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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol PLatt Liebau: The Real Victims of Our Shoplifting Nightmare
Description: America crossed an unhappy threshold last year. Shoplifting cost the retail industry about $100 billion dollars. And this isn’t just a series of one-offs. It’s highly organized retail crime—coordinated robberies designed to take advantage of laws loosened in the wake of George Floyd’s death and/or woke DA’s who refuse to prosecute. Forbidden to intervene, store employees must watch helplessly as their workplaces are robbed, sometimes multiple times daily. The thieves most often aren’t desperately stealing a loaf of bread. Rather, they’re hardened criminals using profits to fund drug purchases. Hardest hit...