Blaming "crime" is incorrect and suggests a lack of understanding of the dynamics at play. 1) Pharmacies don't want workers going after shoplifters. It's a lia

Blaming "crime" is incorrect and suggests a lack of understanding of the dynamics at play. 1) Pharmacies don't want workers going after shoplifters. It's a liability if the worker gets hurt, and even if the shoplifter gets "caught", now the witness needs to show up at the trial for it to mean anything criminally. In other words, the company has to pay the worker NOT to be in the store. The LEA has to pay the cop that responds to be in court. They don't want this. The company's goal is to get the police involved only insofar as is necessary to get an insurance payout. 2) No one wants to go to jail for stealing shampoo. They're doing it because the options for decent work are limited. A shoplifter grabbing $200 of merchandise and selling it for $100 is making 3/4 a day's worth of the cashier's pay in like an hour (partly because corporate workers for that company are overpaid and making that in 1-20 minutes). The solution has always been and remains to stop f*cking around with income inequality and opportunity hoarding, as a society.