124 - Super Smash & Grab Bros.

With Britney out of commission, the boys hold it down this week to talk about the Omicron variant, the panic over crime and policing, and the epidemic of people being cool and doing crimes. The West’s vaccine hoarding has come back to haunt us with a new Covid variant. Despite press and police freak outs over defund activism, cops have more money than ever. The supposed crime spree of smash-and-grabbers is just another element of the false narrative that cops prevent crime. But you already knew that. And for our wildflower, the Portland Loo project. 

 

Omicron: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/28/world/covid-omicron-variant-news/told-you-so-african-countries-feel-the-brunt-of-the-wests-scattershot-pandemic-response 

 

Police departments spend more than ever: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Despite-calls-to-defund-Capital-Region-16632083.php 

 

Smash & Grab Nation: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/why-some-us-cities-are-facing-a-spree-of-smash-and-grab-crimes/38337956

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/us/smash-and-grab-thefts-explainer-cec/index.html

 

https://theappeal.org/retail-theft-ben-dugan-cVs-walgreens-shoplifting/ 

 

Prefab Public Restrooms: https://portlandloo.com/

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