I can't blame police completely for the abandonment of their job - there's been a lot of stupid court decisions which has caused hands to be tied in a lot of cases.
To be clear, these types of robberies have been going on for a very long time, mostly was centered in the illegal alien community, and luckily was usually limited to a half dozen participants. Stores would get robbed blind, but not picked clean. Now though, these types of robberies can ruin a business.
Oh, excuse me, alleged shoplifting. Gotta go by what they'll put on the cold case as they toss it into the circular file.
And yet, the illegal alien / black community organizers bitch and moan when businesses large and small refuse to open stores in their inner city “communities.”
Gee, I wonder why these businesses don’t want to invest in these “communities?”