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  The fact that an officer faces demotion for this -- not firing -- is everything that is wrong with policing.
context: She was scanning her items when she caught the attention of a loss prevention officer who was watching the store's surveillance video feeds. 
  The officer saw that Bell "took one item in her right hand and another in her left hand, proceeded to scan the item in her left hand, but not the item in her right hand," according to the agreed statement of facts.
  Bell placed both items into her bin and continued, the loss prevention officer noted, until she paid her bill for the items she scanned and headed to the exit.
  The loss prevention officer then caught up with her and arrested her in the vestibule between the exit doors. Once she was back inside the store, Bell identified herself as an Ottawa police officer.
  The store determined that Bell paid for groceries totalling $87.46, while stealing items worth $87.68, nearly the exact same amount.
  
  So, no, an officer didn't have a "senior" moment of forgetting to ring up a bell pepper. She intentionally tried to game the system and got caught. >
  
  I get nervous about this sometimes lol. I have no idea how closely they watch at stores or how much they let go but I'm always thinking I'm gonna fuck up and steal a can of soup or something
  Honestly it's made me go to a real cashier when I have a lot of stuff to get through >
  
  My local Walmart is pretty fancy... The self checkout has an AI or something watching you scan. Any suspicious scanning and it immediately calls for assistance, and you can't scan until a worker clears it. Happened to me a few days ago because I scanned something, turned to show my wife (went slightly out of frame), and turned back to put it in the bag. The machine stopped me and showed me a clip for my suspicious scan (which did look a little sus).
  Canadian Walmarts really have someone watching self checkout screens all day? >
  
  
  Canadian Walmarts really have someone watching self checkout screens all day?
  
  Judging by the \~3 minutes it took for someone to give me a bag when I pressed the "ask for assistance button", I'm guessing not.
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  They have cameras and scales and it shows you the footage of yourself on screen, but I've never seen it replay it (although I'm not there often). >
  
  Walmart self checkouts are gonna turn into shoplifting highlight reels with big screen TVs running weekly "Top 10 Most Suspicious" categories like Sportscenter but for shoplifting. Which is ironic because Walmart loves stealing wages from their employees. >
  
  What employees… there is one cashier now watching 50 customers fuck up at scanning… >
  
  If they didn't want us to fuck up scanning, and they dont trust us, then they shouldn't have forced that responsibility on us in the first place! >
  
  It is called shadow labor and this is the price they need to pay for making the customer do the job. >
  
  well not everybody fit to do it! It is unfair and is taking a jobs away from people who need income... they do this because they worry about the profit level for the one who is on the top and making close to 20,000 an hour... >
  
  The taking away jobs argument is invalid imho. Should we go back to sending telegrams instead of texting because it took jobs from the telegram delivery people? >
  
  A cop from my hometown was busted for stealing $5k from the funding for a private gym in the police station. He had to pay it back, but that's it. He was still a cop. >
  
  Sounds eerily similar to how people of wealth and privilege avoid the consequences for their actions.
  It sends a clear message to us all, they might say they are like us but when it really comes down to it the slogan actually means blue lives matter more. >
  
  It also sends the message: if you’re a shitty person, the safest job to get is being a cop. I don’t know if this is actually true, but handling matters this way definitely sends this message, and can be expected to attract the wrong people to the profession. >
  
  Anecdotally, it’s true.  Before the interwebs and proliferation of police beating videos, just locally in the Northeast, the worst dudes were the ones that became cops. >
  
  It's always been that way. It's a job that attracts people who like power over others. >
  
  In my experience it also attracts people who like to work a system - minimal labor, rules they can bend to their favor, pension after 20 yrs. >
  
  A law enforcement officer who disregards the law to the point that they steal has no place enforcing laws for other people. They shouldn't have a job. >
  
  Yeah.  Demoted? >
  
  "could be" demoted. >
  
  Demoted with pension. >
  
  We are demoting you too "on vacation" for two weeks then back to your old job. >
  
  "Make sure to stock up on grocery supplies during this paid time off" >
  
  I arrested a small town cop at a home depot for stealing two high dollar window alarms, the type that you put on your home windows that ding when the sensor disconnects. A bunch of city cops showed up and phone calls were made. She left without us signing a ticket on her and as far as I know nothing ever happened. >
  
  Should just ban the entire police department from shopping at your Home Depot. I say that, but I know if you did that, they wouldn't show up in any emergency if you had to call them. Cops hold a grudge and WILL be childish when they get caught. >
  
  Back when I worked at 7/11 the cops stopped responding to any calls made because we wouldnt give them free coffee (company rule).  I was 19 at the time and worked 5:30am-1:30pm by myself.  I guess I should be grateful women weren't 'allowed' to work the graveyard shift. >
  
  coffee is like a couple bucks. What a bunch of turds. >
  
  Mothefuckers lie about their overtime and collect ridiculous stacks of taxpayer cash and then refuse to do their job if they have to spend any of it on anything.    
  Knew a cop who was earning $125k and he got upset if you brought it up while he was trying to engage in cameraderie with people who were actually struggling financially. Piece of shit wanted the sympathy his poor friends were getting while earning ten times their wage as a bachelor with no kids. >
  
  I think it was queen city news that did a multi-part story on police officers stacking over time. They figured out when they were suppose to work and would secretly follow the officers around video taping them. Sometimes they wouldn't leave their home all day, other times they went and worked a second job as a security guard.