New York police nab repeat shoplifter who had at least 12 prior arrests

[rayg]

People like this raise the cost of products for every one!

Can someone please tell me how many arrests does it take to keep a person off the streets?

Yonkers police said a loss prevention manager pointed out the suspect to police

Yonkers police said Friday marked Rosario?s 13th overall arrest.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-police-nab-repeat-shoplifter-who-had-12-prior-arrests

[Vern Humphrey]

They do indeed raise costs for the rest of us. And our current policy of turning them loose again and again is unacceptable.

[lyman]

when I was in the Gro Biz, 7 yrs ago,
VA would let a shoplifter get off if they were a first timer but going to a diversion program,
we called it shoplifting class,

however, VA also had (may still have) a 3 strikes policy,

so after you get convicted of 2 misdemeanors, #3 is an instant and automatic felony, meaning the stuff hit the fan, or the stuff getz real for you,

popped a few that got a felony and time,

[Vern Humphrey]

when I was in the Gro Biz, 7 yrs ago,
VA would let a shoplifter get off if they were a first timer but going to a diversion program,
we called it shoplifting class,

however, VA also had (may still have) a 3 strikes policy,

so after you get convicted of 2 misdemeanors, #3 is an instant and automatic felony, meaning the stuff hit the fan, or the stuff getz real for you,

popped a few that got a felony and time,

My thinking is, hang a thief when he is young and he will not steal when he is old.

[Allen]

What would Gaddafi have done? Chop off his hands.

A little harsh for the shoplifter but a strong, strong message for any others thinking of it.

[dryheat]

This time we really mean it.

[Vern Humphrey]

What would Gaddafi have done? Chop off his hands.

A little harsh for the shoplifter but a strong, strong message for any others thinking of it.

The Saudis, I believe, still do that. In the desert, where water is at a premium, a man eats with one hand and wipes his butt with the other. If you cut off one of his hands . . .

[Allen]

If you cut off one of his hands . . .

Then you are what you eat.

[Mark in Ottawa]

When I first started working, one of my colleagues was a civil engineer from the middle east. He was a very pleasant gentleman whom I liked a great deal. To my surprise he told me that he thought that the cutting of a hand was an appropriate response to theft and was in fact familiar with the concept.

I grew up in a fairly rough area of Toronto where the father of one of my close friends was a bootlegger; my neighbor was a working prostitute; my neighbor a few doors up the street went to jail for a scam; a friend up the street managed to accidently kill someone; the neighborhood kids ran a burglar ring and one of my close friends had spent half of his childhood in reform school for theft. I had a bit of trouble accepting that the cutting off of hands was appropriate since everyone that I knew would be one-handed.

As an unrelated aside, my colleague told me that he had worked on a port project in Saudi Arabia and had lost three construction workers to sharks. We were working at Toronto International Airport (now Pearson Airport) and I worried about my staff hitting an airplane (one guy actually did that) but sharks ???