In Case You Missed It, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Wes Duncan, Sparks City Attorney, and local Home Depot employees to highlight local and federal efforts to crack down on retail crime. She discussed bipartisan legislation she’s leading to deliver more funding to local law enforcement and her Combating Organized Retail Crime Act to go after large-scale criminal schemes driving an uptick in organized retail crime nationally.
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KTVN (Broadcast)
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and the Sparks City Attorney Wes Duncan are working together to crack down on retail theft.
To a room full of home depot employees, Cortez Masto discussed her efforts on the federal level like securing funding and passing legislation. And Duncan discussed the work being done in the city of sparks. The City of Sparks has been using the ‘Back Our Businesses’ campaign to combat theft.
Cortez Masto: “Law enforcement, and your DA, your local city leaders, along with the retailers, are doing everything they can to keep your community safe.”
KOLO (Broadcast)
Catherine Cortez Masto seeing the impact of retail theft firsthand today in Spanish Springs. She toured and talked to employees at the Home Depot on Galleria Parkway. The event helped to bring awareness to retail theft, as well as the Sparks City Attorney’s program ‘Back Our Businesses.’ Retail theft is up 50- percent nationwide.
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Cortez Masto says she has a bipartisan bill in Washington which hopes to address the problem. It would combine various misdemeanor charges a defendant faces for stealing.
KRNV (Broadcast)
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Sparks City Attorney Wes Duncan talking about the ‘Back Our Businesses’ initiative with employees from Home Depot yesterday. The conversation highlighted efforts on a federal level to deliver more funding to local law enforcement and pass legislation to crack down on large scale criminal schemes
Cortez Masto: “And what it is at the end of the day is this organized retail group, usually affiliated with some sort of transnational group, but an organized group that is literally coming in and taking these goods off the shelf and then turning around and then selling them online to make money. That’s what is going on here.”
Organized retail crime costs retailers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. The Combatting Organized Retail Crime Act looks to tackle evolving trends by establishing a new task force within the Department of Homeland Security.
Univision Reno (Broadcast)
In several stores products are locked up to prevent theft, especially items in high demand such as electronics, designer clothing, beauty products, and medications. Organized retail crime targets these products, forcing some stores in high-crime areas to close due to high cost losses. […]
Given the increase in crime, a legislative effort is underway to provide potential funding to local law enforcement agencies to combat shoplifting and prosecute offenders.
According to the senator, the legislation is expected to have a good chance of being approved. The goal is to achieve a vote in Congress.
KUNR (Broadcast)
At a Home Depot on Tuesday, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Sparks City Attorney West Duncan discussed efforts to combat retail crime. Duncan discussed Sparks City’s ‘Back Our Businesses’ initiative to combat retail theft, while Cortez Masto highlighted efforts at the federal level to provide add more resources to local law enforcement.
Cortez Masto recently introduced legislation to crack down on large-scale criminal schemes. The legislation seeks to create new tools to address evolving trends in retail theft. It also establishes a new task force within the Department of Homeland Security to better coordinate responses between organizations to protect at retailers and workers nationwide.
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