Organized shoplifting is a $100-billion problem. Here's why we're all screwed

Organized shoplifting is a $100-billion problem that's getting worse and we are all stuck with it. Theft is hurting businesses big and small, costing jobs and even lives.

Until recently, CEOs have been reluctant to even admit that rampant theft in their stores has been a problem because they don’t want to appear political and place the blame where it belongs — with rogue prosecutors and others who call for defunding the police.   Charles "Cully" Stimson is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former prosecutor and co-author of "Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities."

And a lawless society is bad for business. Big companies, from Whole Foods, Walmart and Walgreens to Nordstrom, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lululemon and more have all suffered. Mom-and-pop businesses have suffered too.