Chicago police tell businesses to buy riot glass to prevent burglaries

[reason10]

Direct from the I'M NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP file.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/chicago-police-department-tells-businesses-buy-riot-glass-product-prevent-burglaries

Chicago Police Department tells businesses to buy Riot Glass product to prevent burglaries

In a community alert sent out after a string of burglaries in Chicago's Wicker Park and Humboldt Park, police recommended businesses use ArmorPlast, a type of invisible shatterproof shield produced by a company called Riot Glass that is installed over existing glass, to protect themselves, according to a CBS News report Monday.

The advice came after a string of burglaries in the area, with Chicago Police noting that most of the burglaries showed similar characteristics. According to the alert, thieves typically break in from side or front glass windows using rocks, bricks or a crowbar, then enter the business to steal money and other items such as liquor.

Chicago Police specifically pointed to ArmorPlast in the alert, which founder Brad Campbell says can help keep thieves out of businesses.

"We want to keep the bad guys outside the building - and that's what the product does," he told CBS News.

According to Chicago Police Department data, burglaries in the city are on pace to reach 2,253 this year, which would represent a 6% increase over 2022 numbers.

The rise in what some have called "smash and grabs" have employees in businesses throughout the city on edge, with some reporting being the target of multiple burglaries in recent months.

Obvious questions/talking points.

1. Why do the animals who perpetrate these smash and grabs believe they could get away with this? Could it be that they aren't afraid of the police or an armed public. (Wait. Chicago DISARMED its public.)

2. Why doesn't this problem exist in Miami, FL (Oh, that's right. Miami invested in policing to solve the problem of those animals.)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/miami-simple-solution-america-crime-surge

3. Why don't you see this problem in small Florida areas (like Polk County, where the Sheriff has told his deputies and armed civilians to shoot to kill)?

4. Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to let the store owners buy AR15s and handguns and not prosecute them when they put down an animal who is trying to break into their store?

5. Would those animals get the message after a few hundred are PUBLICLY shot to death in the middle of the commission of a crime.

 

Go ahead. Tell me how wonderful gun control has been for Chicago.

 

[Guest]

Chicago is a write off city. I mean, the mistake is opening a business near any area rife with crime. I mean, any city where a shooting can have a police officer pull up, and then just drive off, is not a city you want to invest in. That's the first mistake.

If you have investment capital, you're wiser to take it elsewhere.

 

[reason10]

10 hours ago, Perspektiv said:

Chicago is a write off city. I mean, the mistake is opening a business near any area rife with crime. I mean, any city where a shooting can have a police officer pull up, and then just drive off, is not a city you want to invest in. That's the first mistake.

If you have investment capital, you're wiser to take it elsewhere.

 

It will stay that way as long as Chicago is stupid enough to keep electing Democrats to run it.

On the other hand, don't forget that New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani actually SLASHED crime with his policies. So Chicago's location is not an automatic failure. Just needs competent leadership.

[herbie]

Or business owners with enough brains and not too cheap to display goods behind shatterproof glass without needing a cop to tell them that.

[Nationalist]

11 hours ago, herbie said:

Or business owners with enough brains and not too cheap to display goods behind shatterproof glass without needing a cop to tell them that.

LOL...What a dumb excuse.

[Guest]

14 hours ago, herbie said:

Or business owners with enough brains and not too cheap to display goods behind shatterproof glass without needing a cop to tell them that.

You do realize you can go to a developing country and not see this.

I shouldn't have to spend tens of thousands of additional dollars, to protect my store.

Bulletproof glass isn't cheap.

Do yourself a favor, and get a quote on a 4x8' pane of such glass, and tell me a small business owner can afford to deck out their entire store with it, or even their displays.

Fix the brazen crime problem.

If tax dollars don't pay for policing, then what do they pay for?

 

[herbie]

Good God the epitome of someone without a business clue. Typical  "I shouldn't have to, everyone else should change instead" snivelling response.

Over 25 yrs running a storefront in a tiny remote town, I needed bars in the windows, alarms and cameras to protect the valuable merchandise inside.

But the other 2.5 milluon people should behave, I shouldn't have to spend a nickel...

No damn wonder there's no public health down there, the very same attitude's like a tumour on the American brain.

[Legato]

38 minutes ago, herbie said:

 

But the other 2.5 milluon people should behave, I shouldn't have to spend a nickel...

 

Yes, holy mackerel, for once a correct statement.

[Guest]

57 minutes ago, herbie said:

Good God the epitome of someone without a business clue. Typical  "I shouldn't have to, everyone else should change instead" snivelling response.

What are you talking about?

If you look at cities like San Francisco where people can walk into a store and just casually grab s*** and your goverbment or police doesn't do a thing but recommend you do something about it because they certainly won't, this isn't a business issue.

Cameras, bars, no problem. Alarms, you bet. 

Time delayed locks on multiple doors if in a jewelery shop. I could go on. 

I understand business security and of course don't want to get robbed, so would adapt my business to the times.

However, if you need to individually lock items in your store, and we aren't talking high cost items, but toothpaste and deodorant, just maybe something is incredibly f***ed up, socially or with policies being applied.

Of course if my gas station was getting hit up and I had the money I would be first on the list in hiring heavily armed security detail for my property.

The fact someone has to do this, for a gas station no less, is pathetic in the US. 

This is third world country standards, here.

[herbie]

The last time my store was robbed they stole a couple customer's laptops that were on the repair bench. They couldn't READ the boxes to steal the new ones and the desktops, printers, monitors were too heavy. They would've had to bend down to see the 8GB USB sticks, so they stole all the 1 & 2 GB ones at eye level.

They got caught because the next night the RCMP responded to another alarm in the building and they'd smashed the window of the old Sear's mail order depot and were pushing a lawn tractor across the paved parking lot, still unassembled and on a wooden skid. They told the cops they were picking it up for someone and were pushing it across the lot to their pickup truck. The cop told them they were dumb - most people would drive the truck over to the store not push something so heavy all the way to the truck. He commented "I suppose you're the id10ts that broke into the computer store last nighr too!"
"OMG! How did you know that was us? We wore hoodies"

Just a reminder that there are stupid people and bad people out there and you have to deal with that fact. Not gripe that someone else didn't.

 

Edited May 8, 2023 by herbie

[NYLefty]

I'm pretty sure I can't name a single business be it in urban or rural areas that don't spend a sizeable amount of money providing security to their shops. Even more so in rural areas from what I've seen. The OP just once again proved his ignorance