$1 million in cash in a downtown L.A. bodega: Inside the crackdown on retail theft ‘fences’ Pedestrians walk past Big Apple in Los Angeles last week.

A proposed California bill intended to crack down on rising retail robberies is now on pause due to a lack of support. Incidents in which thieves are caught on video walking into retail stores ...

Prop. 47, passed in 2014, has been fingered for much of the upswing in retail-related crime over more than a decade, as it set the felony threshold for most types of retail theft at $950 or more ...

The retail theft package was crafted in part to fend off Proposition 36, a tough-on-crime ballot measure that, if it passes, will impose automatic sentence enhancements for repeat retail thefts ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Retail theft drew major headlines across California last year, as a statewide voter initiative targeting the issue took center stage. That initiative — Proposition 36 — ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With smash-and-grab robberies and other retail theft crimes escalating in California, the state is focusing efforts to combat the crimes. "To combat organized crime in ...