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Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN. September 13, 2024 at 3:00 AM. A year ago, America’s stores declared a shoplifting epidemic. They closed stores in major cities, hired extra security, locked up key ...
Break-ins and thefts can happen at any small business, no matter how tight the security. In the retail sector alone, more than half of small businesses said they had been victims of shoplifting in ...
Public anxiety over shoplifting is an enduring phenomenon and is often a stand-in for larger concerns of cultural, economic or political changes What America’s shoplifting panic is really about ...
Kalief Browder. Kalief Browder (May 25, 1993 – June 6, 2015) was an African American youth from The Bronx, New York, who was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing a backpack containing valuables. During his imprisonment, Browder was kept in solitary confinement for 800 days.
A person in a store slipping an item into his pocket Notice warning shoplifters of prosecution in Subang Parade, Malaysia. Shoplifting, shop theft, retail theft, or retail fraud is the theft of goods from a retail establishment during business hours, typically by concealing a store item on one's person, in pockets, under clothes or in a bag, and leaving the store without paying.
Gibson's Bakery is a fifth-generation family business established in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1885. [5][6] Half of the city's 8,000 residents are students or employees—3,000 and 1,000 respectively—of Oberlin College. [7] Local merchants are reportedly frequent targets of shoplifting by students of the school. [8][9] According to police records ...
A legislative package in California will focus on so-called organized retail theft crime rings, which are blamed for the uptick in the high-profile, smash-and-grab incidents plaguing the state.
Between 1988 and 1992, four employees of the Bank of England's incinerator plant at Debden in Loughton, Essex, conspired to steal around £600,000 in banknotes that were due to be destroyed, in a series of thefts. [2] They changed padlocks on locked doors in order to be able to steal from piles of notes which had been taken out of circulation. [3]