Is LA actually fighting back against mass retail theft?

It’s no secret that mass retail theft has been on the rise in cities around the country for the past couple of years and that’s particularly true in California. Large gangs show up and brazenly steal everything that isn’t nailed to the floor, later selling the loot on the black market or right out on the streets. They do so without fear of repercussions because of California’s lax laws and soft-on-crime prosecutors. But is that changing in Los Angeles at long last? The city recently set up a Retail Theft Task Force, organized between the LA County Sheriff’s Department and the LAPD and they began investigating mass looting at the Nike Community Store in East Los Angeles. And this weekend, they arrested ten looters and returned thousands of dollars worth of stolen goods to the store. So is the tide beginning to shift, or was this a one-off event intended to generate some good headlines? (ABC News Los Angeles)Read More