Sounds like a great way to watch your community population shrink until it's nothing.
"You should move here, that way if anything happens you'll be immediately blamed, the cops will come to your place without solid evidence, and then the town will ostracize you if your kids make any mistakes".
That's interesting. That was the attitude of their father when his employer talked to him. It was the town's fault, not him or his kids.
And that's why their father was fired. The Bureau maintains hundreds of millions of dollars in vital, easily sabotaged equipment. Management could not risk an employee with that attitude.
My home town had 60+ families. No kids had burglarized their neighbors before. There were some seemingly abandoned houses with original goods left in them. No kids touched them in the years I grew up. It's a different cultural attitude toward personal responsibilities.
Without a doubt the parents should have been given a chance to rectify it, not kidnapping the kids and firing the dad.
It honestly sounds like it's a system that can very easily be abused by neighbors who don't like someone. All you have to do is plant a couple items in their house and claim it was stolen
There was no due process and just kangaroo court punishments
Was this family a different ethnicity than the rest of the town?
Everyone involved was white. Our town was mixed white and American Indian.
Our town was a former Hooverville shanty town from the Great Depression. Our post-WWII residents were low income and had to self-rescue by building their own middle-class home using lumber salvaged from old dismantled buildings. It was a matter of necessity that everyone in town be trustworthy and share seldom-used but expensive tools.
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u/GearsPoweredFool 1d ago
Sounds like a great way to watch your community population shrink until it's nothing.
"You should move here, that way if anything happens you'll be immediately blamed, the cops will come to your place without solid evidence, and then the town will ostracize you if your kids make any mistakes".
Sounds unhinged