Detergent and deodorant, toothpaste, the entire shampoo aisle. “It’s all locked up,” Corey Potter sighed, describing shelves encased behind security glass at a Target near her Echo Park home. “Locking a product,” a spokesperson for CVS said in an email, “is a measure of last resort.” Retail theft has become a priority for California leaders in recent years. “These measures …
CLAIM: Under Proposition 47 in California thefts under $950 will not be prosecuted. “What Prop 47 did was take very low level crimes like petty theft, some petty drug offenses, petty larceny, and classify them as misdemeanors rather than felonies,” said Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine, who wrote a study examining …
