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- NATION, Page 53American NotesDALLAS Police Presence
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- Borrowing an idea from British police who noted a decline
- in shoplifting when life-size cutouts of bobbies were placed
- in stores, three Kroger food stores in Dallas have installed
- "scarecrooks" in high-theft areas on their shopping floors.
- Under each 6-ft. cardboard cutout is the slogan SHOPLIFTING IS
- A CRIME. Though no would-be thief is likely to mistake the
- cardboard coppers for the real thing, the cutouts help convey
- the message that pilfering is illegal. Says Kroger security
- director Charlie Tyner, "It's a startling way to say the same
- old thing."
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