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The thing is, it's not one off shoplifters. It's organized gangs of shoplifters.
Police will run enforcement actions from time to time, but it needs to be continual.
March: https://youtu.be/pKx-ZW1Juyo
April: https://youtu.be/__rktMVPMN4
August: https://youtu.be/kwOmqJDZeBA
Shoplifting gangs, I think, are one of the few crime outfits that think rationally. It's a game of risk and reward.
The retailers and manufacturers can influence the first factor, the police can only influence the second, and only the district attorneys and the Legislative Assembly can influence the third.
Crime is generally far more rational and systemically induced than you give it credit for. If you make it unnecessary to commit crimes, they generally happen less.