Posted on 08/11/2014 8:15:46 PM PDT by dennisw
In addition to paying fines and legal expenses in relation to the profiling allegations, the upscale retailer will hire an 'anti-profiling consultant' for two years, update its detention policy and improve training of security and sales personnel.
Barneys has agreed to pay $525,000 to settle allegations that the upscale retailer deliberately targeted minorities entering its Madison Ave. flagship store.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s investigators heard from customers and former employees that a pattern of racial profiling began last year when the high-end store tried to crack down on a dramatic spike in shoplifting and credit card fraud.
Complainants told Schneiderman’s civil rights division that the store’s security team — known as the “loss prevention unit” — made a habit of keeping watch over black and Hispanic shoppers in disproportionate numbers.
“This agreement will correct a number of wrongs,” said Schneiderman, “both by fixing past policies and by monitoring the actions of Barneys and its employees to make sure that past mistakes are not repeated.”
In a 27-page settlement document signed by both parties Friday, Schneiderman released a series of findings from a nine-month review based on interviews with nearly a dozen complainants in the so-called shop-and-frisk case, including shoppers and former employees.
They alleged that black and Hispanic customers were unfairly targeted when they entered the pricey store at 660 Madison Ave.
The store’s own data showed that from October 2012 through October 2013, black and Hispanic shoppers were detained “at rates far greater than their percentage of the store’s customer base.”
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theyre going to somehow manage to FIX the rate at which hoodlums shoplift??
“Complainants told Schneiderman’s civil rights division that the store’s security team — known as the “loss prevention unit” — made a habit of keeping watch over black and Hispanic shoppers in disproportionate numbers.”
Disproportionate based on what? The number of blacks and “hispanics” in jail for shoplifting?
Hmm. Wonder if they were shoplifting at rates far greater than their percentage of the store’s customer base?
Note...no mention whether their losses dropped....LOL
The Amish know that with Holder heading the DOJ they are apt to get away with any lawsuit targeting businesses or institutions in general. After all, Holder is picky when he decides what groups to prosecute.
Could there possibly be a REASON why certain shoppers needed to be “racially profiled?”
Shakedown, breakdown, takedown
Everybody wants into the crowded line
Breakdown, takedown, you’re busted
—Bob Seger
Watch their “shrinkage” rate skyrocket.
Reminds me of a suit a few years ago against a major drug store chain. They were sued for “profiling” and discrimination because they kept there jerry curl under lock and key and you needed a clerk to bring it up to the register for you. They did this because every month, they would lose at least half the product to shoplifting. Now I am going to go out on a limb here, but there is only a certain “community” that uses the jerry curl product.
there = “their”
Well, what about the percentage of those committing the crimes?
Sometimes racial profiling is based on logic and statistical evidence. It doesn't typically happen in a vacuum.
Who knew Civil Rights laws included the right for non-Whites to commit crimes with impunity ?
Same will happen with Barneys. Eventually either retail prices will skyrocket or the ‘going out of business’ sign will be in the window.
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Reminds me of a suit a few years ago against a major drug store chain. They were sued for “profiling” and discrimination because they kept there jerry curl under lock and key and you needed a clerk to bring it up to the register for you. They did this because every month, they would lose at least half the product to shoplifting. Now I am going to go out on a limb here, but there is only a certain “community” that uses the jerry curl product.”
Here is a solution for that situation: Don’t stock jerry curl (whatever that is) and all items attractive to a “certain community”. I would bet that would help in many more ways than the obvious.
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