Lawmakers and retail industry leaders are revealing plans to coordinate efforts to stop organized retail and supply chain crime.
Minnesota Retailers Association president Bruce Nustad told Vineeta Sawkar on the WCCO Morning News criminal networks now are smaller, and more agile, in their approach.
"Think of the technology that these criminal networks are using today," Nustad explains. "We need to sort of fight that crime with the same type of coordination and technology. So really we just need to kind of update how we're doing and think about how crime is prosecuted and looked at in the state. It's kind of city-by-city, county-by-county."
Statistics show Minnesota among the top ten states nationally for retail theft, with incidents occurring about 10% higher than expected, based on population.
"It's not as simple as identifying some four or five leaders and working those angles," Nustad said. "It's literally about constantly going and connecting the dots on these little agile multinational networks."
On Tuesday, lawmakers and retail industry leaders are talking about their plans to coordinate those crime-fighting efforts to combat retail and supply chain theft.
