Shoplifters get off all the time at big box stores, mostly due to staffing issues and security rules.
So the perps learn to play that. Store product ‘shrinkage’ is terrible these days. But, hey, it’s OK. We all pay for it through higher prices. And those perps will move on to worse activities, where someone WILL get hurt.
That’s right, those hardened child criminals must pay.
Shock em until they yelp for momma! That’ll teach em to raise muh prices
“And those perps will move on to worse activities, where someone WILL get hurt.”
Not true. Most of the kids I grew up with who shoplifted never commited another crime and had no intent for violence. It’s just something bad little kids do for a rush and they need discipline. Not some kilovolts in the back