They aren’t stealing drugs. If they were running into the pharmacist’s section, that would probably motivate the PD. But the word is out, apparently, that everything is fair game.
Yeah, but this wasn’t that. Real rings are just that: more than one person, with lookouts and plans for creating distractions and blocking lines-of-sight. This act was that of “an independent contractor.”
Sure, I mean, I’ve no doubt he has criminal associates. A fence, or some “friends.” But now we’re outside the store. When you see surveillance camera footage of organized shoplifting rings, they are, uh, organized. It’s a magic show, with each conspirator playing his part in the disappearance act. No ring will ever use brute force. No (good) ring is ever seen committing theft. They want to be able to return to this store and rob it again.
