Want to sell your jewelry? Duluth police want your picture
February 6, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Duluth police say they want to treat jewelers and antique dealers like pawn shops when it comes to their dealing in precious metals.
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Everywhere you go there is some kind of camera watching you and recording the date, time, etc..
ATM’s, stores, banks, bars, freeway cameras, gas stations, satellites over head, etc.
there is no end to this constant surveillance.
Is there any of us that have a choice left, now or in the future, not to be on camera ??
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Another case of more governmental control over the small businessman. Did you catch the part about being “licensed”? Another fee to pay for the price of living in Duluth.
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People, we are on the slippery slope of the Police State. I believe it is already too late. 1984
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This sounds a lot like the DPD saying, “we have no idea how to control the problem so we are going to treat everyone as if they are guilty.” I ask the DPD where does it stop? If I sell a my PS2 do I have to provide a mug shot in case your super sleuths discover 3 years later it was stolen? How about if I want to sell some CD’s or DVD’s? How long do you get to keep this data? Who else gets access to it? Sounds like a knee jerk reaction to a problem that was not very well thought out. How about the DPD gets better at solving crime overall instead of just chasing the latest trend in crime? I personally am not into pawning things but this just doesn’t pass the smell test.
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I wonder how big of a problem stolen jewelry has become in our pawn/coin businesses. My guess would be not that big of a problem. I read most of the 25 page provision on this new ordinance and it seems arbitrary and invasive. And I don’t believe it pertains to electronics, it’s specifically gold, silver and platinum.
I think the ordinance also pertains to sales. If a customer were to buy several ounces of silver or even gold, they would be photographed as well. Gold and silver may have topped out in price, but they will always be a great hedge against inflation or hyperinflation. Maybe i’m over the top, but this seems like a stint to help federal, state and local governments keep a closer eye on the people who are buying up precious metals. And of course, more regulating to control/sell/purchase them.
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Funny this comes out the same day as a story about a Dpd officer stealing money from a co workers locker.. and in the midst of half of Superior’s police department being under an investigation of some sort. Sort looks as though they should revise hiring practices before anything.
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People will be against this until their house gets broken into, and their jewelry stolen, never to be recovered. Been there!
Hot debate. What do you think?
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I can certainly see the appeal of this ordinance, and it would most likely help catch a few criminals….but at what price ? It does appear the police want you (private businesses) to do their work for them. Assuming anyone selling precious metals is a criminal (until proven otherwise) seems like the wrong way to go.
There is virtually no privacy now….and the government (and others too) seems to keep nibbling away at the crumbs we have left. From red light cameras, speed cameras, GPS devices planted on cars without the need of a search warrant (I believe this may have been recently ruled on by the courts in a negative way), infared cameras pointed at your house to see if excess heat may be casused by “grow lights”, to most of the items in the patriot act and on and on it goes.
Keep in mind, there is ALWAYS a great reason given to give up just a little bit of our privacy/liberty….it always sounds so reasonable and high minded….and of course only to be used by a benevolent authority…..until it’s not, and then it’s to late to reclaim any of your privacy rights. Wake up !
Blood was spilled to gain many of our “rights” as Americans….but we can sit home and watch TV and eat popcorn while we give them away a little at a time…..funny how hard it is to gain them and how easy it is to give them away.
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Another invasion of privacy for the convenience of the police…I say NO.
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I recently sold a couple silver bars in West. St Paul a couple of weeks ago, and they asked me for my id, made me fill out a special form, paid me via check instead of cash (for a whopping $57) and right before they handed me the check, advised me that they needed to take my picture. All because WSP’s new rules surrounding precious metals. I left feeling as though I had just committed a crime. To no fault of this store, I will not be going back there in the future, and will go to a different city.
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An amazing display of overreaching on the part of the Duluth Police Department. Do a better job of investigating and solve the crimes being committed rather than treating everyone as if they are guilty. Why not assign a few of 14 newly-added police officers to focus on property crimes. This whole approach screams of lazy policing.
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Sounds like just a good business pratice for the stores.
After all, if they get caught with stolen goods, they’re out whatever they paid for the stuff, as well as the stuff. And possibly could be charged with receiving stolen goods?
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New headquarters, new cars, and the DPD still wants business owners to do their work for them! Ridiculous.
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