Here’s a practical solution for business owners: create a “photographic vigilance-facial recognition network”. Each of them would have a facial recognition camera at their entrance, then when they briefly detain a shoplifter, “just to recover the stolen item or items”, they take a quality photo of their face and put it into the network.
And from that moment, they are *banned* from all retailers in the network. As soon as they are ID’ed by the software, an employee compares their face with the photo, and if it is a match, they are told to leave the store.
If they refuse, the police are called and asked to issue them a *civil*, not criminal, trespassing citation. Like getting a traffic ticket. If you throw it away, you will get hauled before a judge for contempt of court and possibly get put in jail.
Umm, dude, like, you ROCK.
Great ideas!