Update: New data shows Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt is prosecuting less than half of all misdemeanor theft cases sent to his office by police. So far in 2022, prosecutors in Multnomah County are prosecuting 46% of theft cases involving less than $1,000 in goods. That’s compared to an 84% prosecution rate in Clackamas County, and a 93% prosecution rate in Washington County for the same crimes, according to data provided by all three offices. Click here for the latest: www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/multnomah-county-misdemeanor-theft-shoplifting-prosecutions/283-f787c79b-a70c-4cb6-b48a-fb22cafbc15d

@gregwilson007

Жыл бұрын

This is due to the statewide shortage of public defenders. The body with the power to fix that shortage is the Oregon Legislature, and they move at the speed of smell. Call up your rep and tell them this is important and you won't vote for them if you don't see change. That's about all the leverage we have.

@travelnrtt

Жыл бұрын

Wasn’t this person elected? Blame the people who voted for him. You got what you asked for.

@st0n3p0ny

Жыл бұрын

@@gregwilson007 the same excuse they use to lie about our schools being garbage... Lack of funding. It's a lack of will and a lack of intent, and nothing else.

@iamgermane

Жыл бұрын

THESE ARE THE TYPES COMCAST HIRES FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE EACH TIME YOU CALL THEM. COMCAST THEMSELVES GET RIPPED OFF AS THEY ALLOW THEM TO TAKE 2 WEEKS VACATION IMMEDATELY AFTER TRAINING AND THEY NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN. IF THEY DO SOME WILL STEAL FROM CUSTOMERS OR MAKE PHONEY SALES. NEVER GIVE A COMCAST CUSTOMER SERVICE REP. YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!

@peterdallman4550

Жыл бұрын

In order to prosecute more you need more prosecutors! In order to have more prosecutors you need to fund the DA’s budget which hasn’t happened. The other side of this is that some of the biggest offenders are a part of organized crime. HD, Lowes, Kohls all the big box stores report that van loads of thieves arrive in their lots and they swarm the stores and grab and go.

You know there are serious issues with your country when prosecutors ignores crimes against property but will give you a $350 fine for going 5 over the speed limit.

@lunam7249

Жыл бұрын

$500 in california after the fees!

@longgone696

Жыл бұрын

They stopped enforcing traffic laws in Portland because of "racism"

@garybulwinkle82

Жыл бұрын

The problem is with these DAs that a lot of times are funded by liberal extremists like Soros! But the fool people keep voting for them! It really is because the general public is so dumbed down by our corrupt education system! The teachers make a lot of money but they are lousy at educating children how to think; it's a direct consequence of the unions and their promotion of mediocrity!! I myself, think women make horrible teachers!!!!

@normastoecklin628

Жыл бұрын

Progressive movement no regards for its people

@onlythewise1

Жыл бұрын

you mean going 15 over and the cop put 5 over

I feel like an idiot for standing in line to pay for things

@LeadingIndicator

Жыл бұрын

Maybe so, but the real reason you're an idiot is for leaving such a comment.

@vm4890

Жыл бұрын

I don’t. I have self respect and integrity.

@jfam7827

Жыл бұрын

Id tackle one of these bastards and hold them till the police got there if the store isn't willing to do anything about it somebody needs to grow some balls and start enforcing the law that the rest of us have to abide by...

@LeadingIndicator

Жыл бұрын

@@jfam7827 And you'd be arrested for assault ...

@tcb1012

Жыл бұрын

Well got make a living.... Tell you what if they start Locking up Rich people for insider trading and White collar crimes - Then that example will trickle down to set so society aright 👈😉

Imagine working at a retail store for a minimum wage and watching people stealing stuff worth hundreds of dollars, and walking away without any consequence....

@seaglass8940

Жыл бұрын

I do. And it’s demoralizing to watch and think about.

This is what happens when there is only reward and zero punishment.

@Wearefucked

8 ай бұрын

this is also what happens when inflation gets so bad people get fed up with expensive prices, if you ask me the system deserves this

@SnyderBearFarm

8 ай бұрын

@@Wearefucked oh no baby can't afford the newest Nikes and Ralph Lauren shirts, the horror.

@Western_ENT

7 ай бұрын

@@Wearefucked your CRIMINAL LOGICs make me wanna spit! 🤣 Who raised & taught you so? Wolves or Rats? 🤣

@arifkimy4700

4 ай бұрын

​@@Wearefuckeddefending your type huh?

@lessonman_3961

2 ай бұрын

This luxury item is too expensive, time to steal perfume and Nikes to buy drugs. ​@@Wearefucked

Thank you guys for having the balls to not blur out the thieves faces. Publicly shame every one of them

@fasnuf

Жыл бұрын

These people have no shame. come on.

@kennyc388

Жыл бұрын

You really think these sub human shitheels have any shame ?

@JohnJ469

Жыл бұрын

Why should they feel shame? Nobody is telling them it's wrong.

@DrumWild

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnJ469 Our society is full of desperate people who can't find gainful employment that pays a dignified adult living wage. This is a result of policy.

@JohnJ469

Жыл бұрын

@@DrumWild True. But it doesn't negate my point. Sadly most people haven't worked out that dependence on government only advantages the government. A man who depends on the government to put food on his children's table will not rebel.

Pretty much hit the nail on the head at the end. . . THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCES FOR CRIMINALS

@drybizcuit1914

Жыл бұрын

I hope you say the same thing for police that kill unarmed teens and get no jail time.

@ThisIsMyLife7399

Жыл бұрын

@@drybizcuit1914 Those are criminals too. . . So yes, I say the same thing about them. . . Just cause your a cop don't give you special ANYTHING when it come to shooting ANYBODY that is unarmed. . .

@seanfosdick

Жыл бұрын

@@ThisIsMyLife7399 That's just Stoopid. Lol

@LeadingIndicator

Жыл бұрын

YES THERE IS ... THEY GET ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE.

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

Inflation is out of control, prices of basic necessities are to expensive for people to afford, and what you care about is law and order and not your community. Fucking pathetic

in 25 years we will look back and say, "I remember the days when you could go in a store and just pick something off the shelf to pay for it". I think if this continues to happen the retailers will still have stores but they wont have anything on the shelves. You will go in there select items you want, pay for them, and then they will be shipped to your address from a local secure warehouse. Or you'll go pick them up and things will be in such a way that you cant steal.

@ladyd8339

Жыл бұрын

Sounds good to me! Somebody has to find a solution before everything closes down! We as Americans have always been innovative! We need to find a solution! Surely these woke companies still want to make money?

@thesnare100

Жыл бұрын

I've seen that happen before, on a smaller scale,. I remember buying some video games where they didn't have them on the actual shelf, instead they had a slip you took and showed to cashier, who would get it from the back room and that was back in the early 90's at Toys R Us. Then, there's the issue of stores closing anyway where theft is the catalyst but not the cause- the cause is online shopping

@jeremyjames6654

Жыл бұрын

... it won't be 25 yrs. Maybe in less than 25 months!

@lenatran2471

Жыл бұрын

It's called Amazon

@brianmclaughlin4419

Жыл бұрын

Why would the Warehouses be anymore secure than their Store?

"What can we do as a community to help stop this?" I dunno man, that's a hard one. If only there were laws against theft & the community demanded they be enforced...

@AUniqueHandleName444

10 ай бұрын

Don't you know that having laws against theft is racist? Besides that would take resources away from top surgery and hormones for at-risk teenagers

@theroxygirl731

9 ай бұрын

Stop buying stolen goods? If someone is selling a brand new designer item for a fraction of the price don't buy it. If they can't sell it, they won't steal it. The people buying stolen goods are criminals just like the criminals stealing from retailers, no difference.

@frankym69

6 ай бұрын

Most but not all. But that's insane that people voted for this. Oh and drugs were not the reason they made it so easy to steal. They just want to pay their reparations for the pains of slavery. I mean, next thing you know, the irish are going to start on the same thing and seek reparations for my ancestors enslavement. 😂

@mimiity9585

5 ай бұрын

Vote Republican. Most thieves are Democrats on welfare or into gangs and drugs.

I work in Africa Almost every reasonably sized shop has security and you’re receipts get checked when leaving . Shoplifters get instant justice via a club across the face .

@ahmedhemissi1677

Жыл бұрын

Africa is a continent with 54 countries and many different cultures and laws.

@pauls3204

Жыл бұрын

@@ahmedhemissi1677 and the 19 countries I have worked in all have the mentioned security systems

@pinkcichlid

Жыл бұрын

That’s why Kamala just went to Africa to lecture you guys about human rights /s

@ahmedhemissi1677

Жыл бұрын

@@pauls3204 its true that most stores have security but in most countries they are not allowed to hit people across the face they will either take back the stolen products and kick you out or in case you damaged something they will detain you until police comes (common sense)(at least that's the case in north African countries). i don't know which countries you worked in but linking something you experienced in some of them to the whole continent is ridiculous .

@waffenhirn

Жыл бұрын

​@@jmg8246 the africaans 😳

I was in Walgreens recently waiting in line for >10 minutes for a clerk that was ignoring me while she was screwing around with inventory. Meanwhile I watched a man grab what was probably $200 worth of merch and walk right out. The clerk asked him of he planned to pay and he walked right by her with out so much as batting an eye in her direction. Semi-sarcasticly I asked if I had to pay and in a really nasty tone she snapped back 'yes.' I have to say its a sad day when the criminals recieve better customer service than the paying customers.

@lcba97

Жыл бұрын

I seldom shop at Walgreens. It's just too unpleasant and upsetting to witness people stealing. Also I am paying more and in a way being punished for someone's criminal act.

@guru6831

Жыл бұрын

Clerk = Bad seller Thief = Bad human

@iamgermane

Жыл бұрын

THESE ARE THE TYPES COMCAST HIRES FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE EACH TIME YOU CALL THEM. COMCAST THEMSELVES GET RIPPED OFF AS THEY ALLOW THEM TO TAKE 2 WEEKS VACATION IMMEDATELY AFTER TRAINING AND THEY NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN. IF THEY DO SOME WILL STEAL FROM CUSTOMERS OR MAKE PHONEY SALES. NEVER GIVE A COMCAST CUSTOMER SERVICE REP. YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!

@Itsnotavailable

Жыл бұрын

i wish the clerk would!! i would be yelling at them back!! Fuck do you mean i have to pay but broke bum leaches walk out with shit

@kloyo

Жыл бұрын

@@iamgermane I think u need to leave this comment on the comcast comment section

Such lawlessness is absurd!😢

@jeffreybail353

6 ай бұрын

absurd is the world we live in

@henlohenlo689

2 ай бұрын

not all the world is absurd. soem places enforce laws and keeps standards up. oregon washington arent getting funding from b1dens executive orders that ordered funding for nonwhite regions. so places like oregon washington were left to rot. vital things like job creations and police and other services are barely existent the people get little help there. my dad and sister live there i live in california i have it better.

@user-zu5do6ri6r

26 күн бұрын

The federal government should not be funding States. If it it, that means it stole too much from the people to begin with.

Thank you for making this video! This is what NEEDS to happen nationwide to shine a light on what lazy prosecutors are doing.

@mimiity9585

5 ай бұрын

Democratic policies and woke idealism. We don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings by arresting them.

Crazy part is the residents are shocked when stores start closing in their area.

@coastiesaurus6810

Жыл бұрын

These idiots voted for this hell, let them suck dirt.

@jimmy5634

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think they’re that shocked.

@mrj8940

Жыл бұрын

​@@jimmy5634 some are

@elrealamericanhero

Жыл бұрын

can a customer legally use physical force to stop a shoplifter?

@michaeldowling5590

Жыл бұрын

@@elrealamericanhero in some states it is legal to steal up to 900. And not get caught. As a customer i would not stop anyone. Unless i had too. If the store does not stop them then why would a customer. If the thief gets hurt while trying to stop them, you may be on the hook for it. Crazy messed up times

I would rather call it looting, not shoplifting

Years ago at work an employee asked me if he could borrow $5 . Of course I said no . He said he will take a check . I said I do not think so . This is the same guy who told me he steals steaks at the grocery store . Go figure .

So why don't you ever directly talk about one of the main causes in Portland? Mike Schmidt, the DA who doesn't prosecute thieves.

@GardenerTobak

Жыл бұрын

That's one of the reasons I'm voting Republican this year straight ticket republican. Mike Schmidt even got me to change my voter registration a year or two ago over his lack of prosecuting crimes. No wonder our city has gone so downhill. The police arrest people, and they're just released because no one will prosecute them. Enough is enough! This has to stop.

@tcb1012

Жыл бұрын

Well got make a living.... Tell you what if they start Locking up Rich people for insider trading and white crimes - Then that example will trickle down to set so society aright 👈😉

@darthmom1019

Жыл бұрын

Good point.

@spencergrannell3548

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY 💯

@rhondaclark716

Жыл бұрын

@@darthmom1019 AFRICA REFUGIÉS IN MÉXICO. THEN OSCAR EL BLUE ALL ISLAMIC JIHADIST MEN FIGHTERS INVADING AMERICANS FOR WAR. ..ISIS TRAINING CAMPS IN MEXICO AMERICA SEX SLAVES IN MEXICO. ALL SPANISH NATIONS JOINED CHINA RUSSIA IRAN AFRICA AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN. THEY INVADED ALL WHITES KILLING WHITES

Was at Kohls, saw the same thing, man just walked out and 2 guards did nothing to him. Cashier said if we touch them we or the company will get sued. We are living in a shitty society when nothing is done, time to take actions.

@starguy2718

Жыл бұрын

Criminals have more rights than law-abiding citizens. Keep voting for Democrats!

@chrisgattman4975

Жыл бұрын

So what law says you can't do whatever is necessary to stop them?

@zyzzer

Жыл бұрын

Why pay security guards if they're not going to work?

@CandiceMMartinez

Жыл бұрын

I don't understand how they get sued. Who created the laws that allow people to get away with theft in Oregon? I live in a blue state too but workers here can tackle you in the parking lot for stealing.

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

So you're going to risk your life to protect someone else's profits?

Your really reporting the important crimes .GOOD FOR YOU BUDDY

I understand desperate people stealing food, I used to buy food for people like that all the time. But people stealing things to resell are greedy and they need to be prosecuted.

I work in retail (not in Portland) it is awful to have to watch people steal. We try to "customer service" them to deter, which sometimes works. There are scary "professional" thieves who you better just stay away from. People who give stupid stories, are on drugs etc. PTSD is a real problem for employees, it gets under your skin till you can't stand it anymore, and just walk away. Some people excuse it as "they need it" nobody needs Nikes, fragrance, Jewelry. I'm not going to get hurt for this, and if I tried, I would be fired. The store looks in my bag when I leave though...

@DM-lc2cf

Жыл бұрын

@The Cycle No, my perception of society was widened by these more recent events. There was always "shoplifting" in the store, but never at the pace it has become it the last few years. Never had felt any danger (robbery at the cash register has always been a possibility) from those that stole items. Most customers have no idea of the scope. We have to tell them we don't have the item or size because it most likely stolen. The police will come, but the corporation refuses to let us call. The manager has to call the corp LP and they decide if they call the police. Occasionlly the regional LP comes to the store, and has caught a few, or the police are going through the parking lot and catch some runners.

@olivergoncalves1217

Жыл бұрын

DM, I'm in Toronto and have seen this sort of thing a number of times. One guy just walked out of grocery store with meats hidden away in his jacket, another at walmart walked out with a cart full of groceries, and yet another at walmart, waiting in line to use self-checkout, just walked out with all his items in tow.

@EmperorStarscream

Жыл бұрын

Where do you work? I'd like to come help with this epidemic

@Iquey

Жыл бұрын

Same. Sounds like any department store.

@andrewconcepcion9067

Жыл бұрын

I’ve experienced this in Pioneer Place working at my company‘s pop-up shop. I remember some individuals who came in and we’re talking to me and after listening to their story I could tell there wasn’t really good in any of it. I talk to them for about one hour maybe two and after a while I was sitting there knowing that they wanted to take stuff from my store but they wouldn’t just say it out loud. At one point I was kind of nervous because it was just me and I was going to tell them look if you’re going to steal something just do it now and just take it so that way I can end my day.

This is why Walmart is closing all of their Portland stores.

@captainkeyboard1007

Жыл бұрын

The Portland residents had better have computers, even smartphones, or tablet computers, because they will really need them to guide them into many online shopping experiences.

@theinsightfulvisionary0197

Жыл бұрын

Right on!!!

@csnide6702

Жыл бұрын

because WALMART is TOO LAZY AND CHEAP to hire LP and actually CATCH THE CRIMINALS.

@blob5907

Жыл бұрын

no its because portland is racist

@woke2truth452

Жыл бұрын

Chicago too

Great reporting. Thank you.

Then, when a Walmart closes down because of this, the same people say, "Walmart doesn't care about our people, our community. There's nowhere to buy fresh food here."

I worked in retail for 8 years at a big box store 30 years ago. Back then, the security people would go after thieves and if attacked, fought back. Security got their teeth pulled when a runaway thief was hit by a car and successfully sued the business. Judge should have told the thief that injuries are part of a thief's job, so a thief has no right to sue. This is the end result of allowing people to do whatever they want and not holding them accountable.

@azeez8399

Жыл бұрын

The end result of liberalism, which feeds people's addictions.

@Enki1013

Жыл бұрын

Insurance claims and disability benefits are automatically denied if they occurred as a result of committing a crime. WTF are they allowed to sue when they get their sorry gluteus hurt while committing a crime?

@adrone123

Жыл бұрын

Sympathy for the devil is wrong and evil. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. Take your pick on which saying describes the situation!

@elykalontar3847

Жыл бұрын

This sounds like the onset of communism. I’m also tired of people saying “no, you’re just too conservative” I’m actually not - but I know communism especially since it STILL exists in CHINA and RUSSIA. Now listen, allowing people to steal is not just to allow the crime to happen, it’s to discourage the companies and stores to run a business and make a profit a la capitalism. It’s meant to start a new wave of allowing criminal activity to take away business from stores and in turn, they close. People need to rise up and protest this BLATANT attack on their lives. Waiting in line for a food ration of bread and water is not ideal and just because it’s the US of A doesn’t mean it’s not coming.

@marksherrill9337

Жыл бұрын

Thief sued the store. Amazing. Judge needs to lose his job.

Saw a dude literally beat down a couple thieves with a baseball bat he picked up in said store. Once they got to the parking lot came the beat down. They both left their stolen loot behind and drove off. Need more people like that

@chrisschaeffer9661

Жыл бұрын

So he beat some poor people for ripping off the rich? Boy aren't you hero

@dottmcse

Жыл бұрын

Needs to be more of that happening.

@dottmcse

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisschaeffer9661 They may have just been low life slime not Robin Hood. And not all business' are RICH. All us honest people pay the higher prices because of theft.

@notcrazy6288

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisschaeffer9661 Wow you're a moron. 'The Rich' don't pay for losses to these stores. The stores up the prices on the consumers who use the store, or they shut down when they can't turn a profit and create a food/service desert. This isn't 'free money'.

@Grillinnap

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisschaeffer9661 we got ourselves a career shoplifter here

Only way it can be addressed is through lawmakers. They are the only ones that can change the laws enough to make this type of crime the last thing someone wants to do. Radical changes like reestablishing state work camps. Convicted shop lifters don't just go to prison, but go to hard labor work camps for a minimun of a year. Where they work outside in the hottest sun and coldest cold. Where they watch zero TV. Listen to zero radio and have very little access to personal time. An experience so grueling, once a few are convicted, others will avoid it like the plague.

Notice a similarity with all these criminals? Why isnt the news reporting on that?

STOP ALLOWING THIEVES TO SUE! Watch what will happen if these thieves realize that store employees can go after them, with NO LEGAL RECOURSE.

@kookamunga2458

Жыл бұрын

I agree Woke has gone too far when shoplifters are portrayed as victims.

@highrolla142

Жыл бұрын

But you can steal as much land and resources as you want and that's ok celebrate the founding fathers master thieves America was founded by thieves now you hate thieves foh

@beavis4763

Жыл бұрын

The thieves know the employee will be fired if they challenge or chase them so the employees just let them walk away with whatever they want.

@rsimmons1980

Жыл бұрын

@@kookamunga2458 Stop using buzzwords. Woke has no meaning.

@bushwacka5187

Жыл бұрын

@@rsimmons1980 It has too many meanings for too many different people you mean...

I never understood why these employees put there life’s at risk for a company that will replace them in a heartbeat just call the police and let them go and let the police deal with it

@richatlarge462

9 ай бұрын

They aren't doing it for the company, they're doing it to uphold the concept of a functioning society.

@danielwhite3887

8 ай бұрын

@@richatlarge462 does that mean not making it home ?

@richatlarge462

8 ай бұрын

@@danielwhite3887 In a better society it would mean the criminals not making it home. But for now, employees who take a risk might be hard to understand, given the low reward for the risk.

@brucenadeau2172

Ай бұрын

because the thief is not just stealing from the company he is taking the employee money

In Canada and the US from 1957 to 1996 there was a retail chain called Consumers Distributing. A customer would go into a large open area at the store front (no products on display) and would open up a catalogue. Customer would then write down the catalogue number for the item(s) they wanted, pay for it, and wait while it was brought out from the back warehouse. That’s pretty much the way we are headed again, just to buy a freaking jug of detergent. Of course with technology improved since then it will look a little different, but the concept will be the same.

I remember in the early 80s seeing a kid running through the mall and security guards tackled him and took stolen clothing items from him, then escorted him to the office and the police showed up. That was back when the law had teeth, criminals actually got punished back then

@VictorSanchez-ji3wu

Жыл бұрын

Now police service and protect criminals💩💩💩

@diy5729

Жыл бұрын

What changed? More blaqs...... Now we cannot prosecute or do nothing because of "race" and bullshit ........ Look at all these videos, all of them are blaqs...... This has nothing to do with race equality but hatred and greed for the country.Its not even a country and does not feel like one.

@busybody1474

Жыл бұрын

@@diy5729 shut the hell up you racist piece of crap, there is plenty of white trash out there that make black people look good you ignorant turd

@wheresmyrooptoff4056

Жыл бұрын

"criminals" haha

@maxpro751

Жыл бұрын

They tackled a kid for stealing clothes? Those security guards should be in prison.

I wish there was a law. If the public jumps in to stop a crime. They are given immunity from any sort of prosecution. Within reason. For doing a community service.

@thaimassage23

Жыл бұрын

If you hurt of kill the suspect you'll be in jail also.

@thomasmacon6661

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you should write a measure on that , after all if we have time to discuss attendance records of legislators we certainly can have that vote...

@theomarcus

Жыл бұрын

@@thaimassage23 Not true

@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki

Жыл бұрын

The "Good Samaritan" law DOES exist in cases of First Aid when you come to the rescue. In that law, you're protected for any suit or consequences of a wrong outcome, because you TRIED in the moment. OF COURSE IT can be extended, and probably fairly easily. It' already enshrined in medical law.

@T.S.000

Жыл бұрын

I would wait until after the thieves loaded the merchandise into the car, then carjack the thieves, take their car along with the merchandise in it.

Retail establishments will write you up if you’re five dollars short or over on your till, but they won’t pursue people who walk in and steal in mass. really puts things into perspective doesn’t it.

@Justagirlnamedshawn

Жыл бұрын

Right??? F**ked up world we are in.

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, because the loss from shoplifting is incredibly small, and who cares about shoplifting when as a buisness owner you can just steal 10 times more from your employees

@Dream244

Жыл бұрын

Excellent point 😊

@gblargg

Жыл бұрын

They would stop shoplifters if the law didn't protect the shoplifters. It's not worth the serious legal costs.

@mrsleep0000

Жыл бұрын

@@skyisreallyhigh3333 Found the lunatic that votes for this crap

As a retail employee for 10 year's. I've worked at 5 separate companies, not a single one has paid me enough to give a shit tbh lol Theft isn't even really a crime in most places, like if you steal less than 500 bucks worth of stuff, your really not expecting anything even for multiple offenses. The punishment might as well not exist. That's not even counting the fact that enforcing a ban on someone in a store, is hard and requires a call to the police every time you want to kick them out. It's a massive hassel and too many people steal to really keep track of. That's without even mentioning, some people "Pretend" to steal on purpose so that they can accuse the worker's of Profiling, Defamation and False Accusation. If you cannot give, definitive proof that they stole by Camera, and they don't walk all the way out the store, you can't call the police or accuse them, it's not worth the risk. And here's the thing, they won't sue the company, the sue the poorly paid employee instead. That's why if I see theft, I won't say shit unless it's unreasonably obvious. Like carrying a huge amount of merchandise out the store in their arms obvious, it's not worth the risk or pay on my end.

If they worked this hard at stealing they have a decent job instead.

Laws protect the shoplifters nowadays I remember how it was 30 yrs ago when you could apprehend and hold for the police and the police actually came and arrested them

@dankelly5150

Жыл бұрын

Want this to continue forever then just keep voting Democrat Oregon !! 🙄

@thomaszitting2672

Жыл бұрын

@@dankelly5150 Republicans do nothing, only complain tell what have they done ?

@mariemeneses2117

Жыл бұрын

As it should be. They got AI. They got cameras. Just give people a ticket like every other insane driver who almost kills pedestrians callously.

@johnjoseph7382

Жыл бұрын

They don't protect the thieves, you just tell yourself that.

@MS-ns2pj

Жыл бұрын

Experience has taught that the old ways often lead to more violence. Many retailers will arrest and hold, but they will not chase or they will not chase beyond a certain distance. For example, Target will not chase beyond the red balls. Best Buy will not chase beyond the sidewalk, which is why they have such deep sidewalks and why they use a vestibule. It takes longer to get away.

Yet when I’m paying for my items, there’s always an employee that stares at you to make sure you don’t steal.

@helencornioli1493

Жыл бұрын

The old saying it only takes one to ruin it for the rest of us

@DJB635

Жыл бұрын

These crooks don't care about anybody staring at them.

@guru6831

Жыл бұрын

Employees should ensure no theft occurs but must also respect customers. Integrity - it goes both ways.

@iamgermane

Жыл бұрын

THESE ARE THE TYPES COMCAST HIRES FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE EACH TIME YOU CALL THEM. COMCAST THEMSELVES GET RIPPED OFF AS THEY ALLOW THEM TO TAKE 2 WEEKS VACATION IMMEDATELY AFTER TRAINING AND THEY NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN. IF THEY DO SOME WILL STEAL FROM CUSTOMERS OR MAKE PHONEY SALES. NEVER GIVE A COMCAST CUSTOMER SERVICE REP. YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!

@Itsnotavailable

Жыл бұрын

Stare at them back and tell them to fucking look for actual thief

It’s rampant in the US. Lack of prosecutions and legalizing of drugs will do this.

I don't understand why they're not apprehending these fools. I worked for a K-Mart as a LPO when I had left the Marines and was attending college in the 80s and we would apprehend and detain until cops arrived to haul their butts to jail. Had one guy try to pull a blade on me, that he had stolen, and I just beat his ass. No problems with lawsuits and shit. Nowadays I guess they think it's less trouble and cost to just let them get away with it, but clearly it's not with so many big chains having to close locations because they've let it get so out of control.

@mimiity9585

5 ай бұрын

Democratic policies, Democratics stealing. Free free free! Live off the government. Remain ignorant and dependent. Divide all by race and gender to fit a tribal victim mentality! That’s how top Democrats run this country.

I was in Beaverton last summer at Home Depot. There was about 5 Beaverton Police surrounding a Blond man. I said to an employee,” Hey, what is up? What did that guy do?” Turns out…he was a SHOPLIFTER. The DA in Beaverton PROSECUTES….Mike Schmidt, Portland DA….doesn’t do ANYTHING!

@cspdx11

Жыл бұрын

that is awesome to hear

@The_Savage_Wombat

Жыл бұрын

They probably felt safe arresting a man with that description because no one will scream the "R" word at them.

@samonmich6595

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Savage_Wombat I like the way they made sure we knew he was white!

@samonmich6595

Жыл бұрын

Automatic 10 years in prison for thieves!

@regulator7931

Жыл бұрын

Neither does Gasgone in LA

If you go to the store and laundry detergent is locked up with a cable, you know you're living in a really nice area, lol!

@Iceaxe0410

Жыл бұрын

It's more common now for it to be locked up in cages or glass cases in my area. The cable thing doesn't do much as it only alerts when something is leaving the store without being paid for. Doesn't work if no one stops them which is pretty common. A few stores just leave the shelves empty and if you need detergent, have to ask someone for it. They keep them locked up in the backroom.

@J23486

Жыл бұрын

​@@Iceaxe0410 Interesting, im in a smaller town, the only thing behind a glass case is baby formula. I am so glad I dont live in a big city where there are theives all over.

@gorillatrader2339

Жыл бұрын

They're going into nice areas now.

@ringring8938

Жыл бұрын

Is alright, is the shops right to lock up and make it inconveniences to us.

@sungleong

Жыл бұрын

@@Iceaxe0410 and then what? they could pretend to buy and grab the detergent from the employees

They know employees can't stop them. and the cost of the items stolen are offset by higher prices, so those who pay are paying for the items stolen.

Greedy shareholders are what drives up prices! Theyre making billions, literal billions and making us blame each other for price increases.

I worked at a retail store in Portland not too long ago. My job was to stand at the door and make it so people think twice about stealing. But we were not allowed to grab the cart or actually touch the person. Not even allowed to accuse them of stealing. Every one is so damn scared of offending someone or getting sued that they wont even let LP do their damn job.

@marks-0-0

Жыл бұрын

You don't have to worry about offending your customers anymore just close the store down, problem solved.

@chriskeeney4278

Жыл бұрын

This really needs to change. If police can kill an innocent person and get away with it cause they "went to the wrong house", LP should have a reasonable immunity to stopping ACTUAL criminals. No consequences doesn't lead to improved behavior. Ask any modern teacher.

@shoman0

Жыл бұрын

thats not going to scare a thief

@bowno5726

Жыл бұрын

@@shoman0 Exactly.

@niagarajoe4402

Жыл бұрын

@@shoman0 exactly…..just pay people under the table to stand outside…..and pop these crackheads the second the walk out the door……drag them back to the dumpster

This is the perfect example of that whole “Reimagine public safety.”

@lisacarden1309

Жыл бұрын

Exactly... and illegitimate elections....Oregon hasn't had legitimate elections in decades due to Decades of mail in voting. soros money and illegals being able to vote! Hence a commie cesspool.....

@USAbLaSt

Жыл бұрын

Seriously, they should post counselors at the exits to give these underserved, institutionally oppressed, victims of society the help they need!! LMAO!!

@adrone123

Жыл бұрын

Quick, send in the social workers, not the police officers! The criminals should definitely listen then!

Need a bigger deterrent. One that is fast, effective, and cheap. Chop off the right hand. Works well in Malaysia.

That’s why many restaurants seal the delivery with their tape to ensure it’s not tempered.

Walmart closed a few stores in Portland a while back, and they just announced that they're closing 4 more in Chicago by this Sunday. People are up in arms about it. Nobody seemed to be upset about all the theft though. That's a shame. You get what you vote for.

@colinlarson9656

Жыл бұрын

And on top of that the same communities who are stealing everything they can are screaming racism for the stores closing. How not being able to turn a profit is racist I will never know.

@dachochiyo3992

Жыл бұрын

Community issues, in my country noone dare to do this. What's happening in America?

@colinlarson9656

Жыл бұрын

@@dachochiyo3992 delusional people thought they could defund the police and vote idiots into office who decide to give crime a slap on the wrist because those people they protect make the common voter feel guilty about. It is pathetic.

@scottodonnell7121

Жыл бұрын

@Claire DePaulo soon, you won't be able to enter a store to shop. You'll have to order online and have to pick it up or have it delivered. With the extra charge, of course.

@Peter43John

Жыл бұрын

@Claire DePaulo correction: soon people will have to go out of all the liberal Democratic states to LIVE.

As someone who worked retail for about 7 years workers are not responsible for these people. We are under paid and sometimes these people have weapons on them. The irony is that the store's security spend more time monitoring the employees than the customers. If the store even has security.

This happens in my daughter’s nice neighborhood as well. People walk into the grocery store and steal certain items . Then walk out.

I can’t even believe the store allowed this to happen

@brucenadeau2172

Ай бұрын

the store has no say even if the store arrested the thieves the da just gives them a ticket, then lets out on the street

They’re not even prosecuting domestic violence, I’d rather that kind of thing being addressed first

@ricklannis6244

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather they prosecute both!

@stangreen4134

Жыл бұрын

A lot of these thefts fuel drug addiction, drug addiction fuels domestic violence. It’s all connected.

@lampb0obs

Жыл бұрын

@@stangreen4134 I call total absolute bullshit on that

@lampb0obs

Жыл бұрын

If you want to talk about things being connected, I would say the lack of a social safety net and services fuels things much more

@wonlop469

Жыл бұрын

People can lie about anything on YT.

I was in loss prevention in Portland from 2014 to 2019, I could count on one hand how many times police came when I stopped someone. Glad I got out of it.

@kapa4929

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the police have their own retail theft ring. A police chief in Hartford, Michigan got caught stealing drugs from the collection box and selling it. So its definitely possible.

@daniellethomas3745

Жыл бұрын

It’s not just Portland. My store was directly across the street from the police station and they never showed up to help. This was in Indiana. It has to start with the store policy. Thieves know they can walk out of a store without a second glance.

@Iwishuwould-uq5gl

Жыл бұрын

Half of the time it was their people, their thieves stealing never heard of organized crime. If you could talk to a officers wife you would know.

@AlmostReady504

Жыл бұрын

3, 174 reported cases of shoplifting. What is the breakdown of colored and white

@ozzyhouston2535

Жыл бұрын

@@AlmostReady504 White folk do their looting on Wall Street :)

Essentially, prosecutors and legislators are allowing a redistribution of wealth that was not approved by the public. That is taxation without representation, in spirit if not in letter.

Someday stores are going to make it so you hand a list to a clerk and they get all the items you need. Everything will be locked in the back and you will wait for a shopping clerk to get all your stuff.

These companies need to pull out of Portland and maybe even all of Oregon and California. This will hit local government in the pocketbook. You better believe that is when change will come.

@enlightenfitness

Жыл бұрын

Lol no it won’t. They are too far mentally gone

@CRneu

Жыл бұрын

this isn't unique to oregon or portland.

@thismaineliving

Жыл бұрын

Ya it won't hurt them at all. In many cases they were given Tax break incentive to open here in the first place like the Nike store. This also is an issues happing from East right across to the West coast, In rural mill towns in Maine at the Walmart for Portland OR at Nike. Police need to make this kind of crime more of a priority by stationing an Officer in theses stripe mails instead of wasting time on dumb sh*t like giving parking tickets or other mundane infractions. As this report pointed out this isn't just someone nicking a jacket the like, its massive theft the is creating an sustained drug uses and drug dealing along with a litany of other crime as well as allllllll and everything that goes along with that world.

@djomegaminus

Жыл бұрын

This comment aged well.

@lisacarden1309

Жыл бұрын

Amen

You deserve the community you vote for.

@nonmihiseddeo4181

Жыл бұрын

Good point. So . . . what's the endgame? Who ultimately benefits from crime without consequences?

@cemsengul16

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they have no right to complain when they constantly vote Democrat and get the same outcome.

@bigfranchise

Жыл бұрын

@@nonmihiseddeo4181that’s the golden question. Someone is benefiting from a culture of crime without consequence. Someone is profiting from such behavior.

@ShannonsBibleStudy

Жыл бұрын

@@nonmihiseddeo4181 People that own FB Marketplace, Craigslist, E Bay, etc.

@newtrollaccount384

Жыл бұрын

This is tied to drug trafficking which already has a stiff legal penalty. Everything doesn't come down to politics.

good job reporting

We are living in the dumb days …. People are acting the total opposite and think this way of life is normal. What are we teaching our children?

@junioradult6219

9 ай бұрын

Most of them are junkies looking for money for a fix

@yabbadabbadoo637

9 ай бұрын

Most of them are degenerates that don’t want to work.

How to sink your society into a hell hole: 1. Tell people they are victims, and always will be 2. Tell people they are entitled 3. Make excuses for them when they commit crime, including violent crime 4. Make excuses for them when they refuse to work 5. Remind them they are victims 6. Encourage violent protests 7. Yell at anyone who notices (call them Racist, Bigot or Nazi) 8. Unleash the animals And now you have Portland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Baltimore etc. Congratulations!

@bradspringer2372

Жыл бұрын

Brilliantly outlined.

@lisacarden1309

Жыл бұрын

Add to that decades of illegitimate elections due to decades of mail-in voting!

@sangbae8099

Жыл бұрын

SMASH AND GRAB THEFT MENTALITY OF RECENT TIMES!! AND ALL THE LAWLESSNESS BEHAVIORS OF SOME PEOPLE!! WHAT KIND OF UNCIVILIZED PEOPLE HAVE SOME IN THIS COUNTRY BECOME !! IT'S EMBARRASSING !!! I BLAME THE AMERICAN LIBERAL MEDIA AND THE LEFT POLITICAL PARTY FOR SOME THIS IN MY OPINION, IT'S GOING TO RUIN THIS COUNTRY, THE FUTURE DOES LOOK GOOD IF WE LET THIS CONTINUE !! 😡 RANT OVER.

@CivilShepherd

Жыл бұрын

RIP George Floyd

@InevitableTruthTeller

Жыл бұрын

@@CivilShepherd Right?

I have a good story while I was busting my ass working at Lowe's as a cashier, I saw a guy rolling a cart with 2 dyson vacuum cleaners towards the exit, I kinda got in front of him and asked to see a receipt, he handed me a receipt and then kinda went around me during the 3 to 5 seconds that I started to look at the receipt. It was a Mcdonalds receipt for a egg mcmuffin. I was frkn mad all day, dude just made more money than I would in 2 weeks working that job.

@tyhendrickson2583

Жыл бұрын

Play the system that’s playing you. 🐑

@josiahwoodland7345

Жыл бұрын

@@tyhendrickson2583 dumbass

@Chris-gh6ux

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@chrissz1762

Жыл бұрын

Oh my god that is a messed up s***.

@sammyjimsmith6100

Жыл бұрын

Crime pays.

In some countries and communities they don't have this problem because the thieves know they will be dealt with by the entire public. Lack of punishment equals incentive for bad behavior. This has been true for all of time.

@olivergoncalves1217

Жыл бұрын

its economic, mostly, the below that we have addicts and petty thieves, then of course, the opportunist.

@charleshoang566

Жыл бұрын

In other countries these thieves might be dead.

@fredact

Жыл бұрын

@@olivergoncalves1217 No it's not economic. It's the result of left-wing policies. Cities run by conservatives do not have these problems even with the same level of poverty.

@olivergoncalves1217

Жыл бұрын

@@charleshoang566 Other countries might have better support systems, hence the need to steal becomes negated by that. Here in Canada we have a real homeless problem, where even people with money and married couples, are having a hard time paying bills. Without all the other variables, the shortage of living space is enough to cause havoc throughout a community.

@nogreatreset8506

Жыл бұрын

@@olivergoncalves1217 Shortage of living space? Canada has lots of room. Oliver your just in a big city.

Watching this from Australia - this is just totally crazy, and unfortunately these behaviours are increasingly common across the globe. It feels like we are, globally, moving inexorably closer to something big. No, not the second coming of Christ or anything. But a massive social change that will move us from looking at apocalypse as fiction, to accepting we are already there and it’s getting way way worse.

@AUniqueHandleName444

10 ай бұрын

We just need to go back to actually punishing criminals and stop pretending everybody everywhere is equal.

@okldr

9 ай бұрын

No, this doesn’t happen globally, it only exists in some countries that don’t know what justice is. I don’t understand why people allow such countries to exist. Thieves, even in ancient times thousands of years ago, were not so rampant

@okldr

9 ай бұрын

Thieves, Those are just some thieves. Even in African countries with the most frequent coups, robbery of public places on such a scale is an unthinkable act. Why didn't your people stop them? They were just some thieves. Why didn't you have any courage to stop it?

@95ellington

9 ай бұрын

Not accross the world, it tends to happen in Western Countries, here in the East this never happens as crime is punished harshly.

It is hard to fathom these things considering that in my town nothing ever happens. People leave their carports, car windows, and bikes unlocked without consequences. Sometimes, I don't even lock my car.

@sungleong

Жыл бұрын

your town is democrats or conservative?

@CaptainSensibleIII

Жыл бұрын

@@sungleong It 's a podunk shithole in the middle of buttfuck nowhere.

@AUniqueHandleName444

10 ай бұрын

@@sungleong It's either conservative, or a very sheltered, rich small town in an all-white area.

A friend of mine worked at a PetSmart for several years. He once saw a well-known crackhead try to shoplift a giant pre-built cat tree, but he ended up breaking it on one of the sliding doors on his way out. He then proceeded to leave it in the parking lot and took off on his BIKE. Yes, this man was planning on somehow carrying a massive cat tree on his back while riding a bike. Absolutely mental.

@coastiesaurus6810

Жыл бұрын

You just described a Demtard.

@snotnosewilly99

Жыл бұрын

If the store tries to stop a shoplifter.....a gooey, slimmy, money grubbing liability lawyer sues the store for 1 million dollars claiming injuries.

@Dr_KW

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@MM-pj4bl

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mohawkman9

Жыл бұрын

What if he just saw the bike, and on a whim, decided to steal that because he lost his cat tree.

After years of telling us there was no problem, local media would like to enlighten us.

@DP12321

Жыл бұрын

Local media going to bat for massive corporations and their retail losses, but they lack the same vigor for when the average citizen is targeted.

@myobmyob2215

Жыл бұрын

Reporter has time to interview, watch crime and opine ThisiswhatIIIIthink but did he try to trip them block them report them push 10 carts out in front of them thrown marbles out in front of them No. NO just wants to yak on camera about the obvious

@nathanlewis5682

Жыл бұрын

Same media, same dipsh*ts telling us "Rioting? No rioting here. Just some mostly peaceful protesting? Providing cover and protection for these thugs.

Thanks for the info so I know besides Detroit, San Francisco and I will add Portland to my unsafe state lists.

I’m in the retail store. I’ve been told that if someone steals let them steal it and then down for life also, get the police involved.

It’s gonna end up in the future where everyone has to scan their ID just to enter stores

@EchoOfGecko

Жыл бұрын

I'm genuinely curious how Bi Mart's shrinkage rates compare to the industry average in Portland.

@gojobuddy

Жыл бұрын

Yes and all consumers are paying for this.

@marcusfieldfield4069

Жыл бұрын

You are right that's exactly what's going to occur

@thaimassage23

Жыл бұрын

I dont mind doing that.

@elizabethgreer9080

Жыл бұрын

@@thaimassage23 you WILL mind when your ID is rejected, for whatever reason. Think before you leap.

If you let these people get away with this it only emboldens them to do worse crimes

@minecraftercreeper1

Жыл бұрын

Who is gonna hold the CEOs accountable? Huh? People barely make enough to live, inflation is sky high and everything has increased except wages, the CEOs are the multi-billion dollar corporations DESERVE to have these things happening to them.

@alohatraveler

Жыл бұрын

Gee Einstein, you really are going all out with that claim.

@minecraftercreeper1

Жыл бұрын

@@alohatraveler Interesting that you didn't disagree.

The definition of burglary is…knowingly enter a premises with the intentions to commit a crime therein. Start giving these folk’s minimum mandatory sentences, based on their records….and watch this stupidity…..end. No I am not a brain surgeon……it’s called common sense.

U know its gone way to far when they have to lock up laundry detergent.

Crime is going unpunished and it's no accident.

@abrasionequation4632

Жыл бұрын

The New World Order

@charlesritter6640

Жыл бұрын

@@abrasionequation4632 Exactly

@TheErik249

Жыл бұрын

Strange. I've never commented on this youtube account but, there are several others commenting on here that have blocked me. KZread auto-response bots. Its just as bad as twitter. Elon Musk should buy youtube as well.

@mzdankmuzik

Жыл бұрын

Yeah arrest the crooks in gov first..chop the head 🐍

@Joseph-no9yr

Жыл бұрын

our jails would say otherwise....lick that boot

We are going the same way in the UK. The law protects scum. If you are a retail worker or security and you engage in a confrontation with these pieces of garbage you could end up losing your job. If you chase one of them outside the store and they are hit by a Bus then you could find yourself on a Manslaughter charge. It's crazy.

@Peter43John

Жыл бұрын

You call them Labour & we call them Democrats: same thing-PINKOS! 😂

@brendabrenda6843

Жыл бұрын

@@Peter43John Have you been to Appalachia. I live in central PA where everyone votes republican, and the druggy criminal addicts here are out of control. This is not exclusive to blue cities.

@Peter43John

Жыл бұрын

@@brendabrenda6843 please, spare me! I just moved from Crook County, Il to Whiting Indiana: I feel as if I moved to another country! This crap is mostly occuring in bleeding heart PINKO cities with their bleeding heart Democrat leaders who want to defund the police and stand behind the criminals-and the criminals know it!

@TheIVJackal

Жыл бұрын

@@brendabrenda6843 Conservative media doesn't show them that, they think homelessness, thievery, and drug use only happens on the West coast, it's incredibly ignorant.

@397coney7

Жыл бұрын

Its the Democrat way. Im no fan of Republicans, but this is not the only city this is happening and it's in every Democrat-run city and state. Democrats are sick people.

Stereotyping works. Don't let these animals in the store.

The final year I worked at a Home Depot, I moved onto my new career during our yearly inventory count, and they were at -$6.2 million dollars in missing merchandise, and they weren’t done counting yet. It first was a mild joke amongst our staff until the number kept going up and up and up, then the jokes stopped and even the chatter stopped. We knew we’d been hit many times and see run outs with carts full. Management was trying to spin this on the employees like well “if you guys would say hello to customers more, they’ll see you and not steal.” Loss prevention at stores are a joke for the most part. They’ll claim how brilliant and high tech they are, and they’ll ingrain that into their associates too through training videos. But it’s a total joke. When I watch these things I just automatically think how dumb the ones at Target or Best Buy are, cause for some reason those 2 stores are the ones that have the loss prevention who are “allowed” to chase thieves and tackle them and yank the merchandise back. But seemingly no other stores are really like this.

Having to explain why stealing is bad is absurd.

@elderassassin9673

Жыл бұрын

Blm

@avivacohen8785

Жыл бұрын

Except, unfortunately, in this generation u gave to teach NO Stealing Lying Cheating Killing Hitting Respect others Do no harm to anyone or anything Must be ingrained from an early age a d reinforced Billboards all over Country Don't be a 2 legged animal Act like a human being

@kil2250

Жыл бұрын

"Got to eat to live, got to steal to eat. I'll tell you all about when i got the time."

@jonny777bike

Жыл бұрын

It's easy to explain why stealing is bad you just need hand cuffs and give them a 6 x 10 cell. We need to build bigger prisons but they must be run humanly. No over crowding. Teach prisoners to do employable skills. We also need to stop rewarding women who initiate unilateral divorce with primary child custody. Child custody must come from a default standpoint of shared custody.

@whodoesntlikesurfing

Жыл бұрын

But Joe Biden and Pelosi can do it?

Why is the contrast so dark on most of the perps?

So far in 2022, prosecutors in Multnomah County are prosecuting 46% of theft cases involving less than $1,000 in goods. That’s compared to an 84% prosecution rate in Clackamas County, and a 93% prosecution rate in Washington County for the same crimes, according to data provided by all three offices. Unacceptable.

In the Middle East they used to remove your hand if you were caught stealing.... not sure if they still do that or not? But if you look at it that way you only can mess up/get caught two times.........

This is such a problem even more so these days. I see this all the time I live in Brentwood Ca in contra costa county I have seen people walk right out of Home Depot pushing a cart full of items without going through a cashier, not running but walking like they weren’t doing anything wrong. I have seen women in Safeway with a large duffel bag in their cart just filling it up then go through the self checkout and ring up a few items but not what was in the duffel bag. I reported when I saw people steeling liquor from Safeway but nothing was done and they acted like I was bothering them for reporting it.

@junioradult6219

9 ай бұрын

You live in cali🤦‍♂️poor guy. Couldnt pay me to move anywere on the west coast. What was paradise in the 50s is now a craphole

I mean what are we supposed to do?? The person trying to stop them will most likely be the one to get hurt, then slapped with the assault charge, well the shop lifters go free for awhile longer

@regulator7931

Жыл бұрын

Nothing you can do on the legal side of things

@huntersmith8934

Жыл бұрын

who cares? People stealing from Target does not harm anyone. maybe try minding your own business?

@wonlop469

Жыл бұрын

It's not your stuff, why would you try to stop them?

@KirkFickert

Жыл бұрын

@@huntersmith8934 "Why can't I afford to shop at Target anymore, the prices are too high"...

@jones2088

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t say I would try to stop them, I’m just pointing out there’s nothing anyone can do about it

Why is it so hard to understand that people will do bad things when they are not held accountable for thier actions? As much as we do not want to believe, its just human nature. This is the result of the values you placed in your own laws and elected officials. Quit digging you own hole, be a Dem or Rep, just recognize what your values can cause.

@Ryan30431

Жыл бұрын

For the ring leaders, I agree. But for those drug addicts and mental ill people actually hitting the store, as soon as they are out of jail they will go right back. We need some real drug treatment and mental health care. But for those ringleaders who are putting these people up to this... Throw the book at them!

@MrOvertoad

Жыл бұрын

@@Ryan30431 I agree, but real drug treatment can be a punishment at first. Getting clean is not easy. Getting cleaned up and becoming a contributing member of your community again, should be your pentenance. Trying to be better should be a requirement which can grant you amnesty for your past actions. I see a lot of homeless saying "do you think I want to be here?" If thats true, prove it. Work with your local Gov and try to be better. For the ringleaders, double the penalty for their crimes and put them away. Very stiff penalities, crime will slow down when people can't live the jail after they have been arrested. The word will get out. The risk is to high again.

@closer20jc

Жыл бұрын

@@Ryan30431 you cant force drug treatment. They have to want it and they dont. Offering services is what made this problem so much bigger. We need progressives to stop trying to "help"

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

That's not why they do "bad" things. Were in a fucking recession with out of control inflation. People are desperate because they cant afford basic needs anymore. But please, keep caring more for a corporations profits than you fo the people who are struggling in your community. Bunch of brain dead retards

@MrOvertoad

Жыл бұрын

​@@skyisreallyhigh3333 I'm sorry, wtf are you talking about? Are you really defending organized crime? Did you know that in the last 10 months, 66 businesses have closed their doors in Portal due to high crime from both organized groups and the homeless? Most are small buisness owners like you could be or one of your family members. They are people actively trying to contribute to their community and sociaty. Your logic is confused, America is built on people's hard work and not the perpetuation and defence of orginized crime. Wake up.

at least they're stealing from big corporations and not mugging the little guys.

I'm glad they didn't blur out the criminal's faces. Better to let us know who not to trust.

I literally witnessed this just the other day, I was visiting a Walmart down in Biloxi Mississippi, and as I’m walking to the door I see a dude walking past the registers with a backpack on with the tag STILL attached that has been clearly filled up with stuff. The door lady tries to ask him for his receipt but he continues on and ignores her like she was never there and then passes me and the theft alarm goes off, still just walking on like nothing, because this video is right, they know there is nothing they can do to stop them. We live in a country, where criminals are a protected class….

@DeepFriedDave

Жыл бұрын

Consider it pay back for all of the decades these retailers have stolen from their workers and their communities and lived on government subsidies at the expense of their workers. No healthcare, layoffs whenever they needed their stock price to go up for earnings reports, no time off for employees, and putting small shops out of business. I don't feel bad for walmart, Target or Nike (that essentually uses slave labor in their asian shoe factories) AT ALL! You should welcome their destruction

@kennethward4985

Жыл бұрын

Senile Joe Biden's America.

@RoverTheDog1

Жыл бұрын

Businesses are and always have been allowed to stop and even detain shoplifters. It's called shop keepers privilege and every state has a law saying this. The reason stores don't is liability. Having employees stop shoplifters isn't worth the risk of them being injured or worse, and insurance companies don't like it, so they let them leave.

@kennethward4985

Жыл бұрын

@@RoverTheDog1 Democrat Thugs, BLM & Antifa, have used masks as a weapon, it's time for us to do the same. Have a masked guy with a baseball bat near the door.

@aeonsbeyond

Жыл бұрын

@@kennethward4985 Most Americans were complete assholes long before Joe Biden as you easily prove

I remember as a kid, seeing some kiddo steal a coat at lloyd center mall, immediately get detained by 3 guards, and then sent to the cops for trying to steal a coat. Meanwhile, 25 ish years later, I went to Lowes in Portland. And saw this dude run through the exit with a cart fully loaded with stolen stuff he did not pay for. It's a wild world where criminals have more rights than anyone in Portland.

@robertomalatesta6604

Жыл бұрын

...except city officials

@whodoesntlikesurfing

Жыл бұрын

He should have defended himself against the security guards

@travelinman70

Жыл бұрын

dude, I was 15 shopping with my mom and tried stealing a cassette. suspended sentence if I see a therapist every month for 6 months. Had to wait to join the Army until the case was dropped. just about ruined my life!!!

@OffTom5783

Жыл бұрын

it's absurd...

@mamalovesthebeach437

Жыл бұрын

Sort of ironic isn’t it? I remember my sister got caught stealing a $3.50 bottle of shampoo at longs drug store when we were kids 50+ years ago. They not only detained her, but they cuffed her at 14 years old. She not only was publicly humiliated she got a shakedown at home. 😆

My husband worked at Lowes for about two years and there policy at Lowes was to not touch anyone if they were shoplifting as the repercussions were too risky….and the criminals knew this….walking out with all sorts of stuff….I was shocked!

This is a everyday thing in San Francisco.

Portland brought this upon itself! No interview of Mike Schmidt?

When I worked at a large store in Portland, we were told not to do anything about a shoplifter other than alert the manager. This is mainly due to criminals having more rights than the non criminals. If a person were to accuse someone of stealing before they leave the store property, the criminal can sue for false arrest claiming that he/she never left and was going to pay for the items, even though it was obvious they had zero intentions of paying for anything.

@clementthurn1992

Жыл бұрын

Fuck these thugs. Shame on them and the useless judges and DA's that don't want to do anything. Screw the scheister attorneys that defend these people too.

@yia01

Жыл бұрын

it not that the criminal have more right, it just that they take advantage of every right they have. and yes, until they leave the property, they havent steal anything. as an employee with the multi-billion dollar company behind you, if u do anything stupid and teh theft pretend to fell and hurt him/herself, that a major milti-million dollar law sue from teh theft, and the company still have to pick up ur worker comp too if ur hurt, it a double lose for the company. so it in their best interest to just let it go as long as no one get physically hurt. if the problem get to the point where they are losing un-sustainable profit, they just move business else where. they dotn lose anything, its teh community that lose out if they move business. it teh community that voted for official to run teh city that way, and if the official u voted for dont do their job and ur community suffer, well u got no one to blame for but urself since it was ur vote that put them in office. this generation are brain wash to think that deciding which bathroom to use is far more important then anything else, so they spend 99% of their time figting for bathroom usage right rathern then important stuff like survivability for food source.

@wildlifeathome

Жыл бұрын

@@yia01 So true, and so sad.

@jonw999999

Жыл бұрын

I get that the Democrats love criminals but why arent the Republicans putting forth legislation stripping criminals of the ability to sue while they commit crimes?

@capnobvious2718

Жыл бұрын

I worked retail for nearly 3 decades. Yes, the average employee was NOT to apprehend shoplifters. THAT DIDN'T MEAN EVERY SHOPLIFTER WAS GIVEN FREE REIGN OF THE STORE. Up until I quit about a decade ago, SHOPLIFTERS WERE DETAINED AND ARRESTED by those trained to apprehend and of course law enforcement. Quit lying to people acting as if NO ONE was ever arrested for shoplifting. The free reign didn't happen until recently, and because everyone is so afraid and happy to live in fear, evidently for the rest of their lives now.

i am so glad my parents came to australia, life is more civil here !!!

Employees have gotten fired for attempting to stop shoplifters. Also fired for just going out to jot down their license plate. Amazing to live in an era where the thieves are rewarded but the honest, conscientious folks are kicked to the curb.

We would fly in to Portland from another state on my way to the Oregon coast. We would set a couple of days aside to stay in the Pearl District and partake in the shopping and restaurants. Let me state this clearly, there's no way in hell you would get me to stop in Portland. The Homelessness and drug abuse is ridiculous.

@leelaural

Жыл бұрын

been to Portland many times and frankly I have no idea what the appeal is or was......its seems like a dirty cement jungle and normally, it gets plenty of rainfall but when it doesn't everything looks brown and dry and they don't have sprinkler systems to counteract the dry spells.....only good thing about Portland is they have good Goodwills and they have Bob's Red Mill.....

@thomasbrown7609

Жыл бұрын

@@leelaural lol spot on! :)

This is insane… need to be able to prosecute crime like this

@guru6831

Жыл бұрын

When Civilization Falls

@capnobvious2718

Жыл бұрын

WE ARE ABLE TO! The idiots in law enforcement and the laughable 'justice' department CHOOSE not to, and WE allow them to CHOOSE not to.

@ryancummings5295

Жыл бұрын

Share the wealth bro!

@GuitarWithBrett

Жыл бұрын

@@ryancummings5295 I agree but not like that , just feeds into more division and problems in communities

@richardbroner9852

Жыл бұрын

citizens arrest

There won"t be stores anymore in the future. Everything will be ordered online then hand delivered to you.

Minus grocery stores and pharmacies people will probably have to shop online only.

it's almost like people realize that the liability of getting involved isn't worthwhile. if I get hurt, who pays my medical bills? if I hurt the thief, who pays for my legal bills? we've created a country where it makes more sense to stand by and buy get involved

@charleshoang566

Жыл бұрын

So this country is going to slide into lawlessness and will become another Haiti sooner or later.

@Johnpaul-vu8tn

Жыл бұрын

@@charleshoang566 got another idea? I'm not about to lose everything... Are you planning on jumping into the fire lol

@charleshoang566

Жыл бұрын

@@Johnpaul-vu8tn 😄😁😂.

@Itsnotavailable

Жыл бұрын

if your hurt the criminal you ain’t Paying for their bills either!!! how is it you have in your mind you fear criminals 🙄🙄🙄 hurt the criminal and leave!!!

@mjdayetube

Жыл бұрын

Yes. If you were paying attention, you saw this coming years ago.

In an alternate universe, store owners could use a middleman to hire sadistic masked thugs to stand guard and beat the living crap out of anyone they caught stealing. The thugs would be paid in cash by the middleman, off the books, and the store owner would have deniability. Something like paying some Mafia goons protection money, but then actually getting protection.

@ozzyhouston2535

Жыл бұрын

Then there would just be fights in the parking lot involving crowbars, knives and guns.

@danspencer4235

Жыл бұрын

@@ozzyhouston2535 But what's the problem?

@dragomilosevic4823

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a dystopian movie like robocop

@MS-yx3dr

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@MS-ns2pj

Жыл бұрын

The assault is a much more serious crime than the shoplifting.