If you own a retail store or are managing one, shoplifting is a crime you have to deal with in a daily basis. Shoplifting and employee theft are two of the most damaging crimes for a retail store’s bottom line. If your store has policies regarding shoplifting and employee theft, such policies should be visible; they may serve as a deterrent to shoplifters entering your store, or employees thinking they can get away with stealing merchandise. For more news about shoplifting follow the links below.
Dover calls new shoplifting mugshot program a success
A controversial approach to reducing shoplifting by posting suspects’ arrest photos has been declared a success in Dover, despite complaints about violations of civil rights.
The four-month pilot project called the “Shoplifter Notification Program,” which started in August, produced a 19 percent drop in such crimes, city police said.
“That was huge,” said Cpl. Mark Hoffman, Dover Police Department’s public information officer, who suggested the project after seeing similar efforts on other forces’ webpages.
The drop in shoplifting was especially significant, he said, because the project period included the end-of-year holidays.
“That’s our busiest time of year for shoplifting,” Hoffman said, adding stores also are their busiest and youngsters with school vacations and time on their hands tend to raise the rate of merchandise thefts.
Davenport denies lawsuit claims of police brutality in shoplifting incident
The city of Davenport denies allegations of police brutality in its response to a lawsuit filed by a woman videotaped being hit by an officer after she was accused of shoplifting at Von Maur.
Brandie Redell, 36, of Davenport, filed the civil rights lawsuit in Davenport federal court last July, alleging she was beaten so severely she was hospitalized with a concussion and suffered vision loss.
The suit, filed against the city and Davenport police officers Scott Crow and Vincent Jacobsen, claims the police department makes a habit of “using excessive force against police suspects” and fails to properly discipline offending officers.
In a response filed last week, the city said the officers were justified in their use of force.
Man busted for shoplifting on motorized shopping-cart
SOUTH EUCLID, OH –It’s a miracle! A man on a motorized shopping-cart managed to stand up and run away when security guards tried to stop him from shoplifting at an Ohio Walmart.
An off-duty officer working security at the Walmart in South Euclid, Ohio noticed the man enter the store riding on the cart which is usually reserved for customers who need assistance walking.
A short time later, the man rolled out of the front entrance and set off the alarm. The officer began asking the man if he had any unpaid merchandise.
That’s when the man jumped out of the cart and high-tailed it out into the parking lot.
“We are so lucky to be police officers because every now and then we get the opportunity to
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