[T]he thief headed for the cash register. He didn't succeed in breaking through the bulletproof glass.... He then headed straight for the ATM.Somehow the police managed to arrive after the guy was gone, and the guy made off with nothing.
"I was waiting and waiting and I'm looking at my camera on my phone and the guy was still inside in the store, breaking things and damaging things," the owner said. The owner watched the video in real time as he sat in his vehicle across the street. He said he called MPD several times.
"He just had so much confidence that police weren't going to show up or something, and he was just taking his time and kept working on it," the owner said.
Horrible police (but excellent ATM machine and bulletproof glass construction).
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And democrats want to make sure only the state has guns.
For our own good of course.
As scott Adams said, conservatives might consider gun control once the democrats stop trying to kill us.
The mantra of us 2nd amendment types used to be: "When Seconds Count The Police Are Only Two Minutes Away".
I guess we'll adjust that a wee bit.
Waiting for (dis)ARM to comment.
Since at least 90% of gun violence is committed by democrat voters there is gun control I would accept: If you choose to vote democrat you aren't allowed to have guns.
Maybe the police have different priorities in responding.
1) Hate speech.
2) Protecting protesters.
3) Traffic Flow.
4) Meter Enforcement.
5) Robbery.
6) Armed Robbery.
7) Assault.
8) Aggravated Assault.
9) Rape.
10) Murder
We were assured by someone like Elizabeth Warren or some other leftist blob, that the police are all we need.
All that time and effort that went into the effort to recall Governor Walker (R) and elect Milwaukee Mayor Barrett (D) - thank god that did not work out. We "dodged that bullet."
To be fair, Krispy Kreme had turned on the 'fresh doughnut' sign just a few minutes before the call. I am not postulating collusion with Krispy Kreme per se, but I would suggest looking in the thief's pocket to see if he has a KK schedule there...
Well obviously they need to raise the guy's taxes.
I don’t see how the police can do their job without the support of the community, but I don’t see how the police can retain the support of the community with incidents like this one and the “swatting” murder of an unarmed and totally innocent individual in Wichita.
Criticize the police if you will, but let's also praise the burglar for showing an admirable work ethic and extraordinary persistence. That can-do spirit is going to serve him well.
"911, what's the nature of your emergency?"
"Help! My place of business is being hate speeched!"
"Officers will be there shortly"
This made me think of the August 7, 1988 entry in David Sedaris's "Theft by Finding" diaries:
"Late last night a group of drunk white boys ruined their car and three others just outside my window. The crash was loud. I was in the sunroom at the time, thinking of ways to make money. The windows were open, and I heard one boy say to another, 'Get going, asshole. Fucking leave. Drive, you fucker.' The guy behind the wheel tried to take off, but his car was too damaged. I called the police and called them again after one of the boys ordered two others to remove the license plates and the stickers. If you want the cops to come in Chicago, you really have to put the word gun in your sentence. I called a year ago and said it and they were here within two minutes— three cars of disappointed police officers."
Sedaris, David. Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) (p. 189). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition.
Having bullet proof glass in Philly is now racist. Hopefully that type of thinking will soon come to Milwaukee, just so that the hard-working criminals will be rewarded.
As the GOP's grotesquely pro-rich tax cuts take effect, reducing the economic pie for the masses, you can expect more petty, and violent crime and more murder as ordinary people become more desperate to survive. It is Social Darwinism at its worse. My mother, who had terminal cancer, was murdered by doctors in the hospital in 2012 most assuredly due to the effects of the economic crisis in 2008. The doctors weren't directly effected by the economic crisis, but it still resulted in her murder from a morphine overdose for reasons I won't go into. Of course murder is due to criminal behavior, but that's what I'm talking about. It is probably too soon to blame the recent lopsided tax bill for the strange crime in Milwaukee described in the blog post, but not impossible to link it to the financial crisis of 2008. Why did the Milwaukee Police Department take so long to respond to the theft in progress? Perhaps the police department is overworked, understaffed, underpaid, & underfunded, and lacking in motivation. 2008 is still being felt, unless you are one of its victims who died already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
Once, at my rented office space in lovely Montgomery County, MD, I called the cops on someone creating a disturbance in the lobby right outside my office. It was clear the dispatcher didn't want to send anyone, even though I was close to a police substation, & very close to a major traffic intersection. The call went something like this:
ME: "Are you going to dispatch someone?"
Police Dispatcher: "Tell me more about what the person is doing. Are they armed?"
ME: "I don't know. What do you want me to do? Go ask him?"
PD: "We'll send someone out."
They never dispatched anyone, or if they did, the cop never showed up.
I'll be interested to hear what the Milwaukee PD comes up with as an explanation.
If the cops showed up while the thief was there, they would have to arrest him. That just means more paperwork. It's not like the thief would go to jail or anything. It's Milwaukee.
It's always been tough being a White ethnic or Asian business owner in Black neighborhoods.
This man knew what he was getting into. So no sympathy here.
Trumpit said...
As the GOP's grotesquely pro-rich tax cuts take effect, reducing the economic pie for the masses, you can expect more petty, and violent crime and more murder as ordinary people become more desperate to survive. It is Social Darwinism at its worse. My mother, who had terminal cancer, was murdered by doctors in the hospital in 2012 most assuredly due to the effects of the economic crisis in 2008. The doctors weren't directly effected by the economic crisis, but it still resulted in her murder from a morphine overdose for reasons I won't go into. Of course murder is due to criminal behavior, but that's what I'm talking about. It is probably too soon to blame the recent lopsided tax bill for the strange crime in Milwaukee described in the blog post, but not impossible to link it to the financial crisis of 2008. Why did the Milwaukee Police Department take so long to respond to the theft in progress? Perhaps the police department is overworked, understaffed, underpaid, & underfunded, and lacking in motivation. 2008 is still being felt, unless you are one of its victims who died already.
And the left worries about Trump's mental health.
The police would have rushed to a call stating, "I just shot down a armed and violent burglar in my business. You may send a paramedic unit, but the double-tap to his head, from my 9mm handgun, seem to make that a useless action".
The concept of a fixed economic pie is so deeply flawed you should be embarrassed to offer it.
There is a risk the alleged thief is an African American and if he is armed.... it’s just not worth the trouble.
I don’t blame the cops.
Maybe there wasn’t any black officers available for the call.
@YoungHegelian, I have watched people routinely run red lights at the intersection of Randolph Road and Georgia, which is directly in front of a Montgomery PD substation. I used to wonder which was worse, the trigger-happy cops of Prince Georges County (look up the case of Prince Carmen Jones) versus the “doing my job is way too much bother” police of Montgomery County. Democrats like to characterize Montgomery County as high tax-high Services, but for all but the most affluent residents it is high tax but crappy services.
Trumpit, giving us "the feels".
It is probably too soon to blame the recent lopsided tax bill for the strange crime in Milwaukee described in the blog post, but not impossible to link it to the financial crisis of 2008. Why did the Milwaukee Police Department take so long to respond to the theft in progress? Perhaps the police department is overworked, understaffed, underpaid, & underfunded, and lacking in motivation. 2008 is still being felt, unless you are one of its victims who died already.
Give Trumpit some cocoa and a blankie. When he wakes up he may return to reality.
As the GOP's grotesquely pro-rich tax cuts take effect
Wrong. The rich are paying a greater share.
I think there's a solid argument that police, chronically underpaid and underappreciated are disinclined/demotivated by the BLM movement among other things. Many cities struggle to find qualified candidates and are understaffed, doubtless Milwaukee has the same problem.
@Big Mike,
...Montgomery County as high tax-high Services, but for all but the most affluent residents it is high tax but crappy services.
Yep, true dat. And those services have only gotten worse since me & the Mrs first moved here in Dec., 1980.
I should correct my statement: "The doctors weren't directly effected by the economic crisis, but it still resulted in her murder from a morphine overdose for reasons I won't go into."
The doctors may have been affected by the 2008 economic crisis because so many innocent people were hurt by it. The doctors killed an elderly terminal cancer patient to hide her adverse reaction to a tranquilizer given for "anxiety." They murdered her by phone orders to the ER nurses without checking on the patient. I know that as a fact because I was at her bedside when the nurse, following phone orders, ran to the pharmacy to get the deadly morphine pump that killed her.
@Ignorance is Bliss, you are a ignorant person, like Trump, if you think I'm mentally ill like Trump is. He suffers from infantilism for starters. He's a very sick and dangerous man. He has a "big button," and may kill us all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantilism
I remember way back in the nineties, when NJ troopers were accused of profiling blacks. I had a fender bender on the turnpike and a white trooper first arrived, made sure everyone was physically ok, got back in his car until a black trooper arrived and the black trooper did the paperwork. Maybe there was something to that or maybe not.
Speaking of bullet proof glass ... some want to ban it. http://kenblogic.blogspot.com/2017/12/mr-gorbachev-tear-down-this-wall.html
"@Ignorance is Bliss, you are a ignorant person, like Trump, if you think I'm mentally ill like Trump is. He suffers from infantilism for starters. He's a very sick and dangerous man. He has a "big button," and may kill us all."
The above statement is kinda a clue that you aren't doing too well.
Why don't you take all that anger out the people responsible.
Bullet proof glass functions as a WALL.
As the GOP's grotesquely pro-rich tax cuts take effect ...
"Wrong. The rich are paying a greater share."
Your crazy buddy Trump stated to his rich country-club friends, "You all just got a lot richer." QED.
@rehjm, you apparently suffer from innumeracy as described in this 1988 book available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515431155&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=innumeracy+1988
Yeah, yeah...but..
The trolley will unite the city.
Hey Trumpet: instead of whining about Trump, why not tell us why it took over an hour for the police to show up? You promote bigger government because it's supposed to be so wonderful.
This is a clear cut case of government in non-action. Please defend it, Maestro of Big Government.
--Vance
Milwaukee PD is too busy raiding non-Dem politicians for John Doe investigations to bother with this kinda stuff. Anarcho-tyranny at its best.
I have experienced long delays in police response when the alarm at my office has gone off. The last time it happened was about four years ago. I waited outside my office for 15 minutes before they arrived, thinking all the time if someone came out of there with my server, one of us was going to have to die, because I am not going to jail for HIPAA and I don't have the means to pay their million dollar fines. But this makes me wonder if we don't have a nationwide problem with police departments. They seem to be too eager to arrest and/or shoot people they confront for minor offenses, yet are slow to respond to real threats. I thought it was mostly just my town, but it seems to be wider spread than that.
As the GOP's grotesquely pro-rich tax cuts take effect, reducing the economic pie for the masses, you can expect more petty, and violent crime and more murder as ordinary people become more desperate to survive.
Once that thief gets a job because of Trumps tax cuts, he will contribute taxes to make society better.
Winning !
"'Just knowing someone is there in your property, you are helpless. You can't do nothing. Totally helpless," the owner said.
Said no Texan, ever.
Your crazy buddy Trump stated to his rich country-club friends, "You all just got a lot richer." QED.
Did you take a cut in pay to pay for their riches? No? Then what are you actually complaining about?
Oh, I know, something bad gonna happen in the future, right?
Back in the 80s & 90s, when I lived in the Bolton Hill area of Baltimore, cops would show up very quickly. I drove with an officer in the Citizens on Patrol program once a month and remember being told an important metric for the police was insurance payouts associated with property losses. Who knew, before the ACA, that insurance companies were so powerful?
Althouse,
A perrenial joke that makes the rounds on the self-defense community:
A guy interrupts a burglary-in-progress at his home, holding the burglar at gunpoint and calling 911.
"911, how may I help you?"
"I am the homeowner, I'd like to report a burglary in progress."
"We don't have any officers available at the moment, but we can probably have one there in an hour or two."
"Ok."
Guy hangs up and then calls back.
"Hey, I'm the guy who just reported a burglary in progress. Never mind, you can take your time, I've shot the suspect."
90 seconds later a patrol car squeals to a stop outside, and two officers dash in with guns drawn.
"Who's been shot???"
"Nobody, actually, but here's the creep that broke into my house."
"I thought you said that somebody was shot!!!"
"I thought your dispatcher said no officers were available..."
Trumpit,
What kind of moral monster are you, that you just sat there and let this happen to your mother instead of defending her against the medical assault?
Lem, I wouldn’t assume your incident had anything to do with race. I’ve done something similar on my way to a higher priority call ... a quick stop to make sure everyone is ok and then back enroute to my original call.
Nobody likes to see an officer go by and not stop after they’ve called in.
@YoungHegelian, I left in ‘96 and never looked back. I saw Fairfax go steadily downhill as more and more people left Montgomery in disgust but brought their stupid voting patterns (leftward! Ever leftward!) with them. When I retired I moved beyond the Blue Ridge. I feel for you, friend.
I've been called up for jury duty this month. All 1 day trials, they say. Jan 9, 11, 24, 25, and the 31st. This afternoon at 4:45 I will call a telephone # to see if I need to show up tomorrow morning. If I need to show up tomorrow morning, I'll remember this video.
Kirk
There's huge hole in her life where her mother used to be. Anger is filling that hole. I suspect because of the frustration at not being able to hold guilty parties responsible.
I wish her peace. I really do.
Trumpit: As the GOP's grotesquely pro-rich tax cuts take effect ...
"Wrong. The rich are paying a greater share."
Your crazy buddy Trump stated to his rich country-club friends, "You all just got a lot richer." QED.
Before: You make $1 million a year and pay $100K in taxes
After: You make $2 million a year and pay $300K in taxes
You're paying more in taxes, but you've gotten a lot richer. It shouldn't be hard to comprehend that those aren't contradictory consequences of a change in tax policy.
Just got an email --
Greetings jurors. The trial scheduled for 1-9-18 has been cancelled. Do not appear. Thank you.
No need to make the phone call.
Well, Milwaukee's Chief of Police has just resigned, apparently for unknown reasons.
Of course, this position is always far more about politics than about policing. And there's no reason to suppose Flynn's successor will be any better.
But the Chief can make a difference. Will the next one be more interested in improving overall performance, or better at managing crime statistics to make the City look less like a lawless place where citizens are on their own if/when trouble calls?
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