Lawmakers passed the California Retail Theft Reduction act on Monday's Assembly floor session. The package of bills would address serial thieves, cargo theft and allow law enforcement and district ...

Police in one Southern California city are laying down the law—literally—when it comes to retail theft. In a social media ... not a place where crime gets a pass,” they continued, “And ...

Less than year after Proposition 36 was passed by California voters in a landslide, local law enforcement says that it's giving them a leg up in cracking down on retail theft. The law, which went ...

Under Proposition 36, which passed with nearly 70 ... Across Southern California, law enforcement agencies have been ramping up retail theft operations, either establishing new task forces or ...