‘I’ve carried out more than 50 citizen’s arrests’

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1. Bit of a fool tbh, no amount of property, stock etc is worth risking your own safety.

   Only a matter of time until he’s seriously injured or killed. For what…?

2. 12 cameras with 4 on the way? With a 4 screen monitor system? Would be cheaper to set your shop up as a perspex tunnel and just get stuff for people when they get to the counter

3. The idea of that storeholders should just let shoplifters steal and hope the police do something, knowing they won’t, is so emblematic of the state of this country.

   We’re not empowered to defend our own property and are required instead to rely on a service that will do absolutely nothing to help us.

   Just let shop owners twat any thief in their shop and the problem disappears overnight

4. “Anyone can arrest a person if they have reasonable grounds for believing a serious offence is being committed – but the National Police Chiefs Council says people should call 999 if a crime is taking place.”

   They mean call 999 in vain, as noone will show up

5. Do we even have “citizens arrest”? I thought that was an American thing

6. A guy tried to do this to me once. Some kids kicked his fence in and ran off, he came out, saw me walking down the street and started chanting ‘CITIZENS ARREST!’ at the top of his voice like he was trying to levitate a broomstick.

7. If the government fixes people’s socioeconomic circumstances then they’ll do less crime and theft, which is (for the most part) done out of “necessity” rather than some evil hate. It’s shown by data and is very much better to prevent than the catch people at the act and fill up the prisons

8. We had mass police action against fucking copyright infringement a week or so ago yet they won’t attend actual robberies.

   Ludicrous.

   Fuck the police.

9. I thought I read that if you do this , the police have a tendency to say they can’t attend or can’t attend for hours and that you have to release the shoplifter?

10. Shoplifting is just scummy behaviour, they’re not robin hood they’re thieving scroats

11. If some knobhead in a doublet accused me of stealing and tried to “detain” me I’d give him short shrift too.

12. I worked in retail for a long time and had this one young guy that would come in and steal regularly. He would also trash the shop when we dont give him cigarettes because he never carried his ID. We’d always call the police but as soon as we did he would walk away and 999 would say that as long as he is not in the shop we cannot do anything and should just report it online. They would refuse to come down unless he was inside and we were in danger. Bear in mind the police station is about 5 mins from the shop. It happened multiple times and he never faced any repercussions…

    There is no consequences for stealing no wonder it feels like it’s being encouraged.

13. The vast majority of shop lifting is carried about by drug addicts to feed their addiction. Deterrence isn’t going to deter people who need to feed an addiction. Doctors going back to prescribing drugs to drug addicts would cut shop lifting by 90 percent.

14. It’s like the huge cuts made to the police front line staff by the tories are coming to roost.

15. Chains themselves make employees sign repeated records on the line of ” do not confront shoplifters “

16. Would be as different story if stores had baseball bats and tasers.

    You rob somebody its the least you deserve.

17. Imagine if someone tried to citizens arrest you…. I’d just laugh and leave

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