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And So It Begins

Imagine this scenario:
A restaurant is robbed and when the police come,  they do the usual, including the dusting for fingerprints. “The good news is there are some fresh prints,” says the investigating officer. “However, the bad news is that the prints are from the same person who robbed your place last week!”

The perplexed restaurant owner was stunned. “How can that be? I thought that burglary was an offense that required bail.”

“While that is true, now because of this coronavirus thing, some of the judges are setting bail so low that these slugs practically meet themselves coming in when they are leaving – a revolving door. Sorry, I feel for you, but there is nothing I can do about it.”

If I am hearing you, the reader, saying, “This is too far-fetched to be believed,” I would refer you to a recent article on Breitbart. This article describes the situation in Houston where burglaries are up twenty percent since the issuance of the stay home orders. Apparently habitual burglars see these closed businesses as situations that are just too good to pass up . . . i.e. to rob!

But Houston is not alone. The same sort of thing is happening in other cities. New York City has seen a 21.8 % increase in burglaries in the last 28 days. Auto thefts are up by over 64% over the same period of time in NYC. In Minneapolis, burglaries are double what they had been before February 5th! “In economic hard times burglaries, robberies, and domestic violence go up,” said Professor Jillian Peterson, a Criminology Professor at Hamline University.

Meanwhile bail for domestic assault and robbery have been lowered to a pittance of what they usually have been! . . . see the scenario at the top!

Actually, I have to stop now as I forgot to lock my garage!

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