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I'm pretty sure in CA it's that police do not respond to calls for anything less than felony theft. So it creates a situation where you can walk in the store,
by Workaccount2 5y ago
I'm pretty sure in CA it's that police do not respond to calls for anything less than felony theft.
So it creates a situation where you can walk in the store, grab what you want, and then walk out with out having the police called or anyone legally allowed to stop you.
- ceejayoz 5y ago> So it creates a situation where you can walk in the store, grab what you want, and then walk out with out having the police called or anyone legally allowed to stop you. Walmart and Target, among others, reportedly monitor small thefts and let you get up to the felony threshold over multiple incidents before swooping in.
- everybodyknows 5y agoAn option not available to small businesses, as the shoplifters have no doubt already learned. Another hidden tilting of the playing field against small business.
- hpkuarg 5y agoYes, exactly.
- a9h74j 5y agoSo will we see a startup: Uber for alternative policing to whom small retailers submit surveilance camera footage, and expect a series of crimes to be merged into a single case?
- BuyMyBitcoins 5y agoThat’s actually a pretty compelling idea. Not necessarily the alternative policing part (private police?), but compiling hard evidence against offenders and handing that to the authorities.
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- sneak 5y ago"They were robbing the store, and I think one of them had a machine gun!"
- keeganpoppen 5y ago"i think they had some counterfeit $100 bills as well"
- dcolkitt 5y ago“Yes, that’s right. The shoplifted said he was going to use all the stolen merchandise as part of his unregistered securities exchange.”