Today’s topic is ORC and it’s costing you money even if you know not what it is.
It sounds like Ork, the mythical planet home of Mork from the Mork And Mindy television series starring comic Robin Williams, but there is nothing funny about ORC.
ORC also might sound like the noise your dog makes when upchucking table scraps and it is about as revolting.
ORC is shorthand for Organized Retail Crime, a phenomenon catalyzed by defund-the-police, don’t prosecute-criminals types who dominate the political left.
In California, where thieves can steal merchandise without fear of legal action as long as they keep the total under $950, surprise, there is much organized retail crime.
In Portland, Oregon, where Black Lives Matter types were allowed to burn public buildings while being free to wall off parts of the city for their compounds, stores are closing because they cannot sell enough merchandise to offset the loss from thefts.
Even national retailer Target has come forward with statistical evidence of the crime spree, noting in a recent quarterly report that it has lost approximately $400 million in the past year to shoplifting. Tellingly, that’s up 50 percent from the previous year and the majority of it is being characterized as organized retail crime.
Repeat, retail theft up 50 percent in a year at Target.
No wonder a report on this posted to zerohedge.com spoke of the thin veneer of civility being stripped from society.
Chicago, “benefiting” from easy-on-criminals legislation in Illinois, is experiencing more than 100 car thefts a day, up from an average of 35 or so in the first half of the year. Shootings also continue at a great rate.
It’s as clear as the blank stare on Clueless Joe’s face that coddling criminals emboldens them and makes life less safe for the rest of us.
And yet the moronic electorate continues to vote for Democrats as long as they promise stimulus handouts and relief from having to live up to debt obligations, fully support killing babies, legalize weed, pump oil from the strategic petroleum reserve trying to suppress gasoline prices, and continue to praise aberrant sexual behavior.
You, dear reader, pay for all this. Speaking specifically about ORC, you pay more for each and every item you buy in order for the stores to offset all the free merchandise stolen with a wink and a nod of approval from soft-on-crime Democrats.
As long as Democrats keep getting elected to positions of power, these trends will continue and, more to the point, will accelerate to even worse levels.
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