Jackson Jambalaya

But Madison is our "safe space" they say. I think it's more like "build it and they will come".

Is it just me, or does Madison have a program to replace teir cop cars by crashing them into a criminal at 12-14 months age? (where is the sarcastic smile emoji?)

wonder whether the perps havwe liability insurance?

Silly Libs. Madison is safer than your hellhole because we actually catch and prosecute miscreants.

We are not uneducated enough to think its immune to your lot.

We just don't let them run amok the way you all do.

Has anyone noticed the number of thefts, crashes, arrested people being from out of town, and we're not talking about 50-100 miles. What's up with that? Is it not odd that a person from Michigan is with a person from Florida while doing shady stuff in Madison, MS? Just seems odd.

low information criminals

10:30am, agreed. I know personally over a dozen MPD colleagues, and they have wrecked not only their cars but our task force ones, with great regularity. That is, a couple of guys, who are hot dogs.

Some are outright dangerous due to over aggression and overdoing it. Witness the high speed chases through frontage road intersections at 100 mph. Management in other agencies is aware of the hot dog hot foot problem children. Not just MPD either, but they are the worst on vehicles and collisions.

Not dissing being confident and professional, but killing some kids in a minivan or a postman is not worth it for a shoplifter.

But, yeah, ain't it great for taxpayers to fund your self insured road rocket? Free gas, free damages, free repair. "Tip of the Spear!" More like meat heads with a badge some days. And it blows budgets.

Looks like a lot of bottled water in that vehicle pictured. Personally, I'd have shopped the beer aisle with is next to the water isle.

"...alerted to a vehicle in the area that was reported to be involved in a felony shoplifting/theft and assault in Missouri."


Looks like those license plate scanners are working!

Police chases can be very dangerous to others. The police should only get into a hot pursuit if the perp is an immediate danger to someone.

10:30, pay a little more attention next time and look at the photos. The MPD officer didn't crash his vehicle into the criminal's car to stop it. To the contrary, the criminal ran into the SIDE of the MPD car as it was turning off Hwy 51 and onto Madison Avenue.

What's going on is in the liberal states that release criminals on no bond/no jail these criminals leave the and commit crimes in other states. We need a uniform law and order system for all 50 states.

These out-of-towners are looking for easy pickings. They obviously failed to do their research. Professional shoplifting requires better planning.

I see them doing fund-raising to help replace those damaged vehicles.
Writing tickets on Old Canton Road.

"[Police] were alerted to a vehicle in the area that was reported to be involved in a felony shoplifting/theft and assault in Missouri."

What they mean to say is a license plate camera alerted them. The ones that watch where you come and go every day, all day.

There are alternative strategies that work to catch fleeing criminals in these low level crimes.
Some of you need to live in this century.
That includes looking at, for examples, Miami's guidelines for police chases in high traffic areas.
Movies and television shows are not the best source of information.

8:24, I am certain, absolutely certain, that all the privacy data stored by the hundreds of static and mobile license plate readers in Madison and Rankin County are well protected by their extensive security and data policy measures.

I'm sure KF has requested the public records of MPD, RPD, MCSO, RCSO, FPD, and others just to even see how many MILLIONS of reads they have stored. Much less what are the penalties for giving to your divorce lawyer or boyfriend or etc. Right?? LEO readers will be "sssshhhhhhhhh!!!!!! this is our end run on actually running down leads and getting warrants or requests in writing!! " We might hit a drug money cache like Pearl!!! Shhhhhhhhh.

I am equally certain that the License Plate Readers used by these Well Regulated Home Owners Associations, bastions of professional competency and security, are also well protected from abuse. KF writes a lot about them losing money, so we know the HOAs are at the top of their game, along with all the private sector businesses here using them.

Right??? You mean, there is not even a data Policy, whatsoever??? They can collect on you and yours FOREVER, without a warrant, without data policy, without even a need, and give it to anyone anywhere???? That's what is going on.

Sure, it's not like they have folks at the FBI sucking in all this data too, just in case you're a Republican or don't "celebrate" socialism.

Yes, it catches crooks, but we just again paid for more police cars for someone else's problem which is a shoplifter from Missouri. We pay 40,000 dollars. For a 800 theft. But, but, they "maht be dangerous".....

Again, Madison being "the World's Policeman" because they have every road and car being watched by LPRs, with impunity, and no consequences for high speed chases and wrecks over shoplifters WHO ARE NOT FROM MISSISSIPPI.

To all of you thugs in Jackson. Please stay away from that dangerous city of Madison. For your own safety. Why we had a murder about 3 years ago. That is the last one I remember. Of course, the murderers were caught and were Jackson State students who drove to Madison (city) to murder a Jackson State professor who I assume had moved to Madison to avoid the gunfire, car thefts, car jacking, robberies, etc.

12:36 You obviously have a dog-in-this-hunt ...or have previously been caught up in a similar catch?

Easy solution... just don't be bad.

@ 12:36 - Bless Kingfish for allowing your post. I would hate to know your head exploded if you didn't see all that hard work hit the board.

"Yes, it catches crooks, but we just again paid for more police cars for someone else's problem which is a shoplifter from Missouri. We pay 40,000 dollars. For a 800 theft. But, but, they "maht be dangerous"....."

Let me see if I understand your warped sense of police work and justice. So, the law enforcement community should assume thieves are simply taking $800 worth of stuff and leave them be rather than risk wrecking a piece of law enforcement equipment. I mean, why risk 50k against a loss of less than 1k, right?.

The thieves are then emboldened and decide to work the entire shopping center. Having loaded up the trunk several times, they move on over to Highland Colony and hit the jewelry stores. But those merchants have insurance and can afford losses - so law enforcement doesn't respond.

I have no way of knowing, but it appears you might be accustomed to California code.