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It’s Getting Dangerous for Photographers in California —  Another Camera Store Robbed

See the extensive blog post on this topic on Dec 1.

Suspects in $80K Dublin ‘takeover-style’ robbery sought

Police are looking for suspects who stole $80,000 in merchandise from a camera store in Dublin, according to a press release. Around 10 a.m. Wednesday, officers arrived at Mike’s Camera in the 7200 block of Regional Street after a reported armed robbery. When they entered, officers learned five suspects “entered the business and pointed handguns at store employees and customers in a ‘take-over’ style robbery,” according to the press release.

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Armed robbery means potential murder or one or more people. IMO, anyone who uses a gun like this ought to be hunted down as the very top priority of the police 24 X 7 until apprehended. Because sooner or later, people will die. Offer rewards for information leading to capture. And privatize it with bounty hunting if the police prove incompetent at it? MAKE IT STOP.

Roy P writes:

The insanity continues.  Here’s another photography store robbery, this time in Dublin CA:

Suspects in $80K Dublin ‘takeover-style’ robbery sought

The Leica Store in San Francisco now has an armed guard inside the store.  If you buy anything there, one of the store employees will walk out of the store with you to your car and put your merchandise in your car.

DIGLLOYD: the costs of doing business are substantially increased with armed guards. Including insurance (what happens if a customer is shot accidentally?). It’s probably better, but no solution.

Would you shop there and perhaps be tailed home and/or get forced off the road and robbed in a dark and lonely place, far from help? Or have an Apple AirTag placed on your car for a professional team of thieves to converge on at any future date?

The only solution is voting out the feckless people governing these cities and this state and coming down hard on such activities and all the lawlessness generated over the past several years of woke policing. But the voters have spoken and apparently are not too concerned, since they vote for the same schmucks over and over.

What’s it really like out there?

Street robberies and you - The Basics

... First, my info. I worked in the street of one of America's most violent, dangerous cities for 15 years. I usually worked in the worst part of that city. I spent 15 years in patrol. I liked patrol. It was wild. Most of the time I worked in areas covered in ghetto. By that I mean large housing projects combined with run down slum housing. I have worked all shifts. Later I became an investigator including a robbery investigator. I have spent countless hours in interrogation rooms talking to hold up men. I know them. I am still an investigator but have quit playing the Robbery game because my family was starting to forget what I looked like.

The Enemy   — Some may object to me calling hold up men "the enemy". You can call them whatever you like. I can assure you however they are as deadly an enemy as you will find anywhere but the battlefield. Even many soldiers probably lack the viciousness and utter disregard for life most hold up men possess... Once a man starts armed robbing he has crossed a line most won't. Don't forget that when you are looking these bastards in the eye. Their decision to kill you is already made. Your life means nothing to him. Only his does. His sole motivation for not killing you is he doesn't want a murder case. He has already accepted he may pick one up though. 

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DIGLLOYD: this rings true. And the authorities and legal system are not fond of you defending yourself—either you die or suffer years of legal hurt or worse. Yet authorities are incompetent to keep your safe, being little mor than an after-the-fact cleanup crew. And there are areas now that even the police won’t go, with gangbangers carrying machine guns with drum magazines.



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