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Retailers Sound Alarm Bell Over Huge Spike in Organized Shoplifting
Oregon prepares legislative response to crack down on thieves.

Published
7 months agoon

Retailers in Oregon are sounding the alarm bell over huge spikes in organized shoplifting after Walmart was forced to close its final two stores in Portland.
Oregon legislators are introducing a package of bills in an attempt to fight back against the lawlessness, which according to Michael Zacher, a detective with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, is “largely driven by substance abuse.”
However, the bills aren’t related to changing the state’s increasingly permissive view of drug enforcement, but focus more on increasing penalties for criminals engaged in organized theft.
Senate Bill 318 would set aside $5 million dollars to help authorities crack down on theft in cities and counties, while changes to Senate Bill 340 would stiffen penalties for organized retail theft, which under Oregon law involves working with another person to steal $5,000 or more worth of merchandise within a 90 day period.
Other changes would also empower authorities to charge thieves with a felony rather than a misdemeanor if they recklessly endanger other people in the course of a crime.
“In Oregon, Safeway/Albertson’s complains of losing more than $15 million in Multnomah County stores over the last eight years,” reports Oregon Public Broadcasting. “Police agencies talk of coordinated efforts to steal large amounts of merchandise, then sell it on the web or via flea markets. Store employees say they can feel unsafe as thieves carry out brazen thefts.”
Earlier this week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the Walmart closures on lawlessness in Portland and laid the blame squarely at the feet of Mayor Ted Wheeler.
Governor Abbott, are the dozens of Walmart stores that have closed in Texas in recent years all communities that "refuse to enforce the rule of law?" The retail industry is changing and retail theft is a national issue. https://t.co/pFVf0HwD4W
— Mayor Ted Wheeler (@tedwheeler) March 7, 2023
600 employees face being let go or transferred as a result oft he closures, which Walmart refused to blame on theft despite CEO Doug McMillon previously lamenting a rise in “shrink,” an industry term for in-store theft.
Nike was also forced to close the doors to its neighborhood store in Northeast Portland and has asked the city to provide off-duty police officers to guard the premises, a request unlikely to be met due to an existing shortage of officers, partly a consequence of the BLM-inspired ‘defund the police’ movement.
OBI lobbyist Derek Sangston told lawmakers that the organized thefts were not homeless people trying to get by or kids stealing candy bars but rather the work of “organized retail crime syndicates.”
As we previously reported, Amazon recently announced it will be closing several grocery stores in high crime cities like NYC, Seattle and San Francisco, but claims the measure is related to “cost-cutting”.
As we highlight in the video below, all across America, the streets of Democrat-run cities are being taken over by the mad, the mentally ill and criminal mobs.
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Murder Crisis Plagues DC As Mayor Begs For More Officers After ‘Defunding Police’
Published
2 days agoon
29 September, 2023Zero Hedge

How it started.

How it’s going?
#NEW – Mayor Bowser on DC’s rising crime and 200+ homicides…
— Lorenzo Hall (@LorenzoHall) September 27, 2023
She says DC needs more police officers. @WUSA9 pic.twitter.com/VCApKXxzHJ
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a former supporter of the ‘defund the police’ movement, urgently calls for increased policing as the nation’s capital faces an out-of-control murder crisis.
“What I can say is this: To me, numbers are just numbers. When we lose one person — whether it’s one or 200 — that’s too many,” Bowser said at a press conference earlier this week.
Of course, Bowser, like many Democrat mayors, blames firearms as the issue, deflecting any possibility her disastrous social justice reforms only embolden criminals – while punishing law-abiding taxpayers -across the imploding Washington, DC metro area.
Even the Washington Post can’t ignore the murder crisis:
For the first time in a quarter-century, the year’s homicide toll in Washington has surpassed 200 before October — a mark of surging violence that has angered and distressed local leaders, drawn scrutiny from Congress and made some residents question whether they can safely live in the nation’s capital.
WaPo added:
The last time D.C. logged its 200th homicide before October was Aug. 12, 1997, in a year that ended with 303 people slain, according to police data. After that, annual totals generally trended downward, staying below 200 from 2004 to 2020, with a low of 88 in 2012. But the killing pace has picked up again, reaching 226 in 2021.
Heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, Democrats will never admit their social justice reforms have failed. They conveniently blame guns.
Directly north of D.C. lies another crime-ridden metro area: Baltimore City. And this week, mass looting was seen in Philadelphia. And just north of Baltimore and Philadelphia, New York City’s progressive mayor recently warned of financial ruins due to a migrant crisis.
Democrats have transformed cities into absolute messes.
This post was originally published at Zero Hedgecrime
Lawlessness Spreads To Suburbia: Westport Man Carjacked In Own Garage
Published
1 week agoon
22 September, 2023Zero Hedge

Violent crime appears to be spreading to suburbia. For the millions of Americans who fled crime-ridden metro areas where Democrat leaders failed to enforce law and order, the dramatic video of a carjacker assaulting a Westport, Connecticut, man in his garage for his Aston Martin serves as a wakeup call to better defend yourself and loves ones.
Westport Journal reports that the Westport Police Department released dramatic security footage from a Ring camera that shows a residential burglary and carjacking on Bayberry Lane on Sunday afternoon. Two suspects assaulted the man in his garage and stole his Aston Martin.
“They surround the vehicle and drag the man from the car as he calls for someone in the home to contact police. The intruders appear to repeatedly strike the man as he tries to fend them off,” the local media outlet said.
Westport police Lt. Eric Woods said the victim was targeted and followed back to his residence. “Therefore, Westport Police are encouraging residents to be aware of their surroundings and report any suspicious behavior to 911,” he said.
The consequence of failed Democrat policies in major cities has only emboldened criminals who are now expanding their theft wave to suburbia. It’s also a cautionary sign for homeowners who might want to explore firearms training to defend themselves, their families, and their property.
Meanwhile, the average police response time is more than ten minutes. And Democrat lawmakers want to strip the public of firearms (see New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham‘s latest 2A overreach).
The video proves the Westport man couldn’t afford to wait just one minute.
This post was originally published at Zero Hedgecrime
Serial Killer Billy Chemirmir ‘Killed by Cellmate’ in Texas Prison
The judge in the case declared a mistrial.

Published
2 weeks agoon
20 September, 2023Chris Menahan | Information Liberation

Convicted murderer Billy Chemirmir, an illegal alien from Kenya suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, was reportedly killed in prison on Tuesday morning by his cellmate.
From WFAA, “Convicted North Texas killer Billy Chemirmir killed in prison, officials say”:
Convicted North Texas killer Billy Chemirmir, who was suspected in over 20 murders, was killed in a state prison Tuesday morning, officials confirmed to WFAA.
Chemirmir, 50, was serving life in prison without parole after he was twice found guilty of capital murder by Dallas County juries. He was accused of killing 20 other women in Dallas and Collin counties and still faced charges in those cases.
The Dallas County District Attorney’s office confirmed they were notified by Texas prison officials that Chemirmir was killed Tuesday morning. State prison officials confirmed that Chemirmir was found dead in his cell early Tuesday and his cellmate, who was serving on a murder charge out of Harris County, was “identified as the assailant.”
Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot told WFAA that Chemirmir was killed after apparently making inappropriate comments sexual in nature towards his cellmate’s children. According to Creuzot, the cellmate allegedly beat Chemirmir, dragged him out of his cell and killed him while other inmates watched. No one intervened and Chemirmir may have been stabbed with a pen, Creuzot said.
They should identify the cellmate so the public can send him letters of appreciation.
Authorities suspected Chemirmir could be involved in around 1,000 suspicious deaths in Texas but tried to convict him in 2021 specifically for killing 24 elderly patients who were overwhelmingly female and white.
Despite having a slam dunk case, one single female juror who “didn’t even go back to [look at the evidence]” and “had her mind made up before she walked in” refused to convict, according to family member of a victim who was in the courtroom.
The judge in the case declared a mistrial and two new trials had to be held for separate victims in order to secure convictions.
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