Delaware's Retail Crime Prevention Task Force met to review draft findings and recommendations on organized retail crime, working through proposed language changes page by page. No final votes were taken; the session was a working meeting with revised language to be circulated before one or two additional anticipated meetings.
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Julie argued that the position is funded by retailers through a dedicated tax generating over half a million dollars but the person 'is asked to prosecute any crime' and retail is not their sole focus, while Abby (DOJ) stated 'it is the primary job of the individual who does it' but acknowledged the person is assigned other matters including homicides and stated 'I don't think there will ever be a scenario where the only thing a person will do is retail theft.' Mike Q sided with Julie, stating 'we're just not getting what we're paying for.'
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“Retailers pay for a dedicated retail prosecutor with their business franchise taxes every year. And we do know that that person, because that sits at the doj because of a lack of resources for the doj, that person is asked to prosecute any crime. And they do have a focus on retail crime, but it is not their sole focus. And so I'm just asking that that person that's funded to do that job just do that job.”
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Sign in to subscribeNow your mics are hot. Just so much mutual operation. That's good. Do they have that? Yeah, there's just. You could. Too much. He. He also. Oh, he does? Yeah. Cool. Okay. Hey, everybody. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Hello. And to everyone join online. We are going to just jump right into. Actually not on the agenda was meeting minute approvals. I can't remember if this went out or not. I don't recall. So we'll do that next time, I think. Did they go out? No. Okay, cool. No worries. Okay, so we'll do meeting minute approvals for last meeting and this meeting at the next meeting, which not to jump to the end of the conclusion. At the end of the conclusion. That's wonderful. We might have one or might have two additional meetings. We're going to finalize our findings, recommendations, finalize the report, and the question is whether it takes one more meeting beyond today or two more meetings beyond today to do that. So that's the general overview of where we're at. I want to thank the amazing Wyatt Patterson for circulating materials ahead of meeting for people to review so we can dive right into it.…
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