Retail Theft Impact on Purchased Goods

[Moserkr]

Tall tree and a piece of rope. It can stop pretty much all crime. An old trick forgotten because of weak men.

 

[SaskHunter]

We used to have Bum Fights!

I think it's time for "Thief Vs Minimum wage teenager" fights!!!

 

[SaskHunter]

Tall tree and a piece of rope. It can stop pretty much all crime. An old trick forgotten because of weak men.

Considering the US has the death penalty yet still the highest incarceration rate in the civilized world proves otherwise.

As per my last comment: Bum Fights!

 

[Laszlo Cravensworth]

Tall tree and a piece of rope. It can stop pretty much all crime. An old trick forgotten because of weak men.

Considering the US has the death penalty yet still the highest incarceration rate in the civilized world proves otherwise.

As per my last comment: Bum Fights!

Ya that's literally never worked to stop crime in all of human history.

 

[Nuts]

Considering the US has the death penalty yet still the highest incarceration rate in the civilized world proves otherwise.

As per my last comment: Bum Fights!

I think you can throw out the countries with either no criminal justice system, corrupt criminal justice system or those where there is but people take matters into there own hands with no repercussions. If you throw those out and go with countries with some sort of freedom where do we rank? IDK. Legit question.

 

[2rocky]

Now with facial recognition cameras and software , many retail loss prevention professionals are documented repeated theft by individuals to the point that losses mount to felony level of value before detaining them.

Retail theft cameras, especially those with AI, ALPR (Automatic License Plate Readers) for tracking vehicles, and body cameras on employees, provide crucial evidence (video, images, license plates) for prosecutors to aggregate small thefts into felony grand theft charges, leveraging new laws (like California's AB 2943/SB 905) that allow combining values across locations/time to tackle organized retail crime (ORC) rings effectively. These technologies help link crimes, identify offenders, and provide the itemized proof needed to meet felony thresholds and build stronger cases against repeat offenders and networks.

Would be interesting to see what other demographics corrollate with these time periods....

According to the council’s report, shoplifting incidents reported to the police rose dramatically in New York (up 64 percent) and Los Angeles (up 61 percent) between January 2019 and June 2023. Contrary to media accounts, reported incidents declined over the same period in San Francisco (down 5 percent), even accounting for a large spike in 2021. Similarly, police data shows that theft offenses in Washington, DC, including thefts from cars, fell from more than 25,000 in 2019 to roughly 21,000 in 2023. (DC data does not distinguish between shoplifting and other types of theft.)

It is not immediately clear what could be driving these discrepancies. In the case of New York, it is notable that shoplifting appears to have risen steadily since 2006, with an especially large spike in 2022. That suggests that, in many places, national trends in retail theft may be outweighed by local factors, some of them long running.

In these hard-hit localities, there may be signs of progress. According to more recent data, through the end of 2023, the increase in shoplifting offenses appears to be slowing in Los Angeles and potentially even reaching a plateau. In New York, the number of offenses may be declining, however slowly.

Maybe we can get Letters of Marque for retail....The producers of those Bounty hunter reality shows need another new angle....

"Letters of Marque 2025" refers to recent U.S. Congressional bills proposing to authorize the President to issue these historical privateering licenses, primarily targeting Mexican drug cartels (H.R.1238 by Rep. Burchett) and foreign cybercriminals/scam operations (H.R.4988 by Rep. Schweikert), allowing private actors to seize assets and persons related to these threats, reflecting renewed interest in non-traditional warfare authorizations against modern adversaries like cartels and cyber threats, as explored in bills like S.3567 in late 2025.

Key Bills & Proposals in 2025:

• Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act (H.R.1238): Introduced by Rep. Tim Burchett, this bill would authorize the President to commission private entities to seize cartel members and their assets for acts of aggression against the U.S.
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• • Cybercrime Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act (H.R.4988): Proposed by Rep. David Schweikert, this would deputize cyber operators to target foreign cybercriminal enterprises, recover stolen assets, and defend critical infrastructure.
  • Senate Bill S.3567: Introduced in late 2025, this bill also seeks to authorize the President to issue letters of marque and reprisal against cartels and their linked organizations.

 

[buckbull]

You know there is so much truth to that it's scarey.

A good friend of mine worked on the North Slope in the oil fields. One year the company gave them a really nice thing for the record profits they had.

Keep in mind where they're working...the company gave them a 24 hour a day self-serve ice cream maker in the break room for all their hard work. I guess it beats an ice machine.

You just can't make this shit up.

Whoever made that decision, clearly worth their CEO Pay.

I never let a little cold weather detract from my nightly rocky road indulgence.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I think you can throw out the countries with either no criminal justice system, corrupt criminal justice system or those where there is but people take matters into there own hands with no repercussions. If you throw those out and go with countries with some sort of freedom where do we rank? IDK. Legit question.

Serious answer,

If we have to exclude countries who thrive on extra-judicial killings and no justice system top make ourselves feel better, then how far away from them are we?

 

[Dougfirtree]

I mean, we're all paying more, to offset the cost of theft, with pretty much every purchase, everywhere. That's the only reason credit cards still exist.