Was it a Mistake to Defund the Police? (Asks Local Idiot) The Free Money Glitch to High Crime

In this gripping episode, we explore the rising crime rates in major U.S. cities, focusing on new crime trends and their impact on local businesses. We dive into the implications of advanced surveillance technologies like Amazon Go's 'Just Walk Out Technology,' and discuss shocking incidents such as the TikTok 'Chase Money Glitch.' Examining societal perceptions and police responses, we debate tough-on-crime policies, including drastic measures like mass incarceration and execution. Additionally, we explore the ethics of creating penal colonies for repeat offenders and the distinction between intellectual property and personal crimes, ending on a lighter interaction through social media. Join us for an in-depth analysis of crime, justice, and societal responses. ​

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Speaker 2: Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about an interesting topic. One is new forms of crime and crime waves that are hitting major American cities at the moment and transforming the nature of business in these cities.

Speaker 6: If you could walk into a store, grab what you want, and just go. What would shopping look like?

Speaker 7: Oh my god! Call the police!

Speaker 6: Welcome to Amazon Go. We call it Just Walk Out Technology. Piece

Speaker 8: of s**t. I'll be overdosed.

Speaker 2: recently. There was a TikTok trend. . That was called the, the chase money glitch.

Speaker 20: Twins, Twins, I'm not even gonna lie. I'm not even supposed to condone this type of behavior due to the direction that I'm trying to project my life in. But that Chase Bait Plate looking too sweet right now, Twins. No cap. I can just hit one Chase Bait Plate.

Speaker 18: The f**k man? They really told me to tap in next day I was supposed to [00:01:00] clear look at my account yo

Speaker 24: Cause I have 30, 000 in credit card debt. When they call, I tell them I can't pay it back yet. Credit card debt

Speaker 3: I'm so excited about this.

Speaker 2: is despite what people think there is actually pretty strong evidence that crime in the current day and age is at one of its highest levels in human history.

Speaker: That's meaningful because normally the trend is, oh, you watch the news, you think crime is so bad when really crime has never been lower and violence has never been lower.

Speaker 2: If you crime is going down. Just to quickly know where this number comes from. Specifically, what they do at is they correlate crime rates across cultures with homicide rates, which are much easier to track in absolute amounts, right? Because many

Speaker: people have things stolen from them and just never report it or even that reporting just gets lost.

And so it's not good. And then what they

Speaker 2: do is they correlate the homicide rates. with [00:02:00] correcting for survival rates due to advances in medical technology. And when you correct for that, what looks like a dropping crime rate is actually a quickly rising crime rate,

Speaker: right? Because the issue is that in what really we were looking at was, Oh, our hospitals have gotten a lot better.

It's not crime has gone down. It's that now when you get shot, you're more likely to live, which is

Speaker 2: nice. I guess. I'd also be going over a phenomenon where police have basically given up, or it looks like from the data, people are just not being convicted anymore. Can you blame them? Also, a lot of people are getting elected at all.

I mean, it's, it's such a thankless job today, but let's get into the data. Cause this is going to be a very data heavy episode and some of the individual claims here,

Would you like to know more?

Speaker 2: Well, the statistic I wanted to find that I just thought was absolutely insane and I'm going to find it somewhere is that in NYC, your average retail store is being robbed on average once a day.

Okay. So I decided to do the math on this. [00:03:00] Since 2021 full year numbers of shoplifting incidents have escalated up to 59,000. , and that. Represents a nearly 35% increase. So I took this 59,137 number. And then I looked up how many stores are in Manhattan and there are 750, , and that gives us a. Any given store in Manhattan is robbed on average. 79 times per year.

Speaker 2: At this point, but the big thing that's changed recently, and they'll always talk about like, Oh, crime rates are down to where they were before the pandemic, but that's just not true.

Yeah. Actually, robberies have risen 5 percent year over year. As anyone who has been to a place like Manhattan would know, like Manhattan, now every store, everything is locked up, like everywhere you go. CVS in Manhattan recently, Simone.

Speaker: Yeah. Everything is locked up. You have to wait forever to get someone to unlock the shelf door.

To help you, which is very annoying,

Speaker 2: right? And [00:04:00] that now new forms of crime because it's so easy to rob people has started where one form of crime started where, because the New York had these outdoor seating areas for the restaurants during COVID that weren't really part of a restaurant. People would just go up and rob everyone who was sitting at them you know, do a stick up, ask for their wallets, their phones, everything like that.

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Speaker 2: And now they become more brazen and they're moving into within the swanky parts of New York just going directly into the wealthy restaurants and just robbing everyone in the restaurant. And then driving away and this has become a new type of crime this year that like, I guess people hadn't thought of [00:05:00] doing before, just no,

Speaker: this used to be, this is, I always used to see this as you know, stick them up, you know, you go in and you you point a gun at everyone in a restaurant or something.

There's that famous scene. From I think a Quentin Tarantino movie that it starts with a couple being like,

Speaker 5: No more liquor stores? What have we been talking about? Yeah, no more liquor stores. And if it's not the gooks, it's these old f ing Jews who've owned the store for 15 f ing generations. You've got Grandpa Irving sitting behind the counter with a f ing magnum in his hand. This place? A coffee shop. What's wrong with that? Nobody ever robs restaurants. Why not? Restaurants, you catch with their pants down. They're not expecting to get robbed.

Customers . One minute they're having a Denver omelette, next minute someone's sticking a gun in their face. A lot of people come to our restaurants. Buy the wallets. Pretty smart, huh?

You, honey bunny. Everybody be cool, this is [00:06:00] a robbery!

Any of you f ing pricks move! And I'll execute every

Speaker: yeah,

Speaker 2: it's a Pulp Fiction.

Speaker: There you go. So I always saw that as like the classic crime, but that never happened. People didn't do this at fancy restaurants. Not historically. You did it at like Yeah, you did it at a diner, but the smart people do it at fancy restaurants.

I'm just glad people have come around. But one Cinematic magic taking place. I mean, and why wouldn't

Speaker 2: these people be doing this? You know, somebody's pointing out in the comments of one of the videos I was watching of this that if you steal less than a thousand dollars a day, you're not going to get jail time in the U.

S., but if you don't pay 500 in