Retailers statewide lost a combined $2.7 billion dollars' worth of goods to organize retail theft in 2021. FOX13
used the statistic to justify the need for a new organized retail theft task force on Thursday. It will be made up of local law enforcement, prosecutors and retail stores.The goal of the task force will be to provide better collaboration, and to share intelligence about groups of people who may be crisscrossing the state, targeting stores and pharmacies.
But it’s the small-time, constant shoplifting and lack of prosecution that have frustrated many businesses over the last several years., a theft going on as I’m checking out," recalled Johnson. "And I said, ‘That person’s stealing those backpacks. Are you going to stop them?’ They go, ‘It’s not worth me not going home tonight to my family to chase them out into the parking lot—they could be armed, they could have a weapon, I could get hurt, I could get bear-sprayed, stabbed, shot.
"What retailers have to balance out is the risk of a customer getting injured or killed, an employee getting injured or killed, or even the perpetrator—the suspect—getting injured or killed," said Johnson. "Is it worth it for that product that they may lose? And I would have to contend that there is no product or amount of product that can really replace that individual that may be hurt.
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