Police in one Southern California city are laying down the law—literally—when it comes to retail theft.
In a social media post showing a woman being arrested for allegedly stealing flowers from a Target store on Mother’s Day, the Seal Beach Police Department outlined its “zero-tolerance stance” on theft affecting businesses both large and small.
“Post-COVID, retail theft surged across California. In some jurisdictions, it’s become so normalized that it’s barely reported, let alone prosecuted,” the department said. “But in Seal Beach, we made a conscious choice to take a different path.”…