New San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has taken meetings with executives from Walgreens and the operators of Westfield Mall, who are pushing her office to rein in retail crime, in recent weeks.
Walgreens has thousands of stores across the country, yet in San Francisco the massive Illinois-based pharmacy store chain has become a symbol of The City's social strife.
“She specifically met with Walgreens and Westfield about how their on-site security staff and store employees can coordinate with the District Attorney’s Office and San Francisco Police to address organized retail theft rings and retail theft broadly,” DA spokesperson Randy Quezada wrote in an email.
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It’s not just Walgreens decrying the rise in retail theft, noted Supervisor Ahsha Safai, who launched a commercial retail theft working group that includes the District Attorney and Police Chief Bill Scott. Major policy shift: Law approved to allow denser housing across S.F. S.F. Supervisors approved a law that upends The City’s decades-long housing policy
SFGate reported in February that Walgreens had closed at least 10 locations in San Francisco since the start of 2019. A company spokesperson told the news outlet that"retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average.”
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