At this point, wide-scale retail theft has become so common that it barely qualifies for a headline anymore. It’s been particularly bad on the West Coast, but many other areas have been plagued by it as well. It’s reached the stage where a number of stores have closed down, particularly pharmacies. Other outlets have taken to locking up all of their goods so that shoppers have to ask a clerk to bring them out for them. But one sociology professor from Brooklyn College thinks that everyone is just making too big of a deal out of this. Professor Alex Vitale told CNN this week that the focus on shoplifting and retail theft “is usually overblown” and shouldn’t be associated with “the collapse of social order.” (Fox News)Read More
Liberals Don’t Want You to Notice Retail Theft
