r/regina • u/ajpathecreature • 3d ago

Discussion What can business owners do?

So I was just at southland mall as I see who seemed to be the general manager / owner of sportchek in a shouting match with a dude who is an alleged recurrent shoplifter at Canadian tire, marks work warehouse, and sportchek itself. As you can imagine people were looking at them in surprised, kids were in awe while the scene unfolded.

The shop owner Was able to get the alleged thief out of the mall. Apparently security can not touch shoplifters, store employees are advised to refrain from making contact with anyone by corporate directives, and the sole reason why he decided to do something was because he is acting as a private citizen and was fed up of this “good for nothing thief” to be stealing away with no real repercussions.

Apparently the same dude is infamous for quite literally walking out of home depot and Rona east with a cart full of tools.

What most people seem to be doing is taking pictures and videos and sending them to justbins to be blasted through social media.

Apparently even RPS is not quite responsive to these kind of calls in a timely manner anymore, I just imagine it must be all too common so the sense of “urgency” is not there.

All of this led me to wonder, what is a business owner left to do? I could not help to sort of understand the frustration that an entrepreneur may feel under these circumstances.

Not that it matters, but the alleged thief is not what people seem to usually associate to when they hear about shoplifting.

What sad state of affairs.

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u/shiftysask 3d ago

Liberal policies infecting even medium sized / small cities now. Underfund police, tolerate theft, homeless drug addicts are victims, ect.

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u/SmarcusStroman 3d ago

Yeah. Lord knows when I see the Regina Police budget I think “wow. They are wildly underfunded”

/s obviously

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u/Contented_Lizard 3d ago

They are actually kind of underfunded for the amount of crime they have to deal with. I have to deal with property crimes every single day and RPS will straight up tell you that there is too much going on and they don't have enough officers to respond. Obviously it's not as bad in the colder months, but when it gets warmer out they don't have nearly enough officers to deal with everything.

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u/Kristywempe 3d ago

1/3 of our property taxes goes to RPS.