A nationwide retail theft epidemic cost the United States close to $100 billion in 2021. Stores are being forced to raise prices or shut up shop, insurers are refusing to help, and smaller mom and pop stores are being left behind. In this series, Mayhem on Main Street, the Washington Examiner will…
A nationwide retail theft epidemic cost the United States close to $100 billion in 2021. Stores are being forced to raise prices or shut up shop, insurers are refusing to help, and smaller mom and pop stores are being left behind. In this series, Mayhem on Main Street, the Washington Examiner will investigate the causes behind the scourge of shoplifting, the role of the cartels, the cost to stores big and small, and the complicity of lax prosecutors.
Retail crime in urban areas is one of the well-documented factors for these store closures, but an increasingly accommodating environment for organized retail crime and viral surveillance footage capturing brazen incidents of thievery has magnified the problem. California has been the poster child for this controversy, raising its threshold in 2014 via Proposition 47, a ballot measure bankrolled by Democratic megadonor George Soros. After its passage, theft of items under $950 could only be prosecuted as a misdemeanor, if prosecuted at all.
The state tried to course correct in 2020 with Proposition 20, which would have classified more crimes as nonviolent felonies, but Californians rejected the measure by a margin of about 24%. That case stands in contrast to other prosecutorial decisions, such as those that occurred in blue cities during the stunning incidents of mass looting captured on video in 2020 at the height of the George Floyd protests.
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