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This points more towards organized crime rings targeting stores, taking large amounts of the same popular items, then reselling them on eBay or Amazon. If you
by photochemsyn 1y ago
This points more towards organized crime rings targeting stores, taking large amounts of the same popular items, then reselling them on eBay or Amazon. If you have a smallish number of people doing a largish number of crimes, this won't be reflected in incarceration statistics (particularly if the resellers rarely get caught).
- chaps 1y ago"This points more towards" -- you have any source towards this? :)
- dfxm12 1y agoWhy selectively put this onus on the person you've responded to and not the person at the top of this thread?
- chaps 1y agoUm. The same could be said to you? I don't see what your point is.
- germinalphrase 1y agoI know that in recent years Target has announced that they were investigating, in partnership with local and federal law enforcement, organized theft rings. It was publicly reported on here in Minneapolis.
- chaps 1y agoMany, many of those claims were found to be significantly exaggerated. It bothers me immensely that people still talk about this nonsense. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-retail-lobby-confesses-it-lied-about-organized-shoplifting-rings https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-ret...
- UncleMeat 1y agoEven the organized crime ring panic was made up. The data presented to congress was completely wrong and various organizations had to publicly eat crow about it.