There was an article in today's Bristol Press that crime was down 23% in Bristol in 2016. I call bull on this.
I know of at least 10 times where the cops responded to incidents at the grocery store I was working at. Of the 10 8 of those were for shopping lifting. (5 of those involved energy drinks and other things, the others involved Tide detergent and other things). Another incident was because a creeper was following a woman around the store. And another incident was because an employee's car got broken into. (Is it really considered getting broken into if you were stupid enough to leave the car unlocked? The employee was arrested because when he was telling the cops what got stolen he including "3 dime bags of weed").
Then two of my former co-workers at the grocery store also work at the liquor store in the same shopping center and told me about several shoplifting incidents.
Then I'm friends with "manager" at Subway in the same plaza. I put manager in quotes because he's a floating manager and the owner of this Subway sends him to other Subway's he owns. He told me one Saturday morning a woman threw a brick through the window of a vacant store in the plaza. Apparently she was angry that the business had closed. The business "Jump N Jammin' was an indoor bounce house type place. And was located in the same strip of stores where Subway is located.
That seems like an awful lot of crime when crime is supposedly down 23%.
I know of at least 10 times where the cops responded to incidents at the grocery store I was working at. Of the 10 8 of those were for shopping lifting. (5 of those involved energy drinks and other things, the others involved Tide detergent and other things). Another incident was because a creeper was following a woman around the store. And another incident was because an employee's car got broken into. (Is it really considered getting broken into if you were stupid enough to leave the car unlocked? The employee was arrested because when he was telling the cops what got stolen he including "3 dime bags of weed").
Then two of my former co-workers at the grocery store also work at the liquor store in the same shopping center and told me about several shoplifting incidents.
Then I'm friends with "manager" at Subway in the same plaza. I put manager in quotes because he's a floating manager and the owner of this Subway sends him to other Subway's he owns. He told me one Saturday morning a woman threw a brick through the window of a vacant store in the plaza. Apparently she was angry that the business had closed. The business "Jump N Jammin' was an indoor bounce house type place. And was located in the same strip of stores where Subway is located.
That seems like an awful lot of crime when crime is supposedly down 23%.
