California says it'll spend $267M to crack down on smash-and-grab robberies in retail stores

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1. A good step. And in addition, I suspect that retailers will spend more $ too in addressing this

issue.

Perhaps maybe in prosecuting these numerous crimes, that state authorities invoke some kind of 'retail' court, similar to traffic court, where defendants and prosecutors can deal w/ the sheer volume of crimes being committed, and perhaps starting up a 3 times you strike out, you get a mandatory sentence.

I know that a lot of retail operations are closing down, a lot are locking up their merchandise behind locked cabinet see-thru doors, perhaps eventually even getting to the point where customers aren't allowed into the stores themselves, must order all online, pick up.