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More highlights from this week's virtual NRF PROTECT event

It’s time to talk about racial equity

LP experts hold a candid conversation about fighting for change

Beyond the global pandemic this year, civil rights issues have been brought to the forefront and are reshaping the country. During NRF PROTECT ALL ACCESS this week, Debbie Maples, who leads loss prevention at Williams-Sonoma, and Keith White, global chief security and safety officer for Salesforce, spoke of their shock and disappointment with the events of the past few months, including the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

Protests and demonstrations around the country have created a need and urgency for conversations about racial equity and justice. “I feel like I’ve never had more urgency and sense of responsibility to speak out and champion diversity and inclusion [and] equity in the workforce,” Maples said.

While these types of conversations can be difficult, both White and Maples emphasized their need. White mentioned that, while people might have silently believed in racial justice and felt they were doing their part to encourage diversity, they are now speaking out and actively fighting for change.

This is the moment to lean in, they said: CEOs and team members alike must promote inclusion and equity, both within and outside of an organization. Maples encouraged driving awareness of a commitment to racial justice, citing research that 61 percent of shoppers prefer organizations with a solid position on diversity and inclusion. Read More Here

Loss prevention pros talk managing operations in the face of crisis
A panel session at NRF Protect this week on Managing Store Operations in the Face of Crisis and Critical Incidents included several loss prevention professionals discussing their organization's response to COVID-19, to social unrest, and to potential election impact on their operations.

Chris Nelson, VP Global Loss Prevention at Gap Inc. discussed his departments role in being creative with COVID-19 response and also using the lessons they have learned thus far into 2020 to get them through the fall. Nelson said that the loss prevention department at Gap is already doing tabletop exercises to continue to deal with future critical incidents. He anticipates impact from more social unrest and from the presidential election in November and they are poised to act, he says.

"Don't wait to get ready. It could happen now," Nelson says in response to a nugget of advice he has for other professionals. At one point during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Nelson talked about how his organization had difficulty sourcing some supplies such as face shields. His response? Over a long weekend, the loss prevention team went out individually and sourced 8,000 face shields for employees themselves. Being creative during these times and adapting to new challenges, according to Nelson, is something that loss prevention professionals have been known for and must continue during these times.

In addition, David Johnston, Sr. Director, Loss Prevention & Corporate Security/Dunkin' Brands Inc., said that his advice to loss prevention teams is to make sure their value is known across the entire organization. He says, that during this time in particular, it's an opportunity for loss prevention professionals and departments to demonstrate their value to the organization and particularly to the C-suite, to garner that seat at the table, ultimately allowing security professionals to build those necessary initiatives to keep employees and the organization safe and secure. Read More Here

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Mark Your Calendars: NRF PROTECT 2021 will take place June 14-16, 2021 in Grapevine, Texas. Registration will open shortly after the digital event.

Continuing the Topic From NRF Protect & Today's Top Article
NRF Protect's Session 'The Quest for Racial Justice'
Which Debbie Maples, VP, Global LP Williams-Sonoma, and Keith White, Global Chief Security and Safety Officer Salesforce, just did an incredibly exceptional and passionate job with. Truly one of the highlights of the show and so timely that it should be mandatory watching for the entire industry once it is released.

WHARTON EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Three Steps for Creating a More Equitable Workplace
Wharton’s Stephanie Creary speaks with Kwasi Mitchell from Deloitte Consulting LLP about how company leaders and employees can contribute to diversity initiatives.

The impassioned protests for racial justice that have erupted across the U.S. in recent months have been an ardent call to action for many business leaders, pushing them to move quickly on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts within their organizations. But one expert warns that they shouldn’t rush through the necessary steps.

Creating a more tolerant and just workplace takes time, said Kwasi Mitchell, Principal and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lead at Deloitte Consulting, LLP.

Mitchell, who heads an initiative to advance more female, minority, veteran and transgender practitioners at Deloitte, offered his guidance during a segment of Leading Diversity at Work, a Knowledge@Wharton podcast series hosted by Wharton management professor Stephanie Creary, an identity and diversity scholar. upenn.edu

Protests & Violence

Breonna Taylor Decision Sparks More Protests as Leaders Urge Calm

Nationwide Protests and Arrests Continue for Second Night
Louisville, Ky., police faced off with protesters for a second night Thursday, as political leaders pleaded for calm. Protesters gathered at a Unitarian church in downtown Louisville, in a standoff with police after a citywide curfew. Police declared an unlawful assembly after protesters broke windows in Kentucky’s most populous-city, according to the department’s Twitter feed.

Marchers took to the streets for a second night in New York, Los Angeles and other cities in response to the announcement Wednesday that a grand jury indicted one police officer involved in Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting. The charges were related to endangering Ms. Taylor’s neighbors, not her death - a decision civil-rights activists considered woefully inadequate.

Police arrested 127 people over Wednesday night and Thursday morning and identified 16 incidents of looting, interim Police Chief Robert Schroeder said at a news conference Thursday.

On Thursday night police made several arrests, including state representative Attica Scott, a Democrat who has called for justice for Taylor. “At least 24 people were arrested throughout the evening for charges including unlawful assembly, failure to disperse and riot in the first degree,” the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) said in a statement. theguardian.com wsj.com

Louisville, KY: LMPD investigating 16 reported looting incidents
Louisville Metro Police say they are investigating 16 different incidents of reported looting stemming from Wednesday night. "These include Broadway, Preston, Outer Loop and Poplar Level Road." Some of the disclosed locations where looting took place include one-T-Mobile, two Gamestop, and two Walgreens stores. whas11.com

Pro-Trump activists plotted violence ahead of Portland rallies
Leaked chat logs show Portland-area pro-Trump activists planning and training for violence, sourcing arms and ammunition and even suggesting political assassinations ahead of a series of contentious rallies in the Oregon city, including one scheduled for this weekend. The chats on the GroupMe app, shared with the Guardian by the antifascist group Eugene Antifa, show conversations between Oregon members of the Patriots Coalition growing more extreme as they discuss armed confrontations with leftwing Portland activists, and consume a steady diet of online disinformation about protests and wildfires. theguardian.com

Los Angeles: Vehicle plows through protesters in Hollywood, hitting at least one person

Orange County, CA: Video shows sheriff’s deputies fatally shooting Black man, sparking protests

Portland: Police declare unlawful assembly outside police union building, make 14 arrests

Seattle: Cop rolls bike over protester’s head during Breonna Taylor demonstration

Minneapolis: Protesters, police face off downtown; no arrests

Governors in these states deploy National Guard in response to protests:
- Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri

AP & NORC @University of Chicago: New Poll
Growing Disapproval of Protests Against Police
Compared to June, fewer Americans think that deadly force is more commonly used against a Black person than a white person or that police who cause harm need greater consequences.

A new survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that the major shifts in opinions on race relations observed shortly after the killing of George Floyd, have receded over the past several months. However, large gaps remain in the views of Black and white Americans, in the survey which was conducted Sept. 11-14, before Wednesday’s announcement in Louisville.

The poll finds that 44% of Americans disapprove of protests in response to police violence against Black Americans, while 39% approve. In June, 54% approved.

Views of the protests differ by party identification with 70% of Democrats approving and 75% of Republicans disapproving. This partisan difference emerges even among white Americans: 72% of white Democrats approve of the protests while just 9% of white Republicans agree. Read the full poll

Defunding Police 'Foundations' Movement
Taking the defunding movement another step

Politico 9/18/20: New racial justice target : Defund the police foundations

Racial justice advocates are calling on corporations to sever their relationships with police foundations

Wall Street banks and other big corporations are under pressure to cut ties with nonprofit police foundations, which racial justice activists say are increasingly funding law enforcement practices that fuel violence against Black people.

Color of Change, an online racial justice group with 7 million members, is calling on the companies to sever their relationships with the foundations, which for some police departments have become a resource for surveillance technology, SWAT team guns, armor, drones and K-9 dogs. Critics say the gifts by the nonprofits to police departments escape public accountability.

The conflict underscores the perils of corporations taking public stands on social issues. Many of the companies have also pledged this year to fight racial inequality following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May, which sparked demonstrations nationwide and a movement to "Defund the Police." But they also have deep ties to law enforcement. Police foundations say much of the work they are doing is aimed at supporting their communities rather than equipping local police.

"Our end goal is to have an intervention on the funneling of private money into police forces and into policing," said Scott Roberts, senior director of criminal justice campaigns at Color of Change. "If the police foundations existed to raise money for the families of fallen police officers, we wouldn't say we need to abolish police foundations. It's the specific type of work that they're doing that we object to."

Some corporations are beginning to reconsider the support. Wells Fargo says it has paused donations, while other companies including Goldman Sachs have agreed to hold discussions with activists.

The companies facing heat from advocates have long records of supporting police foundations across the country, according to a report from the watchdog group LittleSis, public filings and information available on the foundation websites. politico.com

Editor's Note: Supporting your local police may have consequences. Regretfully reporting, Gus Downing

Texas & Florida Take a Stance
Texas Gov. Abbott Proposes Strict New Protesting Penalties,
Following Florida’s Lead
Hitting a police officer with a water bottle would come with a minimum six-month jail term in the state of Texas under a proposal unveiled Thursday by Gov. Greg Abbott (R), along with a slew of other new, severe penalties for protesting that’s viewed as going too far, in a very similar plan to one released in Florida earlier in the week.

Abbott announced the proposal during a news conference at Dallas Police Association headquarters Thursday afternoon, just three days after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced proposed very similar new restrictions in the state of Florida. forbes.com

TX. Gov. Greg Abbott calls for new crimes, mandatory jail time for certain offenses related to protests

FL. Gov DeSantis Urges Lawmakers To Pass Protest Criminalization Bill By November

COVID Update

US: Over 7.1M Cases - 207K Dead - 4.4M Recovered
Worldwide: Over 32.4M Cases - 989K Dead - 24M Recovered

Private Industry Security Guard Deaths: 189 Law Enforcement Officer Deaths: 114
*Red indicates change in total deaths

McKinsey and Company
An optimistic scenario for the US response to COVID-19
Much would need to happen, but returning the country to something that approaches stability by next summer may be possible.

13.6 million Americans remain unemployed. And for each month of delay in getting the virus under control, more will die—and the return of GDP to precrisis levels will be delayed by about two months.

Nonetheless, we have made progress. As slow as it may seem, we’ve continued to learn more about the natural history and epidemiology of COVID-19. We’re developing better diagnostics, including rapid point-of-care tests, a few of which can be completed in about 15 minutes. An army of doctors and researchers around the country has been managing and treating the disease and producing a wealth of new knowledge on treatment strategies and procedures.

On balance, as our colleagues suggest, normalcy might resume in the first half of 2021, and herd immunity could be reached in the second half. And as medical progress builds, there may yet be a place for optimism. If we stay focused and maintain discipline, a best-case scenario to control the pandemic might be reached—perhaps as soon as next summer. mckinsey.com

$2.4 Trillion Stimulus Package Coming
Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Hits 7 Million Cases, Less Than a Month
After Reaching 6 Million
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed seven million on Thursday, according to a New York Times database, although the country is recording fewer new daily cases than it did during the pandemic’s midsummer peak.

The nation has averaged at least 41,000 new cases a day over the past week, compared with a daily average of about 65,000 cases in July.

In California on Thursday, officials recorded their 800,000th case since the start of the pandemic. That is more than any other state, but the figure is cumulative, and does not capture the state’s current situation. The state is reporting a relatively low number of new cases a day, according to the Times database. Calif. is 26th in the total number of known cases per capita since the start of the pandemic and has had significantly fewer virus cases per capita than other states like Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.

It was less than a month ago that the United States reached six million cases, on Aug. 30. It had taken more than three months for the country to record its first million.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and top Democrats on Thursday moved forward with the development of a roughly $2.4 trillion stimulus bill that would provide pandemic aid to American families, restaurants and airlines, amid growing pressure from moderates who demanded additional action before lawmakers leave Washington next week to campaign for re-election. nytimes.com

U.K. And France Break Daily Coronavirus Case Record As Europe Braces
For Second Pandemic Wave
Both the United Kingdom and France counted record-breaking new daily coronavirus infections Thursday, and while officials partly credit an increased testing capacity, the numbers point toward a possible second coronavirus wave sweeping across Europe. forbes.com

To tell, or not to tell
There’s Covid in the Office. Who Should Know?
As workers return to offices in greater numbers, managers face this inevitable situation: An employee tests positive for Covid-19, possibly exposing others at the workplace. Who should be told about it?

The pros and cons of four major approaches.

Tell nobody: “As an employer, I owe a duty of care to all my employees. They have a right to know.”

Tell only those in possible contact: The risk of telling a narrower group of people, lawyers warn, is that it may reveal, explicitly or otherwise, who tested positive — and it’s important to protect an employee’s confidentiality. It may also rankle some who work in the general vicinity.

Tell everyone in the building: Technically, the workplace is a manager’s “zone of duty,” That could mean notifying anybody who could have shared air or space with the infected person, but he suggested circumspection with clients.

Tell everyone in the company: Strictly speaking, if there’s no possible contact — in a lobby, elevator or elsewhere — it’s probably not necessary for everyone to know. But wide disclosure can cultivate a culture of transparency and openness. It can also become overwhelming at a big company where a lot of cases may be inevitable. nytimes.com

Kenya: Security guard by day, surgeon assistant by night

The truth about violent crime in American cities, explained in 11 charts
Wading through these mixed messages of what’s happening in cities, it’s hard to tell just what the data says. Most types of crime decreased this summer, while serious violent crimes — such as aggravated assault and murder — increased, according to an analysis of crime rates in 27 major US cities by the Council on Criminal Justice, a criminal justice think tank. A preliminary crime report published by the FBI earlier this month shows similar trends nationwide.

To make sense of what this all means, the Marshall Project and Vox have parsed findings from January to June, as well as decades prior for comparison, of not just crime data but media reports, public opinion polls, and stats on policing and jail populations.

Politicians and pundits are pointing fingers at what they believe caused the increase in violent crime rates: the protests against police violence, movements to defund the police, and efforts to release people from overcrowded jails and prisons ravaged by the coronavirus. But the data available thus far does not support that these are the culprits.

Here are 11 data visualizations, along with analysis, that can help think through what the summer’s crime trends mean and how to move forward.

Violent crime was up in early summer; nonviolent and property crime was down vox.com

Industry group working to phase out barcode-based coupons
The Coupon Bureau is developing a universal digital coupon.
The non-profit, industry-managed coupon data exchange technology platform that works with many of the largest CPG manufacturers and retailers is creating a singular, centralized database of offers for use across paper, mobile, or online commerce. Known as the Universal Positive Offer File, the database has moved into the next phase of development.

The Universal Positive Offer File will leverage the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to create a universal digital coupon for the retail industry. The universal digital coupon will feature a new coupon application type, known as AI (8112), that will enhance coupon security and reduce fraud.

Every coupon generated will have a digital fingerprint on the HCS, a decentralized public network governed by global technology companies including Google and IBM. When a coupon is redeemed, it will also be recorded on HCS, so it cannot be used again or reproduced. chainstoreage.com

Weekend Weather to Hamper California Fire Fighting
‘If you think it’s bad now, just wait’: California faces new fire threats, further straining resources
Another heat wave is bearing down, presenting an unwelcome double threat in a state where firefighting resources are already stretched thin. Conditions such as those expected this weekend can make it harder to contain fires burning now and make it easier for new ones to start.

The heat will arrive at what’s already a dangerous time from a fire perspective. In recent years, some of California’s worst blazes have ignited in October, November and even December, when hot Santa Ana, sundowner and diablo winds bear down, fanning the flames.

“There are another two months of drama ahead,” climatologist Bill Patzert said. “If you think the season is bad now, just wait.” latimes.com

ASIS' virtual GSX+ event
INTRUSION Shield Receives ASIS International’s 2020 Innovative Product Award
ASIS International, the world's largest membership organization for security management professionals, celebrates INTRUSION Shield, the recipient of its 2020 Innovative Product Award (IPA) - being recognized at this week’s Global Security Exchange Plus (GSX+) virtual experience. The ASIS International IPA competition recognizes the security industry’s most innovative new products, services, and technology solutions. These peer-distinguished solutions address critical industry trends and reflect the best of the innovation shaping the security industry. INTRUSION Shield follows in the footsteps of 2019 Judge’s Choice recipient, Ouster’s OS-1-64 Lidar. asisonline.org

Day 1: GSX+ Conference Opens With Message of Unity From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Juan Manuel Santos

Day 2: GSX+ Embraces the Future With Keynote, Programming

Day 3: GSX+ Kicks Off Military & Law Enforcement Appreciation Day With Keynote by Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Day 4: Keren Elazari Delivers GSX+ Keynote Address on the Future of Cybersecurity

Coresight Research
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Reduce In-Store Contact with EAS Tags Using ALL-TAG's Hard Tag Recirculation Program

Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) Source Tagging and EAS Tag Recirculation are playing a large role in the evolution of retail logistics and loss prevention. Retailers realize that in-store tagging is very expensive, time consuming, and highly inefficient, and they are looking toward solutions that move EAS tagging to the most economical place in the logistics chain – out of the store, and back toward where the merchandise is manufactured.

Enterprising early adopters, such as Kohl’s, Gap, Inc., Zara and bebe have proven that EAS Tag Recirculation provides important benefits, including:

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● More security and better shortage reduction results than with sewn-in or disposable EAS.
● Cash rebates for the return of tags and pins.

By implementing EAS Tag Recirculation, retailers achieve higher levels of efficiency and customer satisfaction through this sustainable, innovative growth program spearheaded by their loss prevention department.

NIST Unveils Updated Guide to Privacy, Security Controls
Guidelines Describe How to Use 'Next Generation' of Controls

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology this week released a long-awaited guidance update, Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5, describing "next-generation security and privacy controls" and how to use them.

It's the first time since 2013 that NIST has updated the document, which addresses the cybersecurity risks faced by federal government agencies as well as organizations in the private sector and offers guidelines on mitigating risks, protecting data and stopping breaches.

"This publication provides a catalog of security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations to protect organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations and the nation from a diverse set of threats and risks, including hostile attacks, human errors, natural disasters, structural failures, foreign intelligence entities and privacy risks," according to the document. govinfosecurity.com

570% increase in bit-and-piece DDoS attacks in 2020
Attackers shifted tactics in Q2 2020, with a 570% increase in bit-and-piece DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year, according to the new Nexusguard Q2 2020 Threat Report. Perpetrators used bit-and-piece attacks to launch various amplification and elaborate UDP-based attacks to flood target networks with traffic. Nexusguard analysts witnessed attacks using much smaller sizes—more than 51% of bit-and-piece attacks were smaller than 30Mbps—to force communications service providers (CSPs) to subject entire networks of traffic to risk mitigation. This causes significant challenges for CSPs and typical threshold-based detection, which is unreliable for pinpointing the specific attacks to apply the correct mitigation. securitymagazine.com

Credential stuffing is just the tip of the iceberg
Credential stuffing attacks are taking up a lot of the oxygen in cybersecurity rooms these days. A steady blitz of large-scale cybersecurity breaches in recent years have flooded the dark web with passwords and other credentials that are used in subsequent attacks such as those on Reddit and State Farm, as well as widespread efforts to exploit the remote work and online get-togethers resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

But while enterprises are rightly worried about weathering a hurricane of credential-stuffing attacks, they also need to be concerned about more subtle, but equally dangerous, threats to APIs that can slip in under the radar.

Beyond credential stuffing
The majority of threats to APIs move beyond credential stuffing, which is only one of many threats to APIs as defined in the 2019 OWASP API Security Top 10. In many instances they are not automated, are much more subtle and come from authenticated users. darkreading.com

Malware Attacks Declined But Became More Evasive in Q2
While malware detections in Q2 decreased 8% compared with the previous quarter, attacks involving malware that were not detectable by signature-based antivirus systems jumped 12% during the same quarter. Some seven in 10 attacks that organizations encountered in Q2, in fact, involved malware designed to circumvent antivirus signatures.

The biggest takeaway from the analysis was the increase in attacks involving malware variants that used so-called "packers" or "crypters" to evade detection mechanisms. darkreading.com

Phishers are targeting employees with fake GDPR compliance reminders

Tech notes from GSX+

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Curbing Cannabis Store Crime
There’s more to preventing robberies than removing window coverings: expert

Concerns have been raised that retailer Fire & Flower hasn’t done enough to protect employees following a February break-in

In February there was a string of robberies at cannabis stores in Edmonton, Alberta. Local police said the thieves used the store’s covered windows to their advantage by ensuring no one outside could see the hold up.

The Cannabis Act says no weed or related items can be visible to minors, so retailers removed visibility from the outside.

But the coverings were putting staff at risk, then Fire & Flower spokesperson Nathan Mison told Mugglehead at the time. That’s the same line of logic British Columbia followed when it said in June that cannabis retailers no longer had to cover windows.

To prevent further robberies Mison said the retailer would remove stickers to allow for people to see in and out, using store layout instead of window coverings to prevent underage eyes from peeping pot.

Not everyone agrees that clear windows were a catch-all solution.

Some stores removed window coverings close to the ground or the ceiling, so people’s heads and feet are visible. Others have clear windows that look in at the entryway. There are locations unable to remove the vinyl because they were built in a way that cannabis would be visible from the street without covering the windows, according to Watson.

When asked why staff were not briefed on the specific details about this robbery, Watson said the retailer could not share details with the public or staff “for both security and privacy concerns.”

That stance could be putting staff at risk, says Tony Gallo, managing partner for Sapphire Risk Advisory Group, which helps Canadian and U.S. cannabis retailers prevent break-ins. sapphirerisk.com mugglehead.com

The Cannabis Industry is Ripe for Enforcement
The reason I suspect there will be heightened enforcement of marijuana smoke and THC is for the following reasons: (1) there is an increased societal push to understand what people are consuming/using on their bodies, (2) given the potentially controversial nature of marijuana and CBD, regulators are going to want to take a stand with this industry and make sure it is properly regulated- especially in consumer friendly California, and (3) there is no current “safe harbor limit” established by OEHHA for THC. cannabisbusinessexecutive.com

How one cannabis industry legal veteran and license holder sees cannabis security

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Amazon is Watching
Amazon employees fear HR is targeting minority and activism groups in email monitoring program
Some workers are raising concerns in light of larger tensions over labor organizing.

Some Amazon employees are furious after they discovered the company’s HR department appears to be quietly monitoring a subset of listservs dedicated to employees who are minorities and those who are involved in activism.

Earlier this week, a group of Amazon employees discovered that an email alias affiliated with Amazon’s HR team had subscribed to 78 listservs at Amazon, the majority of which are related to underrepresented employees and employee activism issues, such as climate change, Black employee networking, and Muslim employees. Amazon has thousands of internal emailing lists where employees discuss common interests and projects, so the dozens of listservs that the alias was subscribed to are a small subset of the total groups that exist.

Amazon denies that its HR teams were tracking emails to monitor organizing, and told Recode that it subscribed to the groups to monitor employee feedback on company culture.

Just last month, Bloomberg News reported that Amazon had posted a job listing (which it later removed) for analysts to research “labor organizing threats against the company.”

After discovering the alias, an Amazon employee sent a message to all 78 listservs informing them that the company seemed to be watching their activities. Vice first reported on an Amazon employee warning their colleagues about the monitoring.

“If this is what it looks like ... then this is a specific targeting of non-white male groups as potential threats to be observed,” said one employee. “It means that the people responsible for that at Amazon believe that women and people of color are suspicious and threats to the company.” vox.com

Amazon’s surveillance cameras fly now — which is unsettling
The company just announced a tiny drone that can carry a Ring camera anywhere in your home.

Amazon has announced a new way for consumers to surveil their own homes: a camera-equipped drone that connects to Ring security systems. Ring, which Amazon owns, has a history of enabling controversial levels of surveillance in homes and neighborhoods. So the addition of a flying camera that can venture into new nooks and crannies is, at best, unsettling.

The announcement comes after Amazon last year won a patent for a home surveillance drone; it’s also worth mentioning that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has not yet authorized the sale of this device.

The Ring Always Home Cam is designed to fly around different areas of someone’s home every so often, capturing footage before landing back in its dock.

A promotional video from Ring that shows a hypothetical robbery in which a burglar breaks into a man’s bedroom while the man is not home. The drone then chases off the burglar while the man anxiously watches the action through a smartphone app.

While a Ring spokesperson told Recode that the Always Home camera footage cannot be requested by police, Amazon has not made a formal commitment not to allow police to request this footage in the future. vox.com

During COVID-19, the rich don't do Amazon like you and me

Nationwide Fraud Gang Leader Gets 110 Months Prison for $3.5M Retail Fraud

Buying Gift Cards & Luxury Goods for Resale With Stolen CC Info
The leader of a multi-million dollar conspiracy that used stolen credit card account information to make fraudulent retail purchases around the country was sentenced today to 110 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

From at least 2015 through 2018, Hamilton Eromosele, 29, led a network of individuals, based in the New Jersey/New York area, who made short trips around the United States in order to use stolen credit card information to purchase gift cards, flights, hotels, rental cars, and other goods and services. Eromosele obtained stolen credit card information through the “dark web” and other sources, which he then provided to conspirators. Eromosele often recruited women via social media, with promises of easy profits, to fly to various locations to make fraudulent purchases. He collected his conspirators’ fraudulently purchased gift cards or luxury goods, sold them for cash, and dispersed a percentage of the proceeds to the conspirators.

Conspirators made trips to numerous other states – including Colorado, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Montana, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, and Georgia – and made over $3.5 million in fraudulent purchases using over 4,000 stolen credit card accounts. justice.gov

North College Hill, OH: 2 arrested after officers found large amount of drugs, nearly $100,000 worth of stolen items
Two North College Hill police officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on West Galbraith Road near Daly Road after they observed the vehicle traveling 44 mph in a 25 mph zone. A police K-9 alerted officers to search the vehicle. Officers found multiple needles, drug paraphernalia, a digital scale and a large amount of prescription drugs inside the vehicle. According to North College Hill police, officers were able to recover bulk amounts of fentantyl, heroin, methamphetamine, ecstasy and Xanax while searching the vehicle. Authorities then searched the pair's trailer and officers found around $100,000 worth of stolen tools, camera systems, a firearm and jewelry. More drugs were also located at the tailer, Jay Manning, with North College Hill police, said.

Other stolen items that were found include a hot water heater, a high-end saw and lawn tractors. According to police, representatives from Home Depot, Lowe's and Menards are coming to look at the stolen tools to see if they can identify them because many of the tools were still in their original packaging. "We have stuff still in the original packaging that has price tags on it," Manning said. wlwt.com

Llano County, TX: Two men accused of stealing $20K worth of electronics from Walmart
Robert Lee Williams III, 27, and Jerome Anthony Ward, 26, both from Galveston, are charged with theft and fictitious name. A traffic stop was initiated in the Valley Spring area where Williams, Ward and two females were detained. During a search of the car deputies discovered 16 iPhones, 81 AirPods, 6 Powerbeats, 1 iPod Touch, and 1 Apple TV. All items were still in their boxes and suspected of being stolen -- with a value at well over $20,000. cbsaustin.com

Update: Russian pleads in Aspen $95,000 Jewelry theft case
Mayya Kvek, 48, a native of Russia was extradited from New York to Aspen last year after being identified as part of a gang of thieves that targeted a downtown jewelry store three years ago pleaded guilty Thursday to theft. Kvek was initially charged in Aspen with felony theft between $20,000 and $100,000 for allegedly taking part in the theft of $95,000 worth of jewelry from Maja du Brul Jewelry in the 300 block of Hopkins Avenue in September 2017. aspentimes.com

Lorain, OH: Police want duo accused of stealing $2500 in merchandise from store

Spring Hill, TN: Police search for Target and Kohl's shoplifters: $1,000 of Nike items stolen from Kohl’s

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Shootings & Deaths

Troy, NY: Teen hospitalized after being shot leaving C-Store
Troy Police say a teen is in grave condition after he was shot late Thursday night. Police say they received the call just after 11:00 p.m. Thursday. It happened on the corner of 7th Avenue. Police say it appeared that he suffered a gunshot to the head. He has been taken to Albany Medical Center. news10.com

Houston, TX: Deadly shooting behind southeast Houston restaurants, bars may be case of self-defense

Indianapolis, IN: Inappropriate handling of key witness by Detective lead to C-Store employee murder charge being dropped

Robberies, Incidents & Thefts

Orange County, FL: Security guard held at gunpoint during Florida Mall Jewelry kiosk Burglary
A Florida Mall security guard was held at gunpoint by three masked culprits who stole money from him and burglarized a jewelry kiosk, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said the victim was on patrol shortly before 11 p.m. on Sept. 13 when he noticed three masked figures coming his way, pointing a gun at him. One of the culprits, believed to be a man, ordered the victim to the ground, took the cash from his wallet and stole his phone and radio, records show. clickorlando.com

Indianapolis, IN: Man and woman sentenced to 13 years in Federal Prison for Walgreens Armed Robbery
According to court documents and testimony, Sisk and Barbee were accompanied by another individual when they entered the Walgreens on Fremont St. at approximately 4:20 a.m. Sept. 10, 2018. The defendants displayed and pointed apparent guns at the pharmacy employees as they bound the employees with zip ties. The defendants demanded narcotics and threatened to kill the employees if they did not cooperate. The defendants took large quantities of Adderall, hydrocodone, oxycodone and methylphenidate, a generic form of Ritalin, to sell. galesburg.com

Miami, FL: Rapper DaBaby Interrogated by Miami Robbery Detectives
Back in January, Dababy was accused of robbery and his interrogation footage has been released. Baby and his crew was accused of of jumping a man and robbing him they also allegedly doused him poured apple juice on him before leaving. During the interrogation, he clearly denies his role in the alleged robbery. hot97.com

Las Vegas, NV: Police seek suspect who committed, attempted Armed Robberies of several businesses

Mount Pleasant, SC: Walmart Shoplifter pulls a Knife on LP over a Pepsi and a bag of chips

Ex-C-store employee charged with Armed Robbery; stole $8,000

Atlanta, GA: Five Church's Chicken restaurants have become targets for Burglary for the last several weeks

Plymouth County, IA: Former Deputy accused of stealing prescription pills, connected to Pharmacy Burglaries

• AT&T – Waco, TX – Armed Robbery
• Adult – Columbia, MO – Armed Robbery
• C-Store – Oxford, AL – Burglary
• C-Store – Las Vegas, NV – Armed Robbery
• C-Store – Lorain, OH – Robbery
• C-Store – Kansas City, MO - Burglary
• C-Store – Ottawa County, MI - Burglary
• Gas Station – Mankato, MN – Armed Robbery
• Gas Station – Savage, MN – Robbery
• Gas Station – Carson City, NV – Burglary
• Gas Station – Ocala, FL – Armed Robbery
• Grocery – Lower Pottsgrove, PA – Burglary
• Jewelry – Milford, CT – Robbery
• Jewelry – Orange County, FL – Armed Robbery
• Marijuana – Lawton, OK – Burglary
• Metro – T-Mobile – Waco, TX – Armed Robbery
• Restaurant - Fairview Heights, IL – Armed Robbery (5 Guys)
• Restaurant – Atlanta, GA – Burglary
• Restaurant - Medford, OR – Robbery (Dairy Queen)
• Walmart – Mount Pleasant, SC – Armed Robbery

Daily Totals:
• 13 robberies
• 7 burglaries
• 0 shootings
• 0 killed

Weekly Totals:
• 83 robberies
• 21 burglaries
• 2 shootings
• 2 killed

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