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Originally Posted by Villagesgal
My daughter lives in Seattle, they passed a law that basically legalized shoplifting if you are homeless, so there is a run on shoplifting with people filling carts and just walking out with no one stopping them. She was at Target yesterday and couldn't believe what was happening, people were pushing their carts out the IN door walking right past the registers and never paying. She watched this for over 10 minutes then asked at Customer Service why no one was stopping them and was told it's store policy not to confront since the new law went into effect. At least here they get reported and get a notice to appear.
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A google search fails to find any evidence that the law has changed in Seattle. There was a
proposal that went nowhere to after arrest and in front of a jury a person could plead poverty as the reason for theft, and
it not only did not pass, no law was even written.
I did find a story from
June in Seattle where a police task force assigned plain clothes LEO's to several large stores, including a Target, to arrest shoplifters.
Whatever your daughter thinks is going on, or not going on, in Seattle, there has been absolutely no change in their shoplifting laws.