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- From: fino@point.cs.uwm.edu (Alexander Finogenov)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Stores can't "detain" shoplifters
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:22:34 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <C1BtDM.GKy@news2.cis.umn.edu> konstan@saturn.cs.umn.edu (Joe Konstan) writes:
- :
- : I certainly agree that a store would have a high liability risk by
- : detaining someone. I'd also guess it would cost them more money to
- : establish probable cause in court (let alone the rest of the suit)
- : than to follow this policy. And, they would be opening themselves up
- : to criminal proceedings if their probable cause wasn't sufficient.
- :
- Why it should cost a lot of money to prove something which has been recorded
- on the video tape? I think most of stores have their security cameras all
- over their place.
-
- I also once witnessed (more than 5 years ago) as a couple of store's
- employees chased a thief (I assume so because I was riding in the bus at that
- moment) to the street, pushed him to the ground in the middle of the traffic,
- pulled a package from his hands, and after that they took him back to the mall.
- They were not dressed as policemen or security.
-