Retailers say retail crime is reaching unprecedented levels and becoming increasingly violent. One mom testified to this in front of Congress.
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"He would … tell me, 'No,'" she said. "As a mom, my concerns began to grow at the lack of [protective equipment] he had been issued by Home Depot. All of my concerns and fears were realized by one phone call." On Tuesday, Mohs testified that "so many could have prevented [her son's] death," including the U.S. Labor Department, which she said could mandate that retailers provide protective equipment for asset protection workers, and local justice systems, which she said "failed" to rehabilitate Blake's alleged killer over her lengthy criminal career.
"Many [district attorneys] simply have too large a stack of crimes" to focus on cases where no one is physically harmed or personally victimized. Similarly, local police departments "only have a limited number of detectives, [so] if you've got multiple stores getting hit multiple times each day, they don't have the capacity to investigate all of them," he said.
He said that -- in terms of dollars stolen through organized retail crime -- Kansas ranks among the top 10 states in the country, and that's mainly because the I-70 corridor that runs from Kansas City west to Colorado "is a pipeline" for drugs, making it also a pipeline for organized retail crime. Jackson Lee, the Texas congresswoman, noted that the true scope of organized retail theft has been hard to ascertain because there is no "consistent and comprehensive" data on it. In fact, she said, there isn't even a "uniform definition" of what organized retail crime is, making it even harder to track and then tackle.
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