Exclusive: Wild rise of the 'flash rob
mobs' making off with hundreds of thousands
of dollars of designer goods in under
60 seconds: Crimewave will cost California
$19BILLION-a-year - as state sets up task
force to tackle brazen thieves
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Joe Hutchison
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/16/2023 10:19:53 AM
A distressing new crime trend known as 'flash rob mobs' is on the rise and likely to cost California a whopping $19billion a year, guidance from the LAPD warns.
The incidents have become increasingly frequent in soft-on-crime California, where detectives in the state's largest police force are now assembling designated teams to tackle the problem.
The groups have been pillaging stores including Nordstrom and Versace. In response to the recent spate, officials at the Los Angeles Police Department have formed a taskforce, named the the Organized Retail Crime Taskforce (ORCT).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 9/16/2023 10:27:21 AM (No. 1557339)
Quiet chuckle - the "chickens have come home to roost!"
27 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
2assume 9/16/2023 10:42:02 AM (No. 1557345)
Post sign on door. Looters will be shot. Shoot to kill.
40 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
joew9 9/16/2023 10:48:29 AM (No. 1557355)
"task force" That's a spit take. Maybe they will slap them on the wrist really hard with a feather. But it's more likely that any police officer they assign to do some enforcing will likely end up in jail instead of the perps.
28 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/16/2023 10:50:02 AM (No. 1557356)
Allow the store owners to hire security. Two at the front door with oozies, and at least one inside with a machine gun.
16 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/16/2023 10:54:22 AM (No. 1557362)
Set up a task force? These people are not afraid of jail. They're selling their loot on eBay, and on the street. Why not just start shooting looters? The looting will stop when some of these brazen thieves wind up two dimensional, ventilated. Or, going the more labor intensive route, when large numbers of thieves are rounded up and given real prison terms. How does law enforcement throw a net over a Louis Vuitton store? In this life, you get what you put up with. If criminals aren't dealt with with properly, entire areas might be without any retail stores. Stolen completely out of business. No excuse.
32 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
coobr03 9/16/2023 11:12:14 AM (No. 1557381)
One wonders if the "task force" will be led by a "blue ribbon committee?"
19 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/16/2023 11:15:36 AM (No. 1557384)
I can tell the "task force" what they are looking for in three words - Common Sense Governance.
10 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/16/2023 11:20:07 AM (No. 1557387)
It makes no difference what the police do, if the prosecuting attorneys do not do their job and prosecute the perps.
18 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
0658 9/16/2023 11:20:59 AM (No. 1557389)
How about something novel like enforcing the law. Oh! sorry I forgot, these deviants and thieves are a protected class.
Whenever government does not want to deal directly with a problem / crime they form a committee or task force to delay taking action and spread the blame for any minor action they may take. "We were only doing what the committee (notice unnamed individuals) told us to do". Not one of these incompetent bureaucrats is willing to make a decision that impacts directly on the minorities involved.
12 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
mifla 9/16/2023 11:23:15 AM (No. 1557392)
The same people who set up a task force for reparations.
Good luck with that.
Want to stop crime? Throw the book at looters.
14 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 9/16/2023 11:27:06 AM (No. 1557397)
What, no more "defundng the police"? Gee, are these idiots discovering what every sane person always knew.....that criminals must be captured and locked away from interaction with normal people?
Dems are a mix of evil leaders trying to create anarchy so they can take over and herds of just intensely stupid people
15 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/16/2023 11:35:09 AM (No. 1557407)
Shoot them. After a few bad experiences the braver survivors will come armed, get a second dose, then the survivors will cease blatant operations.
12 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/16/2023 11:36:33 AM (No. 1557410)
Stores will be installing two sets of entrance doors in series that you will have to be buzzed through with a limited number of patrons allowed in the store at a time. Sort of like a jail.
14 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 9/16/2023 11:43:46 AM (No. 1557418)
Heh, when you can't do what you need to do, organize a committee to organize a task force to study the problem and make recommendations...they know what they need to do, but don't have the cojones to do it...not in liberal Kalifornia anyway....#2 has the answer...
10 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Cousair 9/16/2023 11:55:13 AM (No. 1557429)
High end stores should install turnstiles similar to subway entry points. Have the turnstiles lock when “flash mobs” are inside until security personnel arrive
9 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
FormerDem 9/16/2023 11:55:33 AM (No. 1557431)
I think they should seed some trash in their stores, so that stolen luxury stuff eventually flags itself and those carrying it.
5 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/16/2023 11:55:34 AM (No. 1557432)
Feral tribes.
11 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 9/16/2023 12:14:40 PM (No. 1557445)
The only "task force" that is going to fix this is armed merchants with immunity from porsecution for using deadly force to protect their property.
12 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
GrampaTerry 9/16/2023 12:31:48 PM (No. 1557454)
What about the Somali pirates? Didn't their operations slow down considerably when they started getting blown out of the water?
11 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/16/2023 12:35:08 PM (No. 1557460)
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
7 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 9/16/2023 12:48:41 PM (No. 1557470)
Settle down, the pack - each and every one of them - are just trying to get bread to feed their kids.
And the task force will also be stealing from the public, not just with inflated pay checks but also with the oh-so-important credentials that come with being on the task force.
3 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 9/16/2023 12:48:42 PM (No. 1557471)
In a different New York City, long ago, like in the 60 with saner people in charge, NYPD ran a "stakeout squad" because of the very violent and frequent robberies occurring in small stores in NYC. They'd set up a team of two or three officers, hidden behind some sort of a temporary barricade, often in a raised position, and assigned their best marksmen to this squad. Jim Cirillo became a bit of a legend for a substantial number of gunfights, often against multiple shotgun wielding robbers. The robbers went either to the morgue or the hospital, and after a few years of great success, the pukes at city hall lost their nerve and disbanded the stakeout squad, unfortunately. While it was working, crime dropped a lot in NYC.
Similar squads would work here....but there are certainly no politicians or top police leaders today who would have to stomach to do what needs to be done.
8 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
dwa 9/16/2023 12:56:54 PM (No. 1557474)
Gee, who-da-thought this would happen when your policy is soft on crime.
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/16/2023 1:06:04 PM (No. 1557482)
Start shooting or stop whining.
8 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
KTWO 9/16/2023 1:26:50 PM (No. 1557491)
Editorial: I wish it were otherwise but the only way I see to handle the problem is severe sentences to any rob mob member caught. Even if the person(s) caught in the act were just tools recruited by more clever leaders.
In other words, drop the idea that all consequences must seem "fair" when dealing with an organized criminal activity.
When the word goes out that life sentences are being imposed for, "Gee, it was just a fun robbery and trashing and a way to make me a quick $100" the allure of particpating will quickly diminish.
Of course if you want more, not less, of these orgranized lootings then form a commission of experts to study how and what might someday possibly be done. IOW, ask Newsom, status quo, and full speed ahead.
5 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Msquared112 9/16/2023 1:32:04 PM (No. 1557494)
Dear Newsom: You and your DA asked for this, Now wear it.
5 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
garyhope 9/16/2023 1:40:37 PM (No. 1557497)
First,...Double locking reinforced, unbreakable doors. You can only go through one door at a time. The other door is locked,...the second one locks behind you and some one buzzes you in or out. Be located on a second or higher floor. locking stairs that you must be buzzed in or out. One person at a time. Third,..... you steal something,....you get shot on the spot. Your body is dumped in a lake or river or your body is transported to your mama's house and dumped on her front porch with a sign on your body that says "Thief" Adios MF'er. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
7 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
FJB 9/16/2023 1:44:04 PM (No. 1557501)
Seems one of those crooks is stiff as a board by the front door. Pity.
3 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
garyhope 9/16/2023 1:51:19 PM (No. 1557503)
"Kill em all. God can sort them out."
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/16/2023 2:39:20 PM (No. 1557513)
Task force will decide the solution is more free stuff.
4 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/16/2023 3:00:44 PM (No. 1557523)
Newsom's CA is a rampage and pillage free state. Well earned Gavin.
3 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/16/2023 3:57:30 PM (No. 1557544)
They tried that in Atlanta, #22. It was years ago but very successful. Turns out that the perps were all of a certain demographic and, as you say, city hall lost their nerve.
3 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
formerNYer 9/16/2023 4:12:00 PM (No. 1557549)
The chickens have come home to roost
2 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/16/2023 4:51:31 PM (No. 1557573)
Democraps deserve whatever they get...they're just too stupid to know why this is happening.
Hint Morons, Double Lock doors, the perps try to leave the story with stolen goods, they get into the first door but once between the doors they all lock and Sleeping GAS is released...now they have NO excuses but to clean up the mess and Jail all the THIEVES!
2 people like this.
Simple...... shoot to kill!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/16/2023 11:47:41 PM (No. 1557733)
Let;s waste big bucks on a "task force" instead of enforcing the laws.
1 person likes this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
tootall 9/17/2023 8:25:32 AM (No. 1557871)
I have noticed lots of advertisements on TV for software that lets one easily set up a business that could be used to sell luxury items online. This stolen merch (shrinkage) has to be going somewhere. I'm just sayin'
1 person likes this.
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