Ratioing the police.

If you see someone stealing food... No you didn't
- Stealing food doesn't mean you're immoral, it means society is immoral.
  
  No. It means your stealing food. Some people just like to fucking steal.
- If they're stealing it to eat, sure.
  If they're stealing it so they can sell warm coat meat down the local flat roof pub and spend the proceeds on heroin, then... you probably also want to pretend you didn't see it because you're not paid enough to be stabbed by a junkie with a used syringe.
  
  You're probably not paid at all

Imagine driving around, probably with a punisher logo somewhere on your uniform or gear, and then posting your big bust of… store brand groceries
- It’s their phone wallpaper if you can’t see it anywhere else
  
  Lol, my buddy, who is not a cop but interacts with them fairly regularly for his job, has the punisher logo on his watchface.
  He's a good guy but I regularly tease him for it, and some of his viewpoints.
- No one else has pointed it out yet but this cop also somehow got himself a $90k Hellcat for his patrol car.
- Wasn't the Punisher's whole MO shitkicking corupt cops?
  
  No, that was his MO with cops. He shitkicked anyone who was a threat to civilians.

I care less WHY they stole the food. I just find it distasteful when the cops post these "look how bad ass we are" social media posts. Crime, no matter why it was committed, should not be used as someones time to celebrate or the special time before the trial to convince the public that the suspect is guilty via Facebook,etc. Least of all by the group of people who do the arresting.
- It's because the police view themselves as a "team" that is basically 'playing' against the other team....everyone else. To them, this is a win and shows how good they are. It's quite disturbing how indoctrinated they are and almost nobody realizes it.

They deleted the Tweet and released a halfhearted apology.
- As is tradition
- Now he just sits back and waits on his promotion. Nailed the asshole part of the evaluation

Having to steal food is super tiresome. Would rather not have to, but I've never felt bad about doing it. Imagine that. The normalization of the degradation is my issue personally. Putting people on one side of a moral line based on bullshit economic factors that for the one stealing are a kin to the winds of fate.

They weren't even stealing name brand groceries! Lots of those are store brand products.

"A female" seems kinda dehumanizing, like talking about an animal or words spoken by an incel.
- That caught my eye too, but I think it might be a reflection of how law enforcement speaks “a female suspect” “a male detainee” etc.
  
  Por que no los dos?
  An incel pig running their Twitter hardly seems a stretch.
- I get that they say "a female" because that's how they "identify" people via police reports and such. But I still cringe so bad when I hear someone say "a female".
  Female what? Deer? Shark? Dog?
  
  That's part of it, but police jargon is meant to dehumanize suspects. They could just as easily say man or woman but those words imply person-hood. While animals can be male or female they can't be a man or woman. Male-Black-46 works just as well to describe an animal in a study as a human on the street.

Inspector Javert over here.

Police are useless
- You'll change your tune when you get robbed and you need someone to show up 4 hours later and shoot your dog
  
  My car was stolen last week. 48 hours later my partner tracked it down and went to get it. The police hadn’t even requested the carpark CCTV in that time. We had to call the police to actually enter the place it was at so we didn’t get arrested for breaking and entering ourselves. The police will count this as their win, their solve even though they did practically nothing. They didn’t even arrest the guy who had our car. As useful as a chocolate teapot.
  
  Four hours, wow, such fast response times.
  Usually they tell you to come to the station and fill out a report.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shooting#Law_enforcement_failures_and_controversies
  
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Satire can't even keep up with these bastards.

all cops are bastards tho.

I like how they turned away the lube like no one would notice

Serious talk:
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- Thank you for adding this. I’ll see if I can sticky it to the top for anyone who needs to see it.

The food i understand but not the rest. Food has become so damn expensive these days.
- There are other necessities than food that people can't afford.

- It’s exactly the same... I just cut off identifying info in line with lemmy’s rules.
  
  The original screenshot did not include the reply's likes at the bottom, which is kind of an important detail when the title is explicitly pointing out the ratioing.

Fuck all the grocery stores. They're stealing from US

Ok, so here is my apparently unpopular opinion: Stealing is bad, and trying to justify it is not ok and dangerous.
- If someone is actually hungry or needing to feed children, there are substantially better options to steal, not to mention the social support options the police should be talking about. The random assortment of crap here looks more like a klepto's haul than something taken out of necessity.
- What an interesting and compelling argument.
  I'm sure it'll help many people understand your point of view, and persuade them to change theirs.

Dang y'all have steal passes? I wish I could steal me some bitches after all mans gotta eat sum poon!

Is lemmy really promoting stealing 🤧?
- Over starving to death? Absolutely.
  
  Literally there's no where stating that someone is starving to death on this post, lmao.
- yes. fuck the supermarkets
- I'm worried about how everyone thinks these items are food necessities. Clearly she desperately needed that fancy Febreeze, those air fresheners, and that cheese dip...

Hahha wtf, now they are asking us to "support" the shoplifters? Lol fuck that. Go to work
- Shoplifting isn't right, but there are deeper issues than shoplifting if someone has to shoplift basic needs.
  
  Basic needs like air freshener and ketchup?
  
  Yea, people not working and just taking stuff is the basic problem
- Going to work can be a complicated prospect for some members of society. Not everyone has equal opportunity for education and not everyone can find the support for psychological or mental health problems. We should have compassion for those that have a hard time functioning in society and I suspect that someone who is stealing food has been dealt a shitty hand in life and cannot manage to find the resources to manage normal life on their own.
  
  "Not everyine has equl opportunity for education" you kidding? Dont we give "free" education up to highschool?
- Just let me ask you this, if you were hungry and had no money, would you consider stealing? Is the moral prohibition of theft stronger than your life?
  If so please justify how you valuate property rights vs right to life, and where the limits are?

Just because somebody is stealing food doesn't mean they have to steal to live. Some people are just assholes.
- Just because somebody stole food because they're an asshole doesn't mean that everybody who steals food is an asshole.
  We don't actually know which is true here, but we do know that it's far more likely someone is stealing groceries because the wealth inequality horrorshow has grown even more perverse in the last year.
  Nevertheless, rather than defending an unnamed person from potentially reprehensible police, you defended the police and an unnamed retail store from a potentially reprehensible person.
  I hope you've got shares in a grocery chain because it would be deeply pitiful if you weren't even doing this out of self-interest.
  
  Like the cut of your jib
- Call me crazy but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt before assuming the worst when I don't know their situation.
  
  Bro, this is the internet. None of it matters.
- I mean you're being one right now.
  
  Don't👏commit👏crimes👏
- We will never be able to end crime if we continue to treat crime as a personal failing.
  
  Correct. We will never be able to end crime. It's kind of part of the human condition.

They also stole condoms, the ones they harm the most is their direct neighborhood when cheap stores leave the area and the remaing stores shift the burden of lost merchandise onto the paying customers.
- Condoms, which should be free.
  No person lost their job or saw a difference in price due to this amount of theft. Stop spouting corporate propaganda.
  
  I think the person you responded to pointed out the condoms because they believe food-insecure people shouldn't have sex. Which is silly--you don't always have a choice in sex (not everyone's relationships are healthy). And if you're going to have sex, preventing unwanted pregnancy and disease is the responsible choice.
- Buddy, all stores factor in theft. It doesn't matter how big or small they are, if they've been open for more than a few years, they've had shoplifters. From my understanding, you're much more likely to get busted at a small store than you are at a big chain so it happens at small stores much less.
- Condoms?? That's where you're upset? This person knows they shouldn't/can't bring more ppl into this world rn.
  Condoms should be free