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Cooper highlighted a "disconnect" between frontline retail workers witnessing crime issues and seeking assistance from the sheriff's office, and corporate leaders aiming to avoid negative publicity.
Cooper further said, "To be honest, at the corporate level, the board level, it's about image. That's really what matters and it's sad. People have seen shoplifting going on in the stores with your family. You see it day in, day out and quite frankly, the public's fed up. Right now, it's polling about 80%. So the public is on the side [of], 'Hey, it's out of control. It's time to do something.' But for right now, the retailers, if they choose to, can really deal with it and do an initiative, but it has to go back to the voters."