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I could steal no more than $999.99 more than once a day but poor planning could get me concealed carry whacked without someone calling the cops.
With cash only (stolen goods usually fence for less) at one hit per day me can steal without being investigated $6,999.93 a week,
$27,999.72 every 28 days and approximately $335,996.64 as long as I don't get greedy,and take a little time off.
Not bad. Looks like a career.
For all of the advances we have made in the sciences, arts, medicine etc., we haven't advanced a bit in the political arena since Thucydides penned those words approx. 416 B.C. The American experiment to recognize the natural right of the individual to own property has ceased to function. The politicians and thieves "exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must."
Sic transit gloria Individual Rights
Certain parts of the country are beginning to resemble South Africa, where the wealthy elite all live in walled, gated communities with private security guards. The rest of the population is increasingly vulnerable to criminal home invasions, because there are too few police to cope with the runaway crime in South Africa, and we can expect to hear that here. Thankfully, this irrational, unsafe condition exists only in big urban centers, so far, and unlike South Africa, we still have our 2nd amendment right of self defense.
I lock down my garages. I have a six foot cedar fence around my property and four gates that a Mac truck might knock over but not a person(s).
Good alarm system and a big dog are better.
I think the left has been taking notes.
A few months ago, a family member's office was broken into, and two checkbooks were stolen, over a weekend. On Monday, the bank called to verify authorization of a $4,000 check someone was trying to cash. My family member said the check was not authorized, and asked the bank employee to call the police and detain the person trying to cash the fraudulent check. The employee said they wouldn't; their policy is not to get involved, because the bank loses money if an employee has to waste time giving statements and going to court to testify about such matters. Apparently only armed robbery is significant enough for them to participate in an investigation.
Another check for several thousand dollars had already been cashed by the bank before that failed attempt. Because of insurance, my family member won't suffer a financial loss, and the bank would rather take the loss than go through the "hassle" of wasting employees' time proving the theft legally.
The local cops said they'd be wiling to pursue the thieves, but the bank won't provide the video footage without a subpoena, and apparently that's too complicated for the cops to pursue.
I had a similar experience a few years ago when someone used a fake credit card with the same number as my account, though the amount of the theft was less. It's frustrating that, between the police and the banks who are the ones actually suffering the financial loss, nobody seems interested in stopping these criminals. (Though I'm sure the cost of the loss is ultimately passed on to honest customers as higher fees and interest rates.) Yet they'll lock someone up for possessing or ingesting a "forbidden" plant, even though they've harmed no one else.