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Why is it considered a felony rather than simple theft or shoplifting?

In the thread, they describe how the company waited until they had recorded multiple instances of theft by the suspect until the total amount of stolen goods had exceeded the threshold for a felony.

This is the kind of work and effort you have to put in when the legal system stops caring about small dollar value theft. This isn't some anti-california thing either, I don't believe the cops when they say they don't go after small dollar crimes because of the DA because cops having been ignoring small time crime my entire life. They're just too lazy.

When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw I don't want to".

> When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw don't want to".

I would probably see it more like low priority bugs in an issue tracker. They only get done when there's nothing with higher priority or someone takes a person personal interest.

A family members identity was just stolen by a low level medical records employee. This woman is passing bad checks with a fake ID and her identity. Daily she is getting called about it, and it's luck she hasn't been arrested or needed credit.

The police will do nothing, because our governments are responsive to nothing because they don't have to be. Safe seats and gerrymandering have rotted out Democracy.

The perverse incentive here is that if the legal system doesn't do their job, they will still have on-demand access to the dystopian corporate surveillance structure built to cover their negligence.

When did cops say they don’t “go after” theft? I believe they don’t prioritize investigating it, but they can’t refuse to take a report

"Taking a report" doesn't do anything to solve the crime; it's simply paperwork for things like insurance, to prove that a crime happened.

The complaint is exactly that they "don't prioritize investigating it", because that is the point where police are actually providing a useful service.

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