Jackson Jambalaya

Why the hell does Mary let a place like this exist anyway? Gimme a break.....The Ulta Store? Two obese women steal multiple bags of fragrance and run jump into a car with no tag and speed away. WTF?

Grandview Blvd.

I see that street all of the time in “Madison the City” crime reports.

Rapid access and egress has dramatically improved in that area.

Crap, we better move 3/4ths of a mile to the north. That will solve everything. Like it always does.

They need to upgrade their security cameras. There is a company called Hikvision that makes super cheap 3MP cameras you can get from Amazon.

I would NOT hit it.

$5 gets you $10 MadisonPD will not only catch them but will learn they are a couple of our fine "Capitol City" residents.

If you build it, they will come and ruin it. Been that way since the first boat.

"They call it paradise
I don't know why
You call someplace paradise,
kiss it goodbye"

Don Henley and Glenn Frey, "The Last Resort"

That whole area is inundated with cheesy little store-fronts with cheap rent and shit merchandise. It's Mary's contribution to the concept of diversity.

No different from other areas in The Metro that might feature nail salons, check cashing, 'ten cent stores', South of The Border Heartburn Cafes and fingernail polish outlets. The names might be different, but the draw is identical. All we need now in 39110 is Cash For Titles and that isn't far off. Can a Police Precinct be far behind?

@8:39 Actually Ulta is a higher end store. It's not like all the weave stores in Jackson. It actually sells nice products. But yeah, the close access to the interstate often brings in the trash.

Wonder why people in the Grab 'n Go Program don't practice their trade in liquor stores? My guess is they like to drink as much as they like smelling nice. It's a real mystery. Wait...could it be that the people working in liquor stores are usually armed? The rest of the retail world could learn something here. I'm not saying you should shoot someone over some perfume or a bottle of whiskey, but knowing that the person you're stealing from has a gun on his hip or under the counter might cause the thief to reconsider his options.

And I've read so many times on here that crime does not spread out of Jackson to the suburbs. That somehow some magic wand keeps crime out of the suburbs. That crime will never come to Madison or Rankin counties. Well, I'm guessing these thugettes are residents of Madison because there's no way that criminals get in a car and drive to a suburb to commit a crime.

The difference is you are not seeing repeat offenders in those two counties. Once they commit a crime in Rankin or Madison, that is usually it for awhile. There is no $10,000 bond on armed robbery to go kill someone. There aren't 8 continuances agreed to by prosecution so the perp can go kill someone. There is going to be some crime from Jackson but when they grab them, that is it. Ask Eddie Devine.

They were just shopping for stocking stuffers to go along with the donated freebies under the tree. Facial recognition software that can be run against DMV Licenses and ID Cards isn't far away.

Don't really know why y'all are whining. The great Mayor Mary has let Sams come next it will be Target. People crime is coming to our city. Our bubble is slowly bursting

10:03 says 'Ulta is a high end store'. I wonder if that's the reason not a damned one of us has ever heard of it. And, by the way....what's the definition of 'high end' fingernail polish and 'high end' hair relaxer and 'high end' bubble-bath?

@10:03 I would assume you are either a male since it is marketed toward women or you don't buy nice makeup and hair supplies as a woman. Or possibly you don't follow the Nasdaq since it is a publicly traded and well known company than most any woman was excited about.. upon hearing it was coming to Mississippi finally a few years back. Nice comment though smart*ss.

@ 10:03 "what's the definition of 'high end' fingernail polish and 'high end' hair relaxer and 'high end' bubble-bath?"

High end in this case means that it was manufactured in a really nice part of China.

At the end of the day, none of these tiny stores that measure 14 feet across the front ought to be in our midst. They can open or close over-night and are magnets for............well, fill in the blanks. You get what the hell you deserve when you open these shit stores.

Why is anyone opening and investing in NEW massive brick and mortar strip centers? That type of shopping is going by the wayside. Talk about a shortsighted plan. Eventually those places will become cash n check type places for people who don't have the Internet.