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   From: stan@none.com   
      
   On 13 Dec 2023, Just Wondering  posted some   
   news:JcoeN.3350$STLe.3307@fx34.iad:   
      
   > On 12/13/2023 2:20 AM, useapen wrote:   
   >> The rise of organized retail crime will be front and center at a   
   >> Tuesday congressional hearing amid the end-of-year holiday shopping   
   >> boom.   
   >>   
   >> The House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on   
   >> Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence is holding a   
   >> hearing titled "From Festive Cheer to Retail Fear: Addressing   
   >> Organized Retail Crime."   
   >>   
   >> Among the witnesses expected to testify are representatives from Home   
   >> Depot and the National Retail Federation, according to a witness list   
   >> previewed by Fox News Digital.   
   >>   
   >> On the government side, lawmakers will hear from Homeland Security   
   >> officials in the Secret Service as well as Immigration and Customs   
   >> Enforcement.   
   >>   
   >> Subcommittee Chair August Pfluger, R-Texas, blamed "soft-on-crime   
   >> policies" for the problematic trend in a statement announcing the   
   >> hearing.   
   >>   
   >> "By putting criminals over communities, families, and small business   
   >> owners, hardworking Americans across the country are being forced to   
   >> pay the financial and emotional costs of these failed policies,"   
   >> Pfluger said.   
   >>   
   >> "Amid an unprecedented spike in retail crime, reports also suggest   
   >> many professional shoplifters or boosters are part of a much larger   
   >> organization of criminals — including transnational criminal   
   >> organizations (TCOs) that are taking advantage of our open borders,"   
   >> he added.   
   >>   
   >> Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., the top Democrat on the panel, said in a   
   >> statement, "Organized retail crime endangers small businesses,   
   >> workers, and consumers."   
   >>   
   >> It comes as big cities like Washington, D.C., and New York City deal   
   >> with rising retail theft issues.   
   >>   
   >> Big chain stores in those cities like CVS and others have been forced   
   >> to lock up merchandise behind plastic barriers to keep them from   
   >> being stolen off the shelves.   
   >>   
   >> A recent survey by the National Retail Federation found that 70% of   
   >> retailers believe organized retail theft has become a more prevalent   
   >> issue in recent years.   
   >>   
   >> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-examine-organized-retail-theft-   
   >> cities-amid-holidays   
   >>   
   > Accepting all that is true, what makes it a federal issue? Perhaps the   
   > repeal of the 9th and 10th Amendments?  I must have missed that one.   
      
   Organized crime interfering with commerce.  Doesn't that make it a RICO   
   offense?  It did for the mob, the cheating teachers of Atlanta and as   
   several black sacrificial leftist DAs saw it, Trump.   
      
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