California’s Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper has had it with Target.
With crime rampant in the Golden State, the behemoth has repeatedly contacted the police department, asking them to help with the swarm of thieves, only to handcuff the officers with a list of demands .
“I can’t make this stuff up,” the frustrated sheriff wrote to X on Thursday.
I can’t make this stuff up. Recently, we tried to help Target. Target contacted our detectives and property crime sergeant numerous times to assist with the shoplifters, most of whom were known transients. We coordinated with them and set up an operation with detectives and… pic.twitter.com/2TJCXApGMs
— Jim Cooper (@SheriffJCooper) November 9, 2023
“Recently, we’ve tried to help Target,” Cooper explained. “Target contacted our detectives and property crime sergeant numerous times to assist them with the shoplifters, most of whom were known bystanders. We coordinated with them and set up an operation with detectives and our North POP team.”
“At the briefing, we were told by their regional security chief that we could not contact suspects inside the store; we were unable to handcuff the suspects in the store; and if we arrested someone, they wanted us to take them outside…behind the store…in the rain,” he continued. “They told us they didn’t want to create a scene inside the store and have people film it and posted on social networks.”
“They didn’t want negative press,” Sheriff Cooper wrote. “Unbelievable”.
In accordance with Fox business“The National Retail Federation recently released a study investigating which major U.S. metropolitan areas are most affected by organized retail crime, based on surveys of nearly 200 retailers.”
“Four California cities landed on the top 10 list,” the company reports, “including Sacramento, which shared seventh place with Chicago.”
Even as Cooper deputies watched, the robbers loaded the bags.
“Our deputies saw a lady on camera carry her own shopping bags, walk down the body wash isle (sic) and grab a bunch of native body washes,” he wrote. “He then went to customer service and returned them!”
“Target chose to do nothing and just let it happen,” Cooper shared. “But somehow closing deodorant and raising the prices of everyday items we need to survive is their best response.”
“We don’t tell big business how to do their jobs,” he asserted, “they shouldn’t tell us how to do ours.”
As BizPac Review has reported, California’s progressive and soft-on-crime policies have wreaked havoc on the state’s retailers.
Over the summer, a video was released of three shoplifters: one, an elderly woman, and one, a morbidly obese woman who appeared to be suffering from massive localized lymphedema in one of her legs. viral.
The trio of thieves were seen unloading several shopping carts full of suspected merchandise stolen from a Sacramento Burlington into their getaway car: a red Dodge Charger parked in a handicapped parking spot.
Shoplifters slowly made their way across the parking lot of a Burlington store in Sacramento, California as they made off with carts full of stolen loot.
Obviously, these hungry women have to steal in order to eat!
More evidence of the moral decay of society! pic.twitter.com/AVkUtxbHgr— Ronald Kelly (@RonK3l) July 26, 2023
AX, people are as frustrated as Sheriff Cooper.
“Shit,” one user told Cooper. “Let them go out of business.”
“The positive PR that would come from shoplifting arrests filmed inside Target, and every other store for that matter, would be overwhelming,” another user predicted. “Citizens are tired of seeing their state go down the toilet.”
“It would actually be nice to see videos of customers filming someone getting arrested in the store,” replied a third. “I can’t remember the last time I saw it on social media. It’s usually someone walking out of the store with merchandise and no consequences.”
It was them; put them out of business.
— Chris L. (@CJPL30203) November 10, 2023
The positive PR that would come from the arrests of shoplifters filmed inside Target, and every other store, would be overwhelming. Citizens are tired of seeing their state go down the toilet.
— MamaSass (@j5_jazzy) November 10, 2023
It would actually be nice to see videos of customers filming someone being arrested in the store. I can’t remember the last time I saw this on social media. It’s usually someone who walks out of the store with merchandise and no consequences.
— Ryan Lundquist (@SacAppraiser) November 10, 2023
Others were just grateful the sheriff was talking about the problem.
Thanks for sharing this, Sheriff. Unfortunately, as you point out, everyone pays more for it. Ignoring the rule of law benefits no one: everyone loses.
— S Max Brown (@smaxbrown) November 10, 2023
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