The SFPD announced that a retail theft-abatement operation which began in late November has resulted in 60 arrests to date.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco police department burglary unit announced that its retail theft-abatement operation which began in late November has resulted in 60 arrests to date.
Outside the Ross store on Market Street Friday evening, shoppers queued up to enter the store. It's one way the store is trying to reduce rampant theft by limiting the number of people inside the store at any given time. "I think it changes the time we shop sometimes. I try to get more done during the daytime. I definitely wouldn't have gone out alone as much to shop because you just have a fear of being at the wrong place at the wrong time," Desuasido said."I do remember reading about a lot of stores being hit and you just feel really bad. Even the people who work the stores, the employees there and the people that are kind of scared.
"We have a perception among people in this city that there are no consequences. One, that they won't be caught when they conduct themselves in this fashion and that, even if they are, that there weren't appropriate consequences with that conduct. And so we have to change that culture here and we're doing it day by day, since I took over," Jenkins said.
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