At what point do the insurance companies get wise, and tell the retailers who have stores in these sorts of areas that they will no longer be covered for inventory "leakage"?
1. AFAIK, insurance companies do not cover shoplifting losses. OTOH, I know from a family member having worked at Walgreens that insurance companies require stores they insure to forbid store employees from interfering with shoplifters. Employee injuries are covered by insurance, and the insurance companies believe (and probably have supporting data) that interfering with shoplifters results in employee injuries.
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2. What did
Stuporvisor Safai advocate a year ago, when defunding police was fashionable among Prog city officials?
3. While police presence might decrease shoplifting some, that's just 1/3 of a loaf. The other 2/3 is the DA's office prosecuting shoplifters, and I doubt that's going to happen, at least until DA Chesa Boudin is thrown out of office by voters.