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Lawmakers aren't letting the lack of useful data on the causes of retail theft stop them from pushing solutions to a problem they can't define.

A teenager who pleaded gulty in the stabbing death of a Los Angeles man has been sentenced to five years in a juvenile facility.

Public safety challenges are being improperly used to roll back criminal justice reforms. The next generation of leaders must show wisdom and backbone.

It is a scene many feel is becoming more common: targeted and elaborate retail theft impacting retailers large and small.

It is bad enough that California’s Proposition 47 already functionally legalized shoplifting in the Golden State by reducing the penalty for stealing less than $950 worth of merchandise to a misdemeanor.

“Shrink” is retail-speak for inventory lost to shoplifting. And shrinking, you could say, is expanding—quite dramatically.

“California’s policies not only fail businesses and individuals, they fail criminals who are themselves in need of help,” writes Asm. Juan Alanis.

Legislation aimed at making neighborhoods and schools safer has fueled California's addiction and homelessness problems, a sheriff said.

Authorities in New York City (NYC) arrested 327 people a combined 6,000 times for shoplifting in 2022, accounting for more than a third of arrests for the said crime. The New York Times reported [...]

In a move hoping to tackle the state’s rising crime rates, California Assemblyman Juan Alanis (R-Modesto) has proposed ...