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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Police in LA mount undercover surveillance teams to crack down on retail theft mobs that have plagued California retailers in brazen heists
2023-12-15
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Rolling up the little people to overwhelm the courts and prisons.
  • The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department retail theft task force and the California Highway Patrol have cracked down on mass retail theft

  • California has seen a spike in mass robberies in recent months

  • The Organized Retail Theft Program has returned $30.7 million in stolen merchandise to retailers across the Golden State
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  ^^^^^
Makers leave and takers flood in, and presto chango, 100 billion surplus becomes 60 billion deficit. Imagine that!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-15 13:52  

#7  Why has California lost over 500,000 residents taxpayers from 2020-2022 (last year Census estimates are available)?

FIFY. They're making it up with illegals. SCOTUS missed the 'bus' when it had an opportunity to restrict reapportionment to citizens.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-15 13:20  

#6  Why has California lost over 500,000 residents from 2020-2022 (last year Census estimates are available)? It's a total mystery.
Posted by: Tom   2023-12-15 10:48  

#5  guliani. broken windows.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-15 09:15  

#4  Require high definition video and license shop owner to shoot thieves. You'll see a great reduction in the problem.

"But its only property". No, its Western Civilization. Not noticing your population suddenly discovering they live in food and prescription deserts?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-15 07:28  

#3  Have the FBI infiltrate the gangs. That seems to be their expertise.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-12-14 14:52  

#2  Café owner in dying Oakland has had her car burglarized so many times she now leaves its windows down so crooks don't break the glass when they ransack her belongings
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-14 14:43  

#1  Brave moment elderly Bay Area worker pulls gun on gang of would-be robbers and sends them scrambling for the door as neighborhood's property crime soars by 13 percent since last year
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-14 14:42  

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