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The U.S. Crime Surge
The Retail Impact

Seattle's Good News Bad News
Judges Didn't Get The Message

March 4, 2022: The Good News

New Mayor Says He's Going to Clean Up Seattle
200 Arrests in first nine weeks with 3 ORC Arrests

Seattle Mayor Harrell says he ‘inherited a mess,’ will solve crime issues by putting arrests first, social services second
In February, Harrell announced he would direct the Seattle Police Department to focus their efforts on areas of town with concentrated criminal activity. Friday, he and law enforcement partners from the region introduced “Operation New Day” to do exactly that.

To create new systems, Harrell says he’s working with SPD Interim Chief Adrian Diaz, Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice.

The first spot to get the New Day treatment was the area around 12th Avenue and South Jackson Street in Little Saigon, where an increased police effort resulted in 80 felony arrests between January 1 and March 3, including seven felony gun violations, 25 commercial burglaries, 23 felony narcotic investigations or arrests,19 felony warrant arrests, three felony organized retail theft arrests and one felony assault.

SPD also touted about 120 misdemeanor arrests in the area over the same time frame, as well as nine drug overdoses treated by officers, as a result of the operation.

Diaz said SPD will continue to monitor 12th and Jackson and work to combat crime displacement, noting that when they hone in on a specific area, the remaining criminal activity “is going to go somewhere.” seattletimes.com

March 19, 2022: The Bad News

Media: "Operation New Day" More Like "Operation Same Old Revolving Door"
Sounds Like Catch-&-Release Didn't Go Away

Hard or soft on crime? Seattle can’t make up its mind
Judges aren't supporting the police or the Mayor

Recently, local officials have launched a slew of crime-fighting efforts that brought desperately-needed relief to some beleaguered spots around town, including Little Saigon and Third and Pine downtown.

The roster of agencies involved has been wide-ranging, from the city on up to the feds. And the new campaigns have come with branding such as “Operation New Day” — suggesting that this time really is going to be different in Seattle.

That said, a review of the arrests and, more importantly, the judicial decisions made to date suggests we may already be tilting back more toward “Operation Same Old Revolving Door.”

Of 16 people arrested for suspected felonies in Little Saigon as part of Operation New Day, it turns out only two stayed in King County Jail for more than a day or two. Three are now in federal detention, which I’ll get to in a minute. But most were either released immediately by judges or asked to post very low bail, which they did.

This includes some offenders who are right in the intersection of Seattle’s two street plagues — synthetic drugs and guns.

Four men were released back onto Seattle streets with either no or low bail despite being repeat offenders accused of illegally carrying guns and dealing fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for killing 388 people in King County last year. The allegations are serious enough that three of them later were rearrested and charged in federal court.

EN: The writer goes on to write about how the four released had lengthy criminal records and were rearrested. One suspect's story the writer uses to support his 'revolving door case study' is like all the other horrifying cases of catch-and-release as the judicial branch is just totally disconnected with law enforcement, the elected officials, and the new mayor's efforts to make an impact on downtown crime. With the writer's last statements being:

Why are these armed suspects, some with a history of violence, passing through the local court system like water through a sieve?

Yet the revolving door there seems to be spinning as rapidly as ever. seattletimes.com

Dems Agreed They Went Too Far - There's a First
Wash. governor signs rollback of police reform bill

The move clarifies use-of-force protocols after police officials said the sweeping reforms hindered crime response

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill Thursday rolling back part of the state’s sweeping police reform legislation from last year after law enforcement and key Democratic lawmakers agreed the original bill went too far.

The measure, House Bill 2037, makes clear police can use force to stop people from fleeing temporary investigative detentions, known as Terry stops. Officers said restrictions passed by lawmakers in 2021 had left them unable to do so, meaning potential suspects could simply leave.

Under the bill, police still must use reasonable care, including appropriate de-escalation techniques, and they may not use force during Terry stops when the people being detained are compliant. Inslee said it “upholds the principle of police accountability, de-escalation and the protection of individual liberties."

Police said the measure hindered their response to crime: Often when officers show up at a scene, they need to detain people to figure out if they were involved in a crime. But under House Bill 1310, they couldn't use force to detain them unless they already had probable cause to arrest them, they said. police1.com

Warning: Pictures May Be Disturbing
Russia airstrike kills 8 at Kyiv mall
A Ukrainian chemical plant in Sumy was hit just hours after at least eight died when a shopping center was demolished in the capital, Kyiv. and as many as 80 foreign and Ukrainian troops were killed in a cruise missile strike on a military training center in Rivne, officials said.

The Kremlin has also repeatedly denied attacking civilians during its so-called “special military operation,” yet shocking footage showed a 10-story shopping center in Kyiv completely destroyed overnight.
 

	Dead bodies lie on the ground at the site of a bombing at a shopping center in front of an H&M store, March 21, 2022.
	Destroyed cars at the site of a shopping center after it was hit in a military strike.
	Firefighters are seen inside the Retroville shopping mall. An Agence France-Presse reporter saw at least six bodies laid out in front of the mall.

Dramatic surveillance footage shows a fireball erupting from the Retroville shopping center in the capital’s Podil district late Sunday, turning the sky amber from the flames for hours.

By sunrise, the 10-story mall was a complete shell as the whole area around it was completely bombed out and covered in debris. nypost.com

NYC thieves captured on video taking 400 bulletproof vests meant for Ukraine
Surveillance video shows hoodie-wearing thieves brazenly steal bulletproof vests meant for Ukraine, loading cardboard boxes into vans and driving off. Another van pulled up about an hour later to ferry away more boxes.

Two vans — one white and one black — pull up to the East Village building that houses the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, according to the video, shot last Tuesday and obtained by The Post.

The vests had been stored in a building hallway. The nonprofit organizations are collecting donations to aid the war effort in Ukraine. The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office had donated used vests to help the Ukrainian groups but it wasn’t clear whether those were the vests taken. nypost.com

US: 81.4M Cases - 997.9K Dead - 63M Recovered
Worldwide: 471.1M Cases - 6.1M Dead - 407.4M Recovered

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Private Industry Security Guard Deaths: 354  
Law Enforcement Officer Deaths: 723
*Red indicates change in total deaths

Officials wary of new COVID-19 surge as country relaxes
A new surge in COVID-19 infections in Europe has public health experts concerned the U.S. is not prepared to respond to a similar wave.

Much of the country has lifted the few remaining precautions after a sharp decline in cases. U.S. infections are at an eight-month low, but administration officials and health experts are keeping wary eyes on BA.2, the subvariant of omicron fueling the overseas spike.

Europe has consistently been a window into America's future throughout the pandemic. A widespread outbreak overseas is usually followed by one in the U.S. several weeks later. thehill.com

Easy Does It On Dropping Masks - Especially If We See Reversal
As Offices Open and Mask Mandates Drop, Some Anxieties Set In
Using local guidelines, many companies are loosening Covid safety rules, leaving workers to navigate masking and social distancing on their own.

Employers are embracing a workplace atmosphere reminiscent of prepandemic times — elevators jammed, snack tables brimming, face coverings optional — even as a new subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus spurs concerns about health and safety. Across the country, office occupancy has hit a pandemic high, 40 percent, reached just once before in early December, at the same time that indoor mask mandates drop.

After several false starts in calling workers back, company leaders now seem eager to press forward. A flurry of return-to-office plans have rolled out in recent weeks. Many of those companies followed state and local governments in easing Covid-19 restrictions, arguing that ending mask mandates could make workplaces more pleasant. But some workers, especially those with compromised immunity or unvaccinated children, feel uncomfortable with the rush back to open floor plans.

“Masks have created a real psychological barrier to getting back to office culture,” said Kathryn Wylde, head of the Partnership for New York City, a business group. “As long as things are going in a positive direction with Covid, I think the relaxation of mandates will work for the vast majority of people. As soon as we see a reversal, I think we’ve got trouble.”

As employees come back, they’re facing a patchwork of Covid safety protocols. Just one-quarter of U.S. workers are covered by vaccine mandates in the workplace, according to Gallup data from last month. nytimes.com

Health experts predict uptick in U.S. Covid cases due to new BA.2 variant

China Locks Down Millions More As Covid Spreads

Facial Recognition Technology Starting to be Accepted by the Public - Big Swing

46% Say Finding Criminals With FRT is Good For Society
NYC's 15,000 CCTV's With FRT Prevalent in Areas of Blacks & Hispanics

Police in NYC deploy more facial recognition, with public support in US
A new survey by Pew Research shows 46 percent of U.S. adults think the “widespread use of facial recognition technology by police to monitor crowds and look for people who may have committed a crime” is a good idea for society. Twenty-seven percent think this would be bad, and 27 percent are unsure, of more than ten thousand surveyed.

This comes as the NYPD brings back its 400-strong Neighborhood Safety Teams to tackle gun crime, this time with uniforms and facial recognition-enabled body cams.

Ambivalence towards AI overall, higher safety standards required

The Pew Research study conducted in November 2021 presented respondents with six vignettes involving the use of AI or human enhancements such as brain implants or exoskeletons. For facial recognition, this was law enforcement’s use of the technology.

Contrary to frequent suggestions of bias in police use of facial recognition, 34 percent think the widespread use of facial recognition by police would make policing fairer compared to 40 percent thinking that it would not make much difference, and 25 percent that it would make policing less fair.

The results show that 57 percent oppose the idea of social media sites using facial recognition to automatically identify people in photos (EN: public still opposes social media pic usage) compared to 19 percent in favor, and more oppose than favor the idea that companies might use facial recognition to automatically track the attendance of their employees, at 48 versus 30 percent, notes the results report.

There is hope for improvements in acceptability of facial recognition use by the police. If officers were trained in how the technology can make errors in identifying people before they use it, 64 percent of respondents believed this would make the technology more acceptable. Eleven percent thought it would make it less acceptable and 23 percent expect no change.

New York’s controversial and disproportionately lethal Neighborhood Safety Teams have been relaunched by the city’s mayor, Eric Adams. Formerly plainclothed, the units will have a new uniform and body-worn cameras equipped with facial recognition, reports Governing. Their cars will be unmarked.

The NYPD Neighborhood Safety Teams members will all wear cameras and are instructed to turn them on anytime they are interacting with civilians. Another tool is intended to help them identity who may be carrying guns. They also must complete seven days of training which covers community interaction, car stops, use of force and the constitution. biometricupdate.com

Public Not Paying Attention to Surveillance News - "Outrage Prioritization"
Major government surveillance revelations fail to make a big splash
Recent revelations about government spying have failed to make a major splash in Congress, the media or public discourse.

Over the past several months, lawmakers and reporters have revealed that the country’s intelligence agencies have been using broad executive authority and taking advantage of a loophole in the Fourth Amendment to obtain much more data than was previously known.

Recent disclosures have gotten less attention from Congress. No hearings have been held focused on the possible abuses of EO 12333. The bill most directly addressing them, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, has not gotten a glimpse in committee.

Other factors that may contribute to surveillance stories failing to make a big splash in media and with the public.

One is “Outrage Prioritization”. “Attention can be a finite resource,” Goitein told The Hill. "There’s a lot going on right now. It's hard to break through.”

“Unless there is a major privacy meltdown,” Wyden noted, “you’re dealing with the fact that every night on the news there’s a war going on that Americans are clearly concerned about.”

Another factor is that many Americans may now assume that their privacy is already shot.

Beyond knowledge of government surveillance, the public has become used to handing over private information to companies for access to platforms.

The difficulty linking surveillance policies to impacts on people’s day-to-day lives may also explain why the public is less interested in government spying programs than climate change or higher gas prices. thehill.com

Walmart requiring RFID tagging, partners with Auburn University

Walmart is enlisting the Auburn University RFID Lab in its inventory control efforts.

RFID Journal has reported that Walmart is already requiring apparel vendors to utilize RFID tags; and is mandating that suppliers of home goods, and some hardlines, entertainment and toy products become RFID-compliant by Sep. 2, 2022.

Walmart recently partnered with the lab and is already in the process of distributing training videos to most of its product vendors. It includes a request that all merchandise tagging first be approved by Auburn experts before going to market.

Previously, retailers including Amazon and Target have partnered with the Auburn University RFID Lab.

RFID – has its time come?

According to “RFID-Powered Solutions: More Attainable Than Ever,” a study from Cambridge Retail Advisors sponsored by Sensormatic by Johnson Controls, retail has reached an inflection point for RFID. Cambridge Retail Advisors (CRA) suggests that the average cost of labor at retail companies and the increasing value attached to inventory visibility and availability has created a new justification for retail RFID implementations. chainstoreage.com

Government has seized $5 million in money and property, seeks forfeiture
Apple lost $10 million to long-time Buyer who took kickbacks, stole parts, diverted cash, feds allege
A man who worked at Apple for a decade defrauded the company out of more than $10 million by taking kickbacks, stealing equipment and diverting money, federal authorities alleged Friday.

Dhirendra Prasad, 52, is charged with five crimes related to allegedly defrauding the Cupertino technology giant, laundering the proceeds and evading taxes, prosecutors and the Internal Revenue Service said.

The San Joaquin County man worked for Apple from 2008 to 2018, mostly as a buyer in the firm’s “Global Service Supply Chain,” authorities said. Responsible for purchasing parts and services from vendors, Prasad allegedly “exploited his position by engaging in multiple different schemes to defraud Apple, including taking kickbacks, stealing parts, and causing Apple to pay for items and services it never received.”

A court has allowed the federal government to seize $5 million in money and property from Prasad, and the government is seeking to keep those assets as proceeds of crime.

Two other California men who owned companies that sold to Apple and conspired with Prasad charged in separate federal cases “and they have both admitted their involvement,”

Prasad first court appearance in U.S. District Court in San Jose Thursday. The alleged offenses of fraud, money laundering and tax evasion each carry maximum sentences of five to 20 years. mercurynews.com

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CEO Karen Lynch tells staff she will change process after investigation into employee complaints against a regional manager

Ms. Lynch, who took over as CEO a year ago, in December became aware of complaints made by at least two female employees alleging that a New Jersey-based regional store manager had either harassed or inappropriately touched them at work, the people said.

Ms. Lynch oversaw an investigation, carried out by a professional investigator, that culminated in January in the dismissal of the manager, who oversaw hundreds of stores, and the departure of senior executives who supervised him, these people said. The probe and leadership exits haven’t previously been disclosed.

On Friday, she outlined the events to some 450 senior leaders on a call, and laid out plans to create an office designed to give employees a confidential channel to navigate what Ms. Lynch described as challenging situations, some of the people said.

In a memo sent to staff, Ms. Lynch said the allegations were substantiated, and she immediately terminated the regional manager. “Our investigation also revealed that other employees failed in their duty to treat such allegations with the seriousness we expect, and they are no longer with the company,” she wrote.

One executive who supervised the regional manager and a human-resources executive were dismissed, while a third executive left the company during the investigation, the people said. wsj.com

Update: Walmart distribution center ablaze for nearly 48 hours
A 1.2 million-square-foot Walmart distribution center in Plainfield, Indiana, about 5 miles from Indianapolis International Airport, caught fire Wednesday a little before noon, sending out massive plumes that were visible from space.

With the fire still alive as of 10:30 a.m. EST on Friday, the facility has now been ablaze for nearly 50 hours. Around 1,000 employees were inside a Walmart Fulfillment Center in Plainfield, near Indianapolis, Wednesday afternoon when a fire broke out. About 350 firefighters and 30 fire agencies, as well as other community partners.

Federal investigators arrived on Friday to begin on-scene investigation into the cause of the fire.

Smoke from the Plainfield Walmart fulfillment center fire could be seen on satellite imagery as the fire grew, according to the National Weather Service. indystar.com

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