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"Shoplifter: Police need to stop people like me"

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timpanie · 01/10/2023 09:29

"A persistent shoplifter has said the police need to do more to stop people like her stealing from businesses.

[...]

She thinks the police could do more to combat the actions of people like her.

"When people shoplift, they [police] should start putting pictures of the shoplifters on the internet, maybe on the front doors so people can see 'warning', you know, 'shoplifter'.

"I don't think police quite do their job properly.""

From here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66974506

I'm hoping she was prodded into saying that (i.e. asked by the journalist whether the authorities could do more about shoplifting) rather than it being spontaneous but I can't help but despair a little. So much commentary on crime is now a complex analysis of who else could be blamed other than the perpetrator. Can people not take responsibility for their own actions?

CCTV images of thieves in Adrian Bhagat's shop, in Nottingham

Shoplifter: Police need to stop people like me

A persistent shoplifter says stealing is easy and that police could do more to stop people like her.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66974506

OP posts:
OneTC · 02/10/2023 12:21

Ponoka7 · 02/10/2023 10:15

There's around 20% of shoplifters who have neurological issues. Then there's MH issues, then addiction. How many deaths would you be ok with? Or do you propose that a security guard has the powers to strip a woman so the suicide risk isn't there? Having a cash/credit card in your possession doesn't mean that it's got credit on it. Being detained might be a fantasy of yours, but it's a bizarre thing to want for all.

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99% of them have got serious problems, going by our frequent flyers anyway. We can detain people for as long as it takes the police to get there (in the days they used to come) and I've had one neck all his drugs and deliberately OD

Hill1991 · 02/10/2023 13:04

As someone who works in a shop I can say that 99% of our shoplifters are drug addicts, me and my colleague stopped two blokes yesterday who were shoplifting and the police around us do what they can, it's the judges that don't hand down tougher sentences.

CornishClott · 02/10/2023 13:06

Hill1991 · 02/10/2023 13:04

As someone who works in a shop I can say that 99% of our shoplifters are drug addicts, me and my colleague stopped two blokes yesterday who were shoplifting and the police around us do what they can, it's the judges that don't hand down tougher sentences.

They need to send them to rehab instead of prison to try and break the cycle .

BodegaSushi · 02/10/2023 13:15

OnAFrolicOfMyOwn · 01/10/2023 11:21

minor theft is rife since shops introduced self-serve

Someone in head office will have decided the thefts are costing less than the salaries of the staff the self-service tills have replaced.

Bingo

BodegaSushi · 02/10/2023 13:15

YouJustDoYou · 01/10/2023 11:22

No one's getting misgendered, so the police won't prioritise shop lifting at all.

Bringing 'trans' into every single topic on Mumsnet should be an Olympic sport

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