“These plots are known as “mass grab and dash” thefts and they generally involve large numbers of young people all entering a store at the same time, grabbing armfuls of merchandise and dashing back out to their vehicles and hitting the highway. Not only are robberies on the rise, but arrests and prosecutions are down. Who could possibly have predicted this?”
I think this is more race and age. These robberies would be over $1000.00.
Good point.
Something you're not likely to hear: "Yo yo, Ja'Neesha! Drop them earrings - you takin' us over $1,000, b**ch!"
A friend of ours saw this happen in Haiti decades ago, when someone snatched something from an open air shop and ran. He did not get more than a few yards when the Ton-Ton Macutes had him and beat the coon dog poop out of him.
Our friend was shocked, until the shop keeper told them it had to be this way. If not, no one could have a shop without being constantly robbed of everything.
So California is degenerating into a modern Haiti without the Ton-tons to stop theft.