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The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters
Los Angeles Times ^ | Oct. 11, 2025 3 AM P | Caroline Petrow-Cohen

Posted on 10/11/2025 1:09:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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Because arresting and prosecuting shoplifters who steal less than a designated amount is out of the question.
1 posted on 10/11/2025 1:09:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Uhh, yup, yup, yupper doodle...


2 posted on 10/11/2025 1:11:54 PM PDT by null and void (The only man in all of Scotland is a 14 year old girl...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let the staff be armed. The shoplifters are not afraid of anything else.


3 posted on 10/11/2025 1:16:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NEVER = EVER SHOULD HAVE HAD “SELF CHECKOUT”.

INVITATION TO STEAL.


4 posted on 10/11/2025 1:25:11 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isn’t the city government ordering the placing of unarmed clerks in positions to serve as a security force, this seems to be getting into a questionable area of putting a businesses employees in danger by city order to reduce crime and restrain criminals, which isn’t the role of these clerks.


5 posted on 10/11/2025 1:26:24 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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NEVER = EVER SHOULD HAVE HAD “SELF CHECKOUT”. INVITATION TO STEAL.

Our local Walmarts have overhead cameras that watch you checkout and the AI alerts the attendants when you put things in a bag without scanning it or when you obscure its view of what you are doing.

6 posted on 10/11/2025 1:30:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It seems to me to be about keeping union employees jobs instead of shoplifting.


7 posted on 10/11/2025 1:38:15 PM PDT by aomagrat (Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered.)
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To: ridesthemiles

After “self checkout” the store will be empty. Hard to believe there’s no money in retail, but there it is.


8 posted on 10/11/2025 1:39:07 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NEVER = EVER SHOULD HAVE HAD “SELF CHECKOUT”. INVITATION TO STEAL.
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Any society, including ours, works only so long as the people within that society abide by the basic rules. One of the most important is DON’T STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S STUFF!

Doing so is not just a crime, it is a SIN. (#8 of The Big 10.)


9 posted on 10/11/2025 1:49:51 PM PDT by oldplayer
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the government thinks they know better than the stores how to run the business of selling things.

If a store decided to lose a lot to theft, what business is it of the government to say no?


10 posted on 10/11/2025 2:00:47 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cut off the hand that steals!


11 posted on 10/11/2025 2:14:38 PM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Jailing people has a way of changing minds.


12 posted on 10/11/2025 2:20:23 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: null and void

Make the store membership only but allow anyone who wants to shop there the ability to get membership.

All you have to do is give a verifiable address, show sanctioned government ID, have your picture taken as well as a thumb print.

The picture and thumb print will be reproduced and printed on your Store ID.

There are many stores that are membership only that require ID cards.

Then if you feel like shoplifting feel free to do so. Then with the available information we will trespass you for life and the next time you come by we will have you arrested for trespassing.


13 posted on 10/11/2025 2:25:06 PM PDT by BFW
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is why we can’t have nice things. There’s always a tribe that will mess it up for the rest of us.


14 posted on 10/11/2025 2:26:13 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow. Good thing Scotus, some 70 years ago, banned posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Thank goodness for lawyers.


15 posted on 10/11/2025 2:44:35 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do they arrest thieves?


16 posted on 10/11/2025 3:17:11 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Old Yeller

Bingo!

An armed society is a polite society.

It helps encourage honesty.


17 posted on 10/11/2025 3:19:14 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One MAN (a real one!) with an aluminum baseball bat “legally” allowed to beat a thief into a coma would end 100% of all shoplifting. After he beat the hell out of one or two, and word got out, he would have nothing else to do but sit there and watch over everyone.


18 posted on 10/11/2025 3:36:37 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Ronald77

Like in the Middle East.


19 posted on 10/11/2025 5:23:54 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SaxxonWoods

True.


20 posted on 10/11/2025 5:25:10 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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