What would you do to protect yourself as a store owner?📍Glendale, California

Shaddup, ya idiot.

     Once again, Toad has afforded us another example of the brilliance, eloquence and intelligence that he wishes to share.

Typical diversion from what I took the trouble to post.

Candy

When Libs began defunding police, neutering police, and bad mouthing police, it was obvious to sensible people that crime would spike.  Here we are, thanks to Libs.

BTW, I'm at a friend's place in Denver, and his daughter and son-in-law are here.  They live 1 mile SW of Old Town Chicago.  He has lived there for 15 years.  He said that the area has gone down hill fast since police hating and criminal loving policies began 4 years ago.

Nice job of fucking things up, Libs.

My initial approach would be to locate / relocate my brick and mortar retail outlet in localities with old-fashioned law enforcement and district attorneys who still believe in prosecuting these thugs. Without that, the short and long term future for my business is bleak (as demonstrated in numerous locales in this country of late). There has to be measurable consequences for breaking the law or we're kinda doomed from the outset as a society. Every business owner doesn't desire to sell his / her wares via Amazon.

I'd attempt to solicit private funding ( loans / grants) to hire two or three armed and trained security guards to be positioned at the store front ( effective visual deterrent approach to stop theft before it happened). Owners would have to employ a portion of this retail militia 24/7 or those same thugs would return during closed hours and vandalize / burn the store to the ground. The number hired would be contingent on the particular threat need ( location) and how effective / ineffective the local law enforcement machine is. It's been blatantly ineffective in some well-known areas of late;  the backlash response to these armed guards would be a daily news story emanating from the easily offended crowd ( which is rampant). Let em rant if the approach curtails theft. Let that proportion of society perform their store front boycotts/ protests. Then depend on that local effective law enforcement machine to disperse their whining asses. Yeah..whining asses.

Upgrade tehnological theft prevention options..more surveillance cameras, RFID tags on merchandise, and the like. All that escalates costs that chews into any profit margin that business owners expect in order to remain viable. The major retail corporations can afford these measures while the mom and pop entities will need some financial resources.   These small businesses might be able to solicit supplemental grant funding through some old or new version of the SBA Program Support program; reluctantly that might throw expectations towards and from the government which could always result in a tenuous outcome. Perhaps a theft prevention Economic Injury Disaster  Loan (EIDL) similar to what they offered during COVID ? Pipedream, maybe...or likely.

What I wouldn't do is participate in a somewhat obscure online forum by pretending that these retail organized theft / crime incidences aren't a problem  or minimize its significance in today's US environment. Multiplicative costs ( direct and indirect) are involved.The ultimate solution will involve swift and effective deterrents and consequences for lawbreakers; that simply isn't happening in some locales.

I think they ought to backroom these detained thugs and force them to listen to old Slim Whitman yodeling tunes during  interrogation; that might encourage the perpetrators to turn their lives around on the spot. Course, that would probably violate their civil rights; scratch that one as an initial form of punishment (cruel and unusual, granted).

You're supporting a candidate who has 90 felony indictments and is threatening to defund the FBI and DOJ.  And he daily ridicules the judges, lawyers, and grand jury members of our law enforcement and judicial instituions.     And he gives out their home addresses to the psycho disciples of his clan so they can harrass and make death threats to those targets..   And thats who you want to be leader of our country. 

So good job of fucking things up.

  You really are a piece of work. The "candidate" you refer to has 90 fictitious indictments against him. The FBI and the DOJ need to be defunded - they are corrupt. The judges, lawyers, and grand jury members deserve to be ridiculed for their unconstitutional actions. Yes, that is the kind of leader America needs to deal with the DemocRats and their America ruining agenda. The DemocRats HAVE done a sickening job of fucking America up.