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Thirty-four states have come down hard in recent years on ORCs, adding offenses to their penal codes for members of these retail theft crews. California is the only West Coast state not to have an ORC statute. Prop. 47 required that non-violent crimes that were felonies before 2015 require misdemeanor sentencing, including shoplifting and grand theft where the value of the stolen goods didn’t exceed $950. The same dollar threshold applies to receiving stolen property, forgery, fraud and passing a bad check. Experts and psychologists who’ve studied the behavior by shoplifters report that most adults who steal started as teenagers. Because shoplifters are hard to spot, stores train their employees to greet customers and ask if they need any help. A friendly offer of assistance is a deterrent to shoplifters, according to loss prevention experts. U.S. retailers lose $13 billion each year to theft, which includes employee theft. In California, the number of shoplifting arrests has increased five of the last six years, according to the state attorney general’s office. • City Council from front page ence and perhaps positioning unmarked cars to block the street off. However, after the flurry of comments during the night’s second public communication, the Council decided to reconsider the matter since closing the street off was not previously presented as an option. Moving forward with a street closure (and then a special event permit like the 1200 block obtains) requires a signed petition of at least 55 percent of the block’s residents. Scot Nicol said he acquired 15 such signatures in just an hour and a half asking for the closure. Additional discussion ensued about other possible barricades including K Rails and sawhorses. The Council ultimately decided to ask for the majority petition from both the 1100 block and the adjacent 900 block of California (Mayor Suzanne Fuentes explained that blocking off that street would keep drivers from making U-turns). However, Garcia said the Police Department doesn’t have the personnel to manage two hard street closures—and that it would be a major challenge should a barrier or vehicle need to be moved on a moment’s notice. Councilmember Mike Dugan thought to just “stagger K Rail out there” to shut down the street for “99 percent of the people.” But Garcia opined that unless that K Rail is “fully manned,” drivers will just go around it. Trying to hone in on a possible direction, City Manager Greg Carpenter thought to pursue soft closures (where residents can move the barriers) except where the Police Chief feels hard closures can be done. Garcia said his department will make “every effort to put our cars and staff” there in some way, with hopefully a non-sworn (cadet or retired senior volunteer) member available. “It’s irresponsible to ignore the major risk that we have with all those people [who attend Candy Cane Lane],” Mayor Pro Tem Drew Boyles added. Tuesday’s meeting also featured the latest twist in the TopGolf saga. Although he was one of the three votes in early October to reject the project, Councilmember Don Brann said he would still like to see the venue come to El Segundo. He explained that after researching the issue and visiting a facility in Roseville, California, he didn’t feel TopGolf was a good fit next door to The Lakes and opined that the two entities would not “peacefully co-exist.” But Brann believes TopGolf can be successful in El Segundo if it goes somewhere else in town. He described the company as “well-run” and a “cash cow” with “great professional development” for employees and “great customer service”—and that it also provides “many, many jobs.” He suggested looking at potential places for TopGolf, with one possibility the Raytheon south campus development pegged for a future retail center. Brann noted that the aerospace giant promised to provide park space to the City as part of the development agreement. But he added that Raytheon hasn’t followed through on a commitment to be a better corporate citizen. “They deceived the Council,” he said, pointing to the company’s pledge to support veterans and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education—which Brann indicated hasn’t happened. He felt working with TopGolf would be “a good start in Raytheon becoming that good corporate citizen they promised to be.” Brann’s colleagues did not comment on the matter. Meanwhile, Mayor Fuentes brought forth an item hoping to rein in the upcoming Request For Proposal (RFP) for The Lakes to limit it to just golf uses—arguing that the expense to look at converting the area to fields, as an example, would be costprohibitive. While the Council majority at the prior meeting asked staff to expedite the RFP timeline and have a draft ready as early as late January, Boyles didn’t want to rush See City Council, page 12
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