But this very case is an example of a corporate taxpayer getting screwed over by municipal indifference (to the point where they were hiring private security, but even that was not enough).
Part of my point is that they spend so much time on things like traffic tickets and civil forfeiture, little time is left for actually prosecuting these criminals.
https://priceonomics.com/how-police-officers-seize-cash-from...
It's a big cultural change that could take months or years to see the difference in daily shoplifting amounts.