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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas lawmakers on Thursday considered new ways to combat retail theft, a growing and often organized, destructive threat facing stores across Texas. Law enforcement experts ...
The Senate inched closer Monday to final passage of the Laken Riley Act, which requires immigration officials to detain illegal migrants who engage in theft, shoplifting and related crimes.
CHICAGO — Shoplifting rates in the three largest U.S. cities — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — remain higher than they were before the pandemic, according to a report last month from the ...
Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property.
Gas theft cost the industry $109 million in 2008 and $134 million in 2007. The average loss per store in 2009 was $761, and that figure is conservative, since it only includes reported thefts and is based on all convenience stores that sell gasoline, including those in states that mandate full-serve ( New Jersey and Oregon ) and stores in areas ...
A store detective (also known as Asset Protection Investigator, undercover shopper, Loss Prevention Detective, and Asset Protection Specialist) is a member of loss prevention whose main role is to prevent and detect theft (commonly known as shoplifting) and reduce shrink in retail outlets. [1]
Nancy Laflin, a spokeswoman for the DA's office, said the office is doing everything it can to address shoplifting. New shoplifting laws that went into effect in June have led to stiffer sentences ...
A source who worked on the retail theft laws said AB 1960 originally didn't get signed along with the 10 other pieces of retail theft legislation, because of ongoing conversations that took place ...