America's shoplifting hotspots: The top 11 cities with the highest rate of retail theft revealed - and San Francisco isn't number one!
1 year, 1 month ago

America's shoplifting hotspots: The top 11 cities with the highest rate of retail theft revealed - and San Francisco isn't number one!

Daily Mail  

Los Angeles has the highest rate of retail crime, new figures show Downtown San Francisco has developed a reputation as a breeding ground for theft in recent years. Instead, Los Angeles had the highest rate of 'organized retail crime' for the fifth consecutive year in 2022, according to a report by the National Retail Federation. A report by the National Retail Federation found Los Angeles had the highest rate of 'organized retail crime ' for the fifth consecutive year San Francisco came in second place and was followed by Houston, TX, New York City, NY, Seattle, WA, and Atlanta, GA. Sacramento, CA, and Chicago, IL came in joint seventh place. And with up to 70 per cent of those losses accounted for by theft, it means firms shoplifters stole approximately $78.4 billion And earlier this month, Target announced it was closing nine stores across major cities amid soaring theft.

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Shoplifting ring stole $2M in cosmetics and clothes then resold them abroad, prosecutors say
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Shoplifting ring stole $2M in cosmetics and clothes then resold them abroad, prosecutors say

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A shoplifting ring that stole nearly $2 million in clothes and beauty products from Macy’s and other well-known stores in the U.S. and then resold them in New York City and the Dominican Republic has been busted, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday. Five New Yorkers have been charged with felony possession of stolen property, conspiracy and other …

The UK's shoplifting hotspots: Interactive map reveals areas with highest number of store thefts - as inquiry finds number of reported crimes are a just a 'drop in the ocean'
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The UK's shoplifting hotspots: Interactive map reveals areas with highest number of store thefts - as inquiry finds number of reported crimes are a just a 'drop in the ocean'

Daily Mail  

A new interactive map reveals the UK's shoplifting hotspots, with the scale of the crisis varying dramatically area by area. Police data shows the North East takes the top spot for shoplifting crimes, with a rate of 11.5 per 1,000 people - 35 per cent higher than the national average. Shoplifting in England and Wales surged by 26 per cent …

Stop trivialising ‘devastating’ high street thefts, police urged
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Stop trivialising ‘devastating’ high street thefts, police urged

The Telegraph  

According to official figures, there were 443,995 incidents of theft from shops recorded by police in the year to March 2024, up 30pc on a year earlier. The British Retail Consortium estimates that there are 17m incidents of shop theft every year, costing retailers almost £2bn every year. Lord Foster said there was more to do to educate the public …

Britain's shoplifting shame: Stores are suffering two thefts every minute as retail theft hits highest level since records began
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Britain's shoplifting shame: Stores are suffering two thefts every minute as retail theft hits highest level since records began

Daily Mail  

Britain's stores are suffering two thefts every minute as retail theft has hit its highest level since records began. Chief constables now face questions about policing priorities after official data revealed nearly 6,000 crimes went unsolved every day last year, with 40 per cent of all recorded crimes going unpunished. Almost 444,000 shoplifting offences were recorded by forces in England …

Shoplifting at an all-time high with 1,300 offences recorded every day, new figures show
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Shoplifting at an all-time high with 1,300 offences recorded every day, new figures show

The Independent  

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New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting
4 months, 1 week ago

New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While shoplifting has been a growing problem, large-scale, smash-and-grab …

New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting
4 months, 1 week ago

New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. The move comes as Democratic leadership works to prove that they’re tough enough on crime while trying to convince voters reject a ballot measure that would bring even harsher sentences for repeat offenders of shoplifting and drug charges. “We know that retail theft has consequences, big and small, physical and financial,” state Sen. Nancy Skinner, …

Thief swipes $1,000 worth of deodorant from Agoura Hills store, leaves no scent
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Thief swipes $1,000 worth of deodorant from Agoura Hills store, leaves no scent

LA Times  

Authorities are searching for the person who stole more than $1,000 in deodorant from a CVS in Agoura Hills on March 17. Talk about a clean getaway: A man wearing blue medical scrubs made off with over $1,000 worth of deodorant in a heist that has confounded authorities for weeks. The deodorant caper happened on March 17 at an Agoura …

Democratic lawmakers introduce legislation to target organized retail theft, online resellers
10 months, 1 week ago

Democratic lawmakers introduce legislation to target organized retail theft, online resellers

LA Times  

A guard watches the entrance to a Louis Vuitton store, which had its windows boarded up near San Francisco’s Union Square in November 2021. The legislative package, authored by Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, will focus on so-called organized retail theft crime rings, which are blamed for the uptick in the high-profile, smash-and-grab incidents plaguing California. …

The Shoplifting Epidemic Touted By Fox News Is Likely Overblown, Data Shows
1 year ago

The Shoplifting Epidemic Touted By Fox News Is Likely Overblown, Data Shows

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING There is a retail crime wave terrorizing Americans — if you’re tuned in to conservative media. After looking through a video database of Fox programming over the last five years, Media Matters found a very small number of retail theft mentions between 2019 and 2020 — just 35. Considering how many national outlets are based in New …

Retail group pulls back on claim organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of inventory loss
1 year ago

Retail group pulls back on claim organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of inventory loss

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, has revised a report released in April that pulls back the claim that organized retail crime accounts for nearly half of overall industry shrink, which measures overall loss in inventory, including theft. The revision of the group’s organized retail crime report on Dec. 1 follows an analysis …

REVEALED: America's worst cities for shoplifting - and why crime-ridden San Francisco has surprisingly NOT seen biggest increase in theft
1 year ago

REVEALED: America's worst cities for shoplifting - and why crime-ridden San Francisco has surprisingly NOT seen biggest increase in theft

Daily Mail  

The worst cities in he U.S. for shoplifting have been revealed - and surprisingly to many, the crime-ridden city of San Francisco did not take the top spot. A study using law enforcement data compared current rates of shoplifting in 2023 to pre-pandemic numbers from 2019 in 24 major U.S. cities San Francisco - a city renowned for theft, drugs …

Shoplifting surged a staggering 64% in New York City in the past four years - with Los Angeles also seeing a 61% spike
1 year, 1 month ago

Shoplifting surged a staggering 64% in New York City in the past four years - with Los Angeles also seeing a 61% spike

Daily Mail  

Shoplifting continues to be a major crisis in America's two largest cities, as thefts increased 64 percent in New York City and 61 percent in Los Angeles over the last four years. Six other major American cities have Shoplifting continues to be a major crisis in America's two largest cities, as thefts increased 64 percent in New York City and …

Shoplifting hits record high of 1,000 offences a day
1 year, 2 months ago

Shoplifting hits record high of 1,000 offences a day

The Telegraph  

Shoplifting has hit a record high of 1,000 offences a day, an unprecedented 25 per cent increase in a year, official figures showed on Thursday. However, the detection rate for shoplifters has fallen to a record low with just 18.2 per cent of offences being solved, less than half the 46 per cent when records began in 2016. The figures …

Retailers lost up to $80 BILLION to theft in 2022 - up by $13 billion in a year
1 year, 2 months ago

Retailers lost up to $80 BILLION to theft in 2022 - up by $13 billion in a year

Daily Mail  

Retailers lost almost $80 billion to shoplifters last year, an increase of nearly $13 billion, amid a frightening rise in violent thefts in Democrat-run cities. And with up to 70 per cent of shrink accounted for by theft, it means retailers lost approximately $78.4 billion to shoplifters. The NRF's survey found that thefts, such as this one pictured taking place …

Which major California city has the highest rate of car thefts? Hint: It’s not L.A.
1 year, 2 months ago

Which major California city has the highest rate of car thefts? Hint: It’s not L.A.

LA Times  

A car after it was broken into in Los Angeles in 2020. The total number of car thefts in California rose by 1.9% in 2022 to a total of 198,538, according to the California Highway Patrol’s 2022 California Vehicle Theft Facts report. Oakland, a Bay Area city with a population of about 400,000, has nearly 12 car thefts per 1,000 …

California targets smash-and-grabs with $267 million program aimed at ‘brazen’ store thefts
1 year, 3 months ago

California targets smash-and-grabs with $267 million program aimed at ‘brazen’ store thefts

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will spend $267 million to help dozens of local law enforcement agencies increase patrols, buy surveillance equipment and conduct other activities aimed at cracking down on smash-and-grab robberies happening around the state. The grants, to be distributed over the next three years, will help local law enforcement agencies create investigative units, increase foot patrol, purchase advanced …

Thieves target stores every TWO seconds in Britain, costing retailers more than £1billion last year alone, shocking figures show - as Suella Braverman backs a Mail campaign to end the shoplifting epid
1 year, 3 months ago

Thieves target stores every TWO seconds in Britain, costing retailers more than £1billion last year alone, shocking figures show - as Suella Braverman backs a Mail campaign to end the shoplifting epid

Daily Mail  

The Mail on Sunday today reveals the shocking reality of the epidemic of shoplifting that is blighting Britain, as we launch a major campaign to crack down on the crime. The Mail on Sunday's campaign – calling for the police, Crown Prosecution Service and courts to be much tougher with shoplifters, and for a change in the law to make …

Opinion: Are Southern California mob robberies part of a retail crime wave? It’s complicated
1 year, 3 months ago

Opinion: Are Southern California mob robberies part of a retail crime wave? It’s complicated

LA Times  

Retail crime is having a moment. Total retail “shrink” — usually cast as a proxy for theft — was $94.5 billion in 2021, up from $90.8 billion in 2020, according to the National Retail Federation. Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ulta Beauty, Dollar Tree, Foot Locker, Home Depot, Walmart and other retailers also identified crime as a growing problem this earnings season. …

Arrest shoplifters even if they steal goods under £200, says policing minister
1 year, 3 months ago

Arrest shoplifters even if they steal goods under £200, says policing minister

The Telegraph  

He said that unless stringent action was taken, British cities could end up like San Francisco, where shops were forced to close because of an escalation in violent shoplifting. He told Parliament two months ago: “We have seen that elsewhere in the world – I think in particular about San Francisco, as well as other American cities – where both …

Column: Businesses keep complaining about shoplifting, but wage theft is a bigger crime
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: Businesses keep complaining about shoplifting, but wage theft is a bigger crime

LA Times  

A flash robbery caught in progress at a Nordstrom store in Canoga Park this month. Former Home Depot Chief Executive Bob Nardelli went on Fox Business the other day to warn that a surge in shoplifting by organized gangs showed that America was descending into “a lawless society.” “We’ve got to get this back under control,” Nardelli intoned gloomily, after …

With tech workers gone, what is the future of San Francisco?
1 year, 4 months ago

With tech workers gone, what is the future of San Francisco?

Al Jazeera  

Changes on Market Street, once the city’s commercial heart, are leading to questions about its future. A trendily dressed woman with a dog called David Ababseh out of his office at the Chai Bar cafe on San Francisco’s Market Street. The changes on Market Street, once San Francisco’s commercial heart, are leading to questions not only about the city’s future …

Editorial: L.A.’s smash-and-grab robberies are terrible, but not spurred by criminal justice reform
1 year, 4 months ago

Editorial: L.A.’s smash-and-grab robberies are terrible, but not spurred by criminal justice reform

LA Times  

An estimated 30 to 50 people participated in a brazen daytime robbery at the Westfield Topanga Shopping Center shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The Los Angeles Police Department is reportedly increasing patrols as a response to recent flash mob robberies, and that conceivably could shore up shoppers’ confidence. For example, we should be …

A 'mob of criminals' stole more than $300,000 worth of goods from an LA Nordstrom
1 year, 4 months ago

A 'mob of criminals' stole more than $300,000 worth of goods from an LA Nordstrom

NPR  

A 'mob of criminals' stole more than $300,000 worth of goods from an LA Nordstrom Enlarge this image toggle caption @noelskeez/Screenshot by NPR @noelskeez/Screenshot by NPR The Los Angeles Police Department said a "mob of criminals" ransacked a Nordstrom department store in Topanga on Saturday, stealing more than $300,000 worth of products in broad daylight. Sponsor Message Police said on …

San Francisco Target store is being shoplifted every 10 minutes
1 year, 7 months ago

San Francisco Target store is being shoplifted every 10 minutes

Daily Mail  

It comes after a number of major chains announced they would be closing their stores in San Francisco due to soaring crime figures Workers have said that they watch people 'shoveling stuff' into bags and as a result multiple products are now placed behind plastic barriers. Employees say the San Francisco store near Union Square has been experiencing a theft …

What’s really going on with crime in San Francisco?
1 year, 7 months ago

What’s really going on with crime in San Francisco?

CNN  

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. It’s a storyline that CNN reporter Kyung Lah experienced back in March when she and a crew went to San Francisco to report on how crime has scrambled the city’s politics. And then we’re going to see if other types of businesses move in – the types of businesses …

The US stores that closed their doors due to rampant theft
1 year, 8 months ago

The US stores that closed their doors due to rampant theft

Daily Mail  

Major retailers in the US have been forced to shut down stores due to millions of dollars in losses as rampant theft plagues big box stores across the country. Major retailers in the US have been forced to shut down stores due to millions of dollars in losses as rampant theft plagues big box stores across the country Walmart Walmart …

Walgreens executive admits retail theft concerns are overblown: ‘Maybe we cried too much’
1 year, 11 months ago

Walgreens executive admits retail theft concerns are overblown: ‘Maybe we cried too much’

The Independent  

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U.S. retailers add cameras, steel cables to deter holiday crime
2 years ago

U.S. retailers add cameras, steel cables to deter holiday crime

The Hindu  

Retailers ranging from Walmart to Barnes & Noble are installing cameras or locking away items to deter shoplifters and thieves as they brace for a post-pandemic rush of holiday shoppers this year. Crime has been in the spotlight since a spate of brazen, violent store thefts - including a "smash and grab" incident during the holiday season last year where …

Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise
3 years ago

Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise

LA Times  

A security guard watches the entrance to a Louis Vuitton store with boarded-up windows in San Francisco on Nov. 30. The country’s largest retail industry group, the National Retail Federation, estimated in its latest report that losses from organized retail theft average $700,000 per $1 billion in sales — or 0.07% of total sales — an amount roughly 330 times …

DAs, retailers say California needs tougher retail theft law
3 years ago

DAs, retailers say California needs tougher retail theft law

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Spurred by a recent run of large-scale smash-and-grab robberies, prosecutors and retailers are pushing back on assertions by California’s governor and attorney general that they have enough tools to combat retail theft in the wake of a voter-approved easing of related laws. “We cannot function as a society where we have told people over and over again …

LA authorities announce arrests in smash-and-grab robberies
3 years ago

LA authorities announce arrests in smash-and-grab robberies

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Los Angeles on Thursday announced more than a dozen arrests in recent smash-and-grab thefts at stores where nearly $340,000 worth of merchandise was stolen, part of a rash of organized retail crime in California. At a joint news conference, both Moore and Mayor Eric Garcetti called for an end to a no-bail policy for some …

LA luxury mall latest to be hit by smash-and-grab thieves
3 years ago

LA luxury mall latest to be hit by smash-and-grab thieves

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — A group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall in Los Angeles, triggering a police pursuit just days after high-end stores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area were targeted. Michel Moore, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said the agency would beef up its visible patrols around high-end stores citywide beginning …

A new breed of brazen takeover robbers hitting California luxury retailers, raising ire
3 years, 1 month ago

A new breed of brazen takeover robbers hitting California luxury retailers, raising ire

LA Times  

Union Square visitors look at damage to the Louis Vuitton store on Sunday after thieves ransacked businesses late Saturday night in San Francisco. Gavin Newsom described the incidents as “people smashing and grabbing, stealing people’s items, creating havoc, terror in the streets.” Newsom said he was speaking not just as governor but as a business owner. California Bay Area hit …

Rising retail thefts in Connecticut mimic broader US trend
3 years, 1 month ago

Rising retail thefts in Connecticut mimic broader US trend

Associated Press  

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — Recent instances of retail thefts at Connecticut stores are reflecting a nationwide trend. Video posted online last week showed two men and a woman loading up a van with items from a supermarket in Southington then driving away in a van with no license plates. Experts also say stores are using a less confrontational approach to shoplifters …

Empty shelves in New York drug stores as shoplifting surge hits city
3 years, 2 months ago

Empty shelves in New York drug stores as shoplifting surge hits city

The Independent  

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Brazen shoplifting spurs California law for organized thefts
3 years, 5 months ago

Brazen shoplifting spurs California law for organized thefts

Associated Press  

LONG BEACH, Calif. — With violent smash-and-grab shoplifting costing California businesses millions of dollars annually, Gov. “When they see these things go viral, the perception of lawlessness, the perception that anything goes — that has to be overcome, too.” Nationally, organized retail theft costs businesses tens of billions of dollars annually. The union that represents San Francisco rank-and-file police officers …

California homicides jump 31% in 2020, reaching highest total in 13 years
3 years, 5 months ago

California homicides jump 31% in 2020, reaching highest total in 13 years

LA Times  

Homicides in California jumped 31% last year, making it the deadliest year since 2007, and Black people accounted for nearly one-third of all victims as the nation’s most populous state struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns over racial injustice, according to reports released Thursday. California’s 2019 homicide rate was the lowest since 1966, and rates of violent and property …

San Francisco confronts surging crime, drugs and homelessness as it tries to bounce back from Covid-19
3 years, 6 months ago

San Francisco confronts surging crime, drugs and homelessness as it tries to bounce back from Covid-19

CNN  

San Francisco CNN — Mark Dietrich and his neighbors didn’t know what to do with the luggage and purses they found dumped in the street. Suspected burglars hit again and again, police chief says From the San Francisco Police Department’s perspective, recent crime problems boil down to two factors: not enough cops on the street and a revolving door of …

San Francisco’s chain drug stores have a shoplifting problem
3 years, 6 months ago

San Francisco’s chain drug stores have a shoplifting problem

CNN  

CNN — A brazen daytime shoplifting incident captured on video at a Walgreens in San Francisco on Monday has highlighted what local officials say has become a consistent problem, particularly for chain drug stores in the city. “Unfortunately, this is another example of blatant retail theft which is an ongoing problem for several retailers in San Francisco,” Walgreens spokesman Phil …

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