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- <text id=90TT0054>
- <title>
- Jan. 08, 1990: American Notes:Dallas
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 08, 1990 When Tyrants Fall
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 53
- American Notes
- DALLAS
- Police Presence
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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