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“The organized (retail theft) folks blow through the $2,500,” the governor said. ... executive director of the Criminal Law & Justice Center at the University of California, Berkeley, School ...
California Gov. Gavin Newson on Friday signed 10 bills aimed at cracking down on organized retail theft. ... over theft and drug crime reform in California dates back to 2014, when voters passed ...
Many district attorneys argue that California's Organized Retail Theft (ORT) statute, amended by California lawmakers in 2021, is not an effective tool to charge offenders because it's too ...
The law is the last of 13 pieces of legislation at the center of a political saga at the state Capitol over how the state should address organized property crimes.
The National Retail Federation’s 2023 security survey showed businesses’ nationwide shrink rate — losses caused by external theft, employee stealing and systemic errors — was 1.6% in 2022 ...
Newsom often repeats that California already has some of the toughest theft laws in the nation. Stealing property worth $950 or more will result in a felony theft charge, compared to other states ...
According to a Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) study of data from the DOJ, a statewide increase in overall retail theft between 2019-2023 was mostly driven by "11 of the state's 15 ...
At the crux of the debate over the bills to curb theft and fentanyl abuse are diverging views of Proposition 47, a decade-old California law that downgraded some nonviolent drug and property ...