The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more.
The “crime panic” was a myth. But an analysis by The Appeal shows the narrative helped local police buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, social media surveillance tech, and more.
$1200 is when it becomes a felony (at least where you are it seems). It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some stores’ loss prevention didn’t physically stop a person until they know they’ve hit that threshold. Most stores won’t stop people at all for liability reasons, so maybe they start taking it more seriously when it hits the felony threshold.
Maybe local police don’t want them to call them every time there’s a misdemeanor level shoplifting, because who fucking cares.
Prison and jail are two different things. If it’s about private prisons making money, then it would make sense to go for felonies over misdemeanors. You generally don’t go to prison for misdemeanor shoplifting so nobody is making money in that case.
$1000 is a felony here. And less than that is up to a year in jail and $2500 fine.
No they aren’t going to physically stop you, they are going to call the police, and report your tags and report your face.
Yes jail and prison are different.