“There is a link between drug trafficking and organized retail crime,” Kobach told lawmakers in June. In Kansas, Kobach says one scourge is fueling another: drugs, especially fentanyl addiction. Store employees are frustrated,” he said in an interview with CNN. Kansas lost approximately $642 million in stolen goods in 2021, he said. Republican Kris Kobach, Kansas’ attorney general, said retail crime is a “spiraling problem” in his state, adding that Kansas and Missouri are among the top 10 states in the nation for volume of retail crime. “I’ve lived in this city my entire life and to see this much retail crime, it’s shocking,” said Captain Casey Slaughter, who is in charge of the Wichita Police Department’s property crimes bureau. is also wrestling with the gravity and pervasiveness of retail theft. In America’s Midwest, a bustling, mid-sized metropolis, known for its rich entrepreneurial heritage as home to both Pizza Hut and The Coleman Co. In some cities like San Francisco, retailers are closing up shop, pointing the finger at crime.īut it’s not just big coastal cities grappling with the problem.
They’re in Wichita, Kansas.Ī pattern of store thefts - not just one-off petty shoplifting incidents, but more serious planned and brazen heists from pricey luxuries to everyday products – has retailers on edge across the country. They’re not in San Francisco, Chicago or New York, the way some might assume. The Cabela’s has reportedly lost more merchandise than any other in the nation. A local Victoria’s Secret lost $30,000 a month to theft, authorities say.
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