Readers: Smash-and-grab robberies signal LA’s societal decay

To the editor: Main tales about current smash-and-grab robberies and extreme injury performed to accommodations that shelter homeless folks additional spotlight the continued social breakdown and deterioration in Los Angeles.

It’s disgusting and disheartening to see what is occurring to town through which I grew up and have lived my total life. I want to see a a lot stronger strategy taken to defending the law-abiding, taxpaying, hard-working residents of Los Angeles.

I’m a lifelong Democrat, however for mayor I supported Rick Caruso. Mayor Karen Bass could also be doing her greatest, however the present out-of-control crime scenario wants an emergency strategy and a a lot more durable hand.

I hope it isn’t too late to return our metropolis to a protected and clear place the place folks will need to stay and vacationers will need to go to.

Liz Sherwin, Los Angeles

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To the editor: What shocks me is how frequent these articles on smash-and-grab robberies have grow to be. There are additionally articles about drugstores and grocery shops inserting merchandise in locked cages to forestall shoplifting.

The commandment “Thou shalt not steal” reveals it was apparent 1000’s of years in the past that individuals shouldn’t interact in this type of habits, as a result of people can not stay in a society the place the property rights of others aren’t revered.

What we want as we speak is much less psychological-sociological dialogue on why folks steal and the foundation causes, and extra emphasis on the truth that nobody is above the legislation.

Invoice Gravlin, Rancho Palos Verdes

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To the editor: The underlying trigger of those incidents is the false dichotomy between “private” crime and “property” crime.

When somebody assaults a enterprise, particularly a small one, it’s a private crime — it ruins folks’s lives and livelihoods. This is the reason I consider that drive is justified towards these criminals when these burglaries happen.

Enterprise house owners and safety personnel needs to be indemnified towards legal and civil legal responsibility after they reply to those invaders with drive.

Michael Schaller, Temple Metropolis

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To the editor: I don’t like the concept of those thieves taking potential hostages, however I disagree that police shouldn’t attempt to cease these burglaries after they’re really happening.

I consider that potential copycats and the general public have to see the interruption of one in all these high-profile incidents and arrests made on the spot.

Joseph DeMello, Lengthy Seaside

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To the editor: The Occasions has known as these burglaries “flash mob robberies.”

I’m the proprietor of Flash Mob Las Vegas, and we offer shock leisure by dance and music. Please discontinue referring to those organized legal actions as flash mobs.

Flash mobs are leisure occasions that contain no such legal exercise. You’re giving what we do a nasty fame by mislabeling these unlawful actions.

Denise Lahav, Las Vegas