Subject: Pay us or we’ll call the cops: Many U.S. stores giving shoplifters choice of punishment Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:18 pm
Over the past four years, about 20,000 people around the country have faced versions of this dilemma and chosen to pay up instead of taking their chances with the criminal justice system. Collecting their money and administering the course is a Utah-based outfit called Corrective Education Company (CEC), which was started by a pair of Harvard Business School graduates in 2010.
According to Darrell Huntsman, CEC’s co-founder and CEO, the company serves four purposes: It saves retailers time that they would have to spend dealing with the police; it frees up law enforcement resources that could be spent on higher priority cases; it reduces the likelihood that a shoplifter will come back to the store to steal again; and it gives second chances to offenders who would otherwise be saddled with a criminal record for life.
CEC operates in most major American cities, said Huntsman, including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, and Atlanta. They work with approximately 20 different retailers, including grocery stores, big-box discount stores, clothing stores, and pharmacies. According to the company’s VP for account management, E.J. Caffaro, retail chains that have used the company’s services include Bloomingdale’s, Burlington Coat Factory, and the shoe store DSW; CEC also contracts with third-party security firms that provide loss prevention services in regional branches of Whole Foods and H&M. Retailers can collect a cut of CEC’s $320 fee each time they present an offender with the option of signing up for the program — a form of restitution, said Caffaro, which usually ends up being around $40 per case. CEC doesn’t charge retailers for their services, which the company refers to on its website as being “completely offender funded.”
There’s no judicial oversight, there are no constitutional protections, there’s no due process
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Subject: Re: Pay us or we’ll call the cops: Many U.S. stores giving shoplifters choice of punishment Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:06 am
Another lieyer twisting reality... In other words, pressuring people into giving up their rights in exchange for $320.
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Pay us or we’ll call the cops: Many U.S. stores giving shoplifters choice of punishment
Subject: Pay us or we’ll call the cops: Many U.S. stores giving shoplifters choice of punishment 
Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:18 pm
