Milpas 7-Eleven Looted

Lack of critical thinking and susceptible to misinformation and these are the kinds of comments you get!

What misinformation? His/her comments simply reflect common sense based on everyday observations in our society today.

Sigh. Here we go again. You are simply misrepresenting and completely misunderstanding the meaning of defund the police. Defund the police does not take money away from policing CRIMES. It redirects money to social workers, crisis teams, etc., to deal with non-crime related responses. It frees up police to deal with crimes. Defunding the police means they actually have GREATER ability to respond quickly. While you may not have quite connected the dots yet, your desires are actually in support of defunding the police.

@ A-166 Oh Sigh is right...! You have a delusional view of policing based on someone who has never been on the street... I suggest you run your "law enforcement theories" by someone who is a professional law enforcement officer. When New York City crime was out of control in the early 1990's , Giuliani and Chief Bratton started an aggressive policing policy of "broken windows".... IT WORKED. Woke politicians and ACLU card holders should have little to any POV on policing at this point in time.

This is a flat out lie ! There was no police defunding. In fact,it was the opposite. Try turning of fox misinformation channel and get off facebook

SBM : You obviously don't like it and are trying to retropedal but the whole mantra of the left has been "Defund the police" since 2020 !

7124 : Try to understand the meaning of the words you read : DEFUND means exactly that ! If you and your likes meant to say something else : you should have said it!
Words are clear : Defund means Defund and nothing else !

Spin spin spin… they were very clear defund meant exactly defund when they pushed it. It was only later they tried pivot “we didn’t really mean defund literally…”, yes they did Don’t re write history.

The sky is falling! It’s all Obama’s fault! Lmao

VOR, doesn't it make sense to operate on CURRENT meaning of a movement?

"the whole mantra of the left has been "Defund the police" since 2020 !" - no it hasn't. That's not the "whole mantra" of anyone other than a minority fringe group that doesn't represent all Democrats. Aren't you and VOICE always here complaining about how some paint all Republicans with a broad brush?

Pot meet kettle, rules for thee but not for me.... remember?

Just for the record, the “defund the police” movement and slogan was not embraced by most left-leaning people. Obviously the slogan is bad and misleading. Sure, there are some people who want to disband law enforcement entirely. But very few. Most of us want effective, fair policing. We don’t want people killed by police for minor infractions. And we don’t want to coddle criminals, but we want rehabilitation when it’s possible. Put more money into effective K-12 education so we can put less into prisons.

You are obfuscating the meaning. Yes, there may be slightly fewer cops, but the cop:crime ratio will be much higher. So still, the result is that you get greater, faster, and more focused response to crime. It is too bad they chose the name "defund the police" as the motto, because the benefits of moving both money and responsibilities around actually benefits everyone, including those who want more police response to criminal activity.

You think defunding the police caused THAT? Try again, look into capitalism.

Agree! Find out who they are, charge them, the example is important to set. When you have a society that allows behavior like this then it is the behavior we will see... limits are needed, many people push until the find the limit and if they can get what they want without working for it why bother working?

Let's all get along? How about not spreading misinformation? Proposition 47 did not end the prosecution of thefts under $950 in California.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-160551360299#:~:text=CLAIM%3A%20Under%20Proposition%2047%20in,petty%20theft%20to%20go%20unprosecuted.

Where is Santa Maria mentioned? Anyone who needs to know would know where the Milpas 7-11 is.

It was in the headline of the original post. Edhat staff have corrected it.

Creekmoe, it's on the north side of Milpas and Gutierrez, in front of a proposed very large development.

402 N Milpas St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, they had just "Reopened?". Can't even get the Indy there anymore (;

Then walk up to the store and ask. If you really trust the news / local police reporting system to cover everything then go ahead and turn a blind eye. There is a lot more crime going on in SB than many realize.

And you don't think that if a mob of students looted the place it would be news?!