True Patriot Love - Shoplifting Surge： Desperation Fuels Rise in Crime #shorts

00:00:00.000 I brought up the Les Mis reference because in the late 1700s in Paris, there was a lot of desperate poor people.

00:00:07.240 And the whole story with Les Miserables was stealing a loaf of bed to feed your family going to jail.

00:00:12.440 But we're seeing all these examples coast to coast of people so desperate for money that they're doing a lot of shoplifting,

00:00:19.360 including an example of an individual in Vancouver who set a fire to a toilet paper display in a store to shoplift.

00:00:27.080 and as he told police after it was to get money to feed his drug addiction yeah and this is a uh

00:00:33.000 this is a common more common occurrence ever shoplifting on the rise by as much as 20 percent

00:00:39.000 in the vancouver area patterson grocery is where this uh took place and they're reporting that

00:00:44.840 it's almost become an unmanageable uh it's an unmanageable a daunting task just to deal with

00:00:51.560 the shoplifting on the whole and you take a look at what happened with this individual

00:00:55.480 Once faced with a court date, the net result was really not that serious a charge.

True Patriot Love - October 01, 2026