Mathew 24:12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
Important Takeaways:
- San Francisco Target store locks its entire product range behind security glass as crime spirals out of control
- The city’s residents continue to battle soaring crime, brought to light recently with the murder of Cash App CEO Bob Lee and the brutal broad daylight attack on the city’s former fire commissioner.
- Industry groups have noted that there is an issue with theft, with the National Retail Federation saying that organized retail crime is setting stores back around $100 billion a year, according to a 2022 survey.
- A Target store in San Francisco has locked its entire product range behind security glass as crime in the city spirals out of control.
- In 2021, retailers saw a 27 per cent increase in theft carried out by organized criminal rings, the survey found.
- Earlier this month, it was announced that Whole Foods is temporarily shutting one of its flagship stores in San Francisco just a year after it opened, citing concerns that crime in the area is endangering its staff.
- It followed Walgreens shutting down some of its San Francisco stores in 2021 due to theft.
- ‘Crime is worse than the data shows,’ ex-San Francisco prosecutor Charles Stimson told Fox News this month. ‘People do not report these crimes because when you have a DA who’s pro-criminal and not going to enforce the law, the cops aren’t going to go out and arrest somebody when they know the case is going to be no papered.
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