Los Angeles was the top city affected by organized retail crime in 2020, following by Chicago, Miami, New York and San Francisco
A recent viral shoplifting incident has highlighted trends in parts of the country where offenders at local drugstores rule the roost – in one case, even able to ride through the store on a bike and take a garbage bag full of stolen good as shoppers, and security watched on.
Viral video from earlier this week showed a brazen man riding a bike through a San Francisco Walgreens store hauling apparently stolen goods as he zipped his way past shoppers, including a security guard who was filming the incident on his cell phone, before he left out the door. The footage was captured by local KGO-TV reporter Lyanne Melendez and garnered thousands of likes and comments.
“#NoConsequences,” she wrote in the tweet, tagging San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
Hey, it beats the hell out of working for stuff. Just steal it instead, that way you aren’t tied to a job and have to get up early and go to work and all that BS. Stealing it is so much easier and if we do get caught, they just gonna turn you loose anyway and we be back out stealing more stuff. Let the dumb asses that work and pay taxes worry about it. Those stores are insured against theft so they ain;t out that much. So, go find something else to gripe about and let us keep looting and stealing and shoplifting our stuff and leave us alone.