police or something. Or, and this is super duper crazy, we could just take their license plate and send them the bill for speeding. It’s a civil offense.
i suppose it could also be obstruction, that's usually reserved for outside influence though. Or the odd case where something like resisting doesn't work.
In regards to your recommendation of what is essentially botnet spying on people, i'm going to have to give you a hard pass there. Cops very well could do that, and i suppose they could file for a ticket manually, but doing that automatically is a massive privacy violation, and insanely capable of being abused.
Rape isn’t a human experience. There’s no “rape reflex” in our heads. That’s jumping to an extreme and illogical.
i mean yeah, but it is also, a literal human experience. Which is what you used to define the prior statement. It's a uniquely human experience and i don't think you could classify it as anything else, considering that we developed an entire language, and then a word specifically for it, and have laws relating specifically to it.
Bodycams being used for corrupt purposes by a corrupt force is not a micro technicality, it’s the entire fucking point.
the specifics of them being used that way is, the broader existence of that concept is a more macro technicality.
And nope, they will accuse you of crushing them while you were waiting for the cop to run your plates. An empty container is assumed to have been fully drunk while driving.
fascinating.
They don’t get their overtime by doing nothing. Only “earners” get the perks. And the courts and prosecutors are partial to the police because they need them to do their jobs and the police have power over them too.
i suppose so, but idk what you really want me to say about it.
If you look up Judges sending kids to Juvie for kickbacks you have to specify which scandal you mean.
this is a correctional facility issue more broadly i would argue, i have significant issues with prison/jail and the way it works myself.
The system is not on your side.
i find it ironic, that you say this, and then argue for a system that literally spies on its own people, but you do you i guess.
No but it is illegal to park in most places after hours. You will get hit with trespassing.
In what sort of un-free shitehole is that a law?!?
Large swaths of the US
And I'm also guessing most other parts of the world.
No, not really
So there are no trespassing laws in other countries?
There are no we-passionately-hate-poor-and-or-homeless-persons-and-want-to-make-them-suffer-as-much-as-we-can laws in the spirit of that culture of the USA, no
In the civilised world, there are laws to the opposite, in fact.
In Switzerland, access to lakes and rivers is guaranteed by law, for everyone (even poor people! Imagine that) even, and especially, if that means walking on land owned by someone else, private or not.
In Sweden, people can even roam the entire country freely, by law.
It would be cool if we had those laws in the usa too. I don't know why you are phrasing it in a way that makes it seem like I hate my fellow poor people though.
It's not you specifically, it's the culture
In the US it isn't even usually trespassing, it is specifically illegal to sleep in your car, even on public property.
I have so many questions.
a tent in the woods
That's where tents belong, though. It's called camping.
I thought people only went glamping nowadays.
No, people only post glamping to social media. Plenty of people still go camping.
i genuinely can't believe there are laws around sleeping in vehicles these days. You want me to pack up and fuck off after a day? Fine, i'll do that, i can live with that. Fuck you for making it illegal though. Actual bullshit.
I only lie to three people. Cops, judges, and my parents.
I remember being told that an adult could sleep in a car, but with a child, sleeping in a car is considered "endangerment". Doubly so if you're a CIS gender male with a female child. This was a Texas CPS social worker. We just had a flood and were brainstorming ideas for temporary shelter for folks.
Totally!.... At the home Depot if someone shoplifts a drill, tell them where the drill bits are. Chances are they won't be able to come back to home Depot again for a while. They might as well have all they need.
Why not buy some under water drills and an underwater propulsion device then go down to the marina and sink some expensive yatchs? How about slashing some police tires?
Why not study an industry you wanna take down and figure out how? Or gather an online flash mob and invade a conservative website or institution. How about running for office at your local council? Or sending letters to good and bad politicians saying what you think. Contact the media about something you believe but make sure it's the right level for what you're saying.
Or go read some leftwing theory.
Some of that is adventurism, so I would say organizing comes first. Sinking yachts does little without a mass leftist movement to take advantage of the damage.
Theory is great too, it makes your practice sharper.
And we pay to keep them homeless between shit charities with stocked boards making $100k yearly, ER visits, and arrests/enforcement.. This system of capitalism is totally ducked build dense affordable housing, and watch America become actually great again.
I never snitch, ever. If my neighbour was a serial killer, I'd just move instead of calling the cops.
i'd give him a shopping list...
What if they're shoplifting at my store?
Then direct them to Walmart because your owner-operated store with no employees is too rare already.
I know people who are shoplifting for "fun" or for "the thrill". They don't even care about the items and they definitely don't care about the shop owner. They just do it when they see the chances.
Unless it's a small business, I don't care about the shop owner, either.
Won't anyone think of the shareholders!
Many will, but I won't be among them!
Gas Station Encounters is a great channel to see shoplifters in action.
Pays 100$ for gas, 50$ worth of scratch tickets, 20$ worth of soda
Steals a 50¢ candy bar
Some people are just... lmao
I sleep outside just because sometimes. So anyways homeless people don't exist right?
Here's the deal: as long as you're not being an asshole about doing any of these things, I'll probably overlook it.
Start acting a fool however, and I'll have the cops come collect you.
Precisely correct.
To me, shop lifting is taking small value items.
What you described is, to me, theft.
IANAL
I'm just a tool of my own design.
I'm working from inside to ruin the corps clearly 😂
I never saw so many people shoplifting when I worked at Hy-vee.
It’s legal to camp in the woods in my state. I think it’s also legal to sleep in your car, even though in this weather, a person could die sleeping in their car. If you see someone shoplifting, you really should report it. If it’s food or beverage, some social worker can set them up with a food stamp card. If it’s some item that isn’t a necessity, like a nice piece of jewelry, or a designer bag, they might need some mental help.
If it’s food or beverage, some social worker can set them up with a food stamp card.
Reporting somebody isn't going to get them that. At best, it gets them banned from the store. At worst, cops show up and shoot them, and then the cops get paid vacation because "they thought their lives were in danger".
They don't get help. They get probation and fines. Then when they can't pay the fines because they're already in poverty, they get sent to jail semi randomly. Which makes sure they will never climb out of the hole. If it's a second or later offense they'll probably get sent to prison. Which involves more debt, losing everything they own, and going into yet another cycle of debt to the system.
If you want to get them help, hand them a pamphlet with the contact information for a social agency.
I ain't doing shit.
If I see some adult sleeping in their car, for over twenty minutes, on a day when it’s over 100F, and their windows are closed, I’m calling EMS. There are some cases where “doing sh_t” is absolutely necessary.