Comments on: Dallas businessman calls cops 100x to report local crime. And then… https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/dallas-businessman-calls-cops-100x-to-report-local-crime-and-then/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:58:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hearing might be required before city can close business under nuisance-abatement law | Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/dallas-businessman-calls-cops-100x-to-report-local-crime-and-then/comment-page-1/#comment-358019 Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:58:15 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73903#comment-358019 […] Earlier this month we linked the story of a Dallas car wash owner whose business was shut down by the city under a nuisance abatement law because it was deemed to attract crime, even though the owner was not alleged to have done anything to further the crime and in fact had called police many times to complain about it. […]

]]> By: Ras https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/dallas-businessman-calls-cops-100x-to-report-local-crime-and-then/comment-page-1/#comment-357780 Sun, 02 Feb 2020 20:10:32 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73903#comment-357780 Please enlighten me how, if they can destroy your life over their own (in)action, this doesn’t incentivize vigilante justice against the criminals instead?

]]> By: jdgalt https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/dallas-businessman-calls-cops-100x-to-report-local-crime-and-then/comment-page-1/#comment-357762 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:22:44 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73903#comment-357762 This law amounts to a new and rougher kind of “heckler’s veto” on the existence of any business, and gives those who might profit from such a taking a huge monetary incentive to cause one by causing crime (or at least the perception of crime) around the targeted business.

I wonder how long this incentive will be in place before someone takes advantage. Or maybe that’s what’s already happening in this very case.

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