Good question: I think we know the answer, at least in California, Chicago, Cleveland, and soon-to-be Mandami City

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And no, it’s not just evil”corporaations” who are hammered by the refusal to prosecute shoplifters and other miscreants

Thousands of NYC Shoplifting Cases Committed by Just 327 People - The New York Times

Is American Urban Culture Beyond Repair? Pt. I: Retail Reparations

Ben Bartee, PJ Media:

Examining the deleterious impacts of modern urban culture on the American social fabric and its future prognosis.  

For the first installment of “Is American Urban Culture Beyond Repair?”, we’ll survey the national retail scene.

U.S. retailers, I can assure you, are utterly unique in the world in terms of keeping even run-of-the-mill personal hygiene supplies worth a few bucks under lock and key due to rampant theft — particularly in the post-Floyd era, after he martyred himself to emancipate razors and tampons from department store shelves.

If there exists a land outside of American borders where common, cheap goods like toothbrushes are secured behind glass, I haven’t seen it — and I’ve tramped all over the Third World. (Which begs another question, one I plan to explore at some point coming up in this series: Why, if poverty is the main driver of crime in urban America, does wanton retail theft not exist at nearly the same rate in much poorer countries?)

In our first exhibit, a feral child at a local Walmart randomly destroys merchandise while onlookers watch.

Eventually, in a nearly perfect microcosm of the social forces at play here, an ad hoc team of store clerks and good Samaritans attempt to intervene to stop the wanton property destruction… until a white woman, almost certainly a Kamala voter, steps in to aid and abet the child’s vandalism, as products lay broken and strewn all across the floor: “Don’t yell at her. Don’t film her. Don’t stop her. You don’t know what she’s going through!”

Here, an Ohio woman goes merchandise-harvesting (the term “shopping” implies she might have intended to buy something at some point) at Target.

Here is the timeline of events:

  • Makes her way through the checkout line

  • Declares after her items are rung up that Target ought to comp her loot, worth $1,000, as a spontaneous form of reparations

  • Threatens and assaults manager after her request is politely refused

  • Backs security guard into office, screaming threats

  • Asks “Do you know who I am?” to police officer when he shows up like she’s the mayor or something

  • Feigns indignance when she is asked to present ID

  • Describes her attempted larceny as her “Rosa Parks moment”

  • Does the black power fist at officers to “make a stand”

  • Gets arrested for menacing and disorderly conduct after her ten-minute civil rights sermon