After radical politicians in big blue blob cities across America signaled to criminals in the summer of 2020 that crime would not be punished and that police were the enemy, looting has gone mainstream as gangs now shoplift entire inventories from stores with brazen disregard for authority. The poor, unarmed security guards tasked with fighting retail theft are helpless as the shoplifters become more aggressive and bold in their tactics. The Washington Times’s Sean Salai reports:
Businesses have cited the rise of online shopping and declining in-store profits for pulling out of urban centers from San Francisco to New York, but insiders see a deeper problem: Unarmed security staff’s inability to keep employees and merchandise safe is driving away workers and shoppers in big cities with soft-on-crime policies.
• Last week, armed thieves stabbed a loss prevention officer who attempted to stop them from looting a Safeway supermarket in Kensington, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia.
• In December, a thief fatally stabbed a Macy’s security guard in Philadelphia.
• In April, a Home Depot security guard in Pleasanton, California, was gunned down after he caught a woman stealing.
Walmart and Target each eclipsed $500 million in retail theft losses last year, so the retail giants’ store closures in cities “where theft has gotten out of control” are no surprise, said Kristin Moss, chief ambassador for DealAid.org, which offers online discounts for more than 10,000 U.S. retailers.
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