Where do you think the term "riding shotgun" comes from?
I think it comes from a stagecoach having a driver and a shotgun guard. That has nothing to do with retail theft; the stagecoach wasn't a store.
I think it comes from a stagecoach having a driver and a shotgun guard. That has nothing to do with retail theft; the stagecoach wasn't a store.
But grouping the two together is a result of the recent San Francisco story being mentioned in this thread. People here on HN are usually so critical of the media, but this LA train story and the San Fran shoplifting story were both treated as a symptom of some larger societal problem. And maybe they are! But that is not at all evident from the stories.
In my opinion, both symptoms are the result of a decades long brutal drive for absolute efficiency in both supply chains and retail stores. And of course organized criminals are going to take advantage of the fact that perhaps that "efficiency" went too far in cutting security.