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The upkeep and cleanliness of Sam Farah's convenience store could rival any in North Dallas.

"You don't think this store is in Oak Cliff," Farah said proudly of his investment.

But, crime is crippling his investment.

"Shoplifting is killing me," Farah added. "Shoplifting is killing me."

He said it costs him about $3,000 a month.

With 16 surveillance cameras inside and out, he has the video to prove it. Last week, a mob of people descended on his store all at once after midnight .

"They start trashing the store [and] eating," Farah said while watching surveillance video of the incident. "It's like they're robbing the store."

While several paid, the rest ate, drink and stole before police could get there, Farah said.

"We had to clean up for two hours," he said. "Plus, merchandise is gone. A bunch of merchandise is gone."

Farah estimated he lost up to $500 that night.

Shoplifting is common. Farah shared one clip from earlier this year that showed a man stealing a package of incense from a stand by the front door then running through the parking lot.

Customers have also attacked employees, according to video reviewed by News 8.

Plus, cashiers are seeing more counterfeit money. Someone passed a $100 bill recently that had a watermark of Abraham Lincoln, meaning it's really a $5 bill.

But someone apparently bleached Abe away and reprinted it with Ben Franklin and $100 markings.

Part of Farah's problem, officers said, is that three large apartment complexes are nearby his store.

Dallas police said officers have responded to 26 calls for help from his store this year, most coming within the last month for crimes like shoplifting, disorderly conduct and even aggravated assault.

DPD has made seven arrests. But, Farah wants zero tolerance and even posted a "Wall of Shame" outside his store that shows crooks his cameras caught.

"I worked hard," Farah explained. "I worked very hard to cut down on these crimes. I want somebody else to work with me."

Farah is spending money to build a restaurant, barber shop and cell phone store next door. He said he can't afford to hire off-duty police now, and short of keeping customers out or closing at dusk, he's beginning to wonder whether it's really worth investing in south Oak Cliff.

On Sunday, another store owner was murdered across the street from Farah's property. Police arrested one suspect and are still looking for two others.

Despite problems at Farah's store, Dallas police said crime in this part of town is declining. The rate is down 4 percent this year compared to last.

Overall, since Dallas police opened the South Central Station in 2007, a lieutenant said crime is down 38 percent.


http://www.dallasblack.com/resource.aspx?id=cfd70a52-0312-4659-aa1f-96
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Must be a rich neighborhood!

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http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/black-mob-trashes-dallas
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Must be a rich neighborhood!

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Ah yes, the "Kwicko, it's okay to steal from the wealthy" philosophy.

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The video speaks for itself.

There's a universal blind spot in the MSM to ignore race , where ever possible.

Routinely, I'm hearing reports on the radio, of this or that criminal activity, where the perp is identified as a " male, about x ft tall, and weighting at x lbs, wearing ... "

No mention of race, what so ever.

Caps and even wigs can hide hair color, clothes can cover tattoos and the like, but rare is it that a criminal will conceal their entire body, head to toe, with out an square inch of skin showing.

But, in honor to the above daleygator link...

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Care to show me where I've ever said "it's okay to steal from the wealthy"? You can't, because it's not a position I hold to. Thanks for being sure to assign positions to me that I've never expressed, though. ;)

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Care to show me where I've ever said "it's okay to steal from the wealthy"? You can't, because it's not a position I hold to. Thanks for being sure to assign positions to me that I've never expressed, though. ;)

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Never stopped you before from doing the exact same to others.


So, what's good for the gander, isn't so good for the goose ?

Huh.

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Good to know you answer to the name "Hardware" now. ;)

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Good to know you answer to the name "Hardware" now. ;)

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Never have, and have no plans on ever starting to. Maybe you need a reading comprehension refresher.

Or a brain.

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So why were you responding to a post I directed specifically at HW? Just to throw in another of your inane, asinine responses?

Or did reading comprehension just EPICALLY fail you?

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And isn't this one of those posts that HW whines about all the time, that seem to imply that we're all doomed? Apparently he finds black people far more scary than nuclear meltdowns. I'm totally shocked to learn that. Really. ;)

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I have plenty of reasons to dislike any one of many minorities.

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So, Kwicko, fuck you. I'd wish you and your whole family would be anally sodomized with a porcupine. Except you'd probably enjoy that.

When your argument is being defeated, come up with a better argument instead of attacking the opposition. I don't think you are capable of learning that lesson however.

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So I see a pattern here of right-wing assholes posting up their new favorite thing: "flash crimes" by "gangs of black thugs", with little to no substantiation other than relying on the old tried and true stereotypes of "everybody knows" and "that's how they all do".

So if I inferred that you're a racist, it's only because of the patterns I see in your behavior.

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Sometimes I think they just act out their visciousness in a more obvious way. If you are a hispanic gang member you might rob at the end of a gun. The wealthy and powerful have more subtle ways of fucking us all over.

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I agree with Magon's about gangs. Back in the day you had the Bowry Boys and the Plug Uglies, now you've got the Vicelords and the Bloods etc. Its always poor folk or folk who identify with their poor neighbors. Back in the day the Irish boys were running around killing, they were the poor ones, now its other people. But the concept holds firm.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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It's plain that the Left wing's response to this is like anything else they can't defend.

Ridicule it, ignore the actual problem, and then poorly segue onto a completely different, irrelevant non issue, and say " see ? exactly the same! Nothing new here, move along "

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White man good. Black man bad. Woof.

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White man good. Black man bad. Woof.

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Who is committing the violence ?


You don't care.

Why is it being committed ?

Again, you don't care.

Woof.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Astonish me, Rappy. Why don't you answer these questions? Why don't you try to do it in a thoughtful way, based on some deep thinking about the issues? Why don't you put up a post that is not a video link or a 3 line cliche, but something with some substance.

I'll happily discuss with you anything you like, will happily and respectfully agree or disagree depending on your views, but I reckon I'll be eating my dog's Pal with extra Meaty Bites before any of that happens.

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