[txrangerette]

What you are describing is rampant CORRUPTION.

I’m talking about someone going into a store that is properly run and doing what this babe did, concealing merchandise on them and trying to leave without paying.

And what I described is what the average retailer who is trying to run a proper store tries to do in regard to shoplifting.

I’m not talking about a totally corrupted process such as you describe.

I’ve seen it, in the typical retail situation, in everything from a big name national retail outlet to every kind of small store and clothing shop you can imagine.

Detain them in the store by walking up and telling them, come with me to the office or back part of the store, you have store merchandise on you and are leaving without paying, the police are on their way to process your crime, don’t run away unless you want more charges than shoplifting levied upon you.

I don’t think we have any disagreement here.

Just talking about two very different kinds of situations. One, typical store typical shoplift. The other, rampant corruption of “the system”.

[calex59]

Detain them in the store by walking up and telling them, come with me to the office or back part of the store, you have store merchandise on you and are leaving without paying, the police are on their way to process your crime, don’t run away unless you want more charges than shoplifting levied upon you.

I was always under the impression that you can't arrest someone for shop lifting if they are still on store property(inside the building). In my area of CA they always wait until the suspect leaves the building then they stop them, not physically of course, but approach them and talk to them.