A recent spree of ‘smash and grab theft,’ a category of organised retail crime (ORC) in major U.S. cities has retailers and shoppers on alert this holiday season.
The size, audacity, and violence of incidents in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago have drawn major media attention, but ORC has been a growing threat for decades. Genetec Inc. (‘Genetec’), a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, shared insights into the phenomenon and strategies for addressing it.
