Los Angeles Police ‘Still Making the Arrests, but Nobody Is Staying in Jail’

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Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers wear facial covering while monitoring an "Open California" rally in downtown Los Angeles, on April 22, 2020. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—For Tonna, the manager of a shop in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, her experience in recent days is like many other small-business owners who have been victimized amid a trend of organized retail crime across the city. She declined to give her last name.

“Recently, it’s become normal,” she told The Epoch Times, her voice shaking. “They grab stuff and they leave.”