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Your security footage is your best witness — until it becomes the other side's. In "The Camera Cuts Both Ways," Don Carr and Jim Cords break down the two opposite dangers hiding in the same camera. Delete footage after a duty to preserve has attached, and routine auto-overwrite becomes spoliation — potentially an adverse inference where the jury is told to assume the missing evidenc...

The person at the center of this episode never stole anything. They were a customer — attacked in the parking lot on the way back to their car. In "Foreseeable Harm," Don Carr and Jim Cords widen the season from the suspect to the invitee, breaking down negligent security: the duty a business owes to protect the people it invites in from foreseeable third-party crime. Why customers earn...

A forty-dollar stop. A hand on an arm. A back room, a closed door, twenty minutes waiting on a manager and a six-figure false imprisonment claim. In the season's most operationally fixable episode, Jim Cords and Don Carr break down shopkeeper's privilege and the three walls that contain it: reasonable belief, reasonable time, reasonable manner. Step outside any one and the privilege vani...

Last week, Store B's AI caught the theft, logged it, and nobody moved — leaving the store that saw the crime more exposed than the one that stayed blind. In Part 2 of Detection's Dilemma, Don Carr and Jim Cords resolve the paradox by rebuilding Store B without changing a single piece of hardware. The fix isn't less detection — it's the half of the system the vendor doesn't...

Two stores, the same theft, the same week. One has no camera and never knew. The other's AI detected it, flagged it, timestamped it — and nobody moved. If those incidents reach a jury, the store that saw it gets treated worse. In Part 1 of Detection's Dilemma, Don Carr and Jim Cords expose the paradox at the heart of AI-era loss prevention: detection systems are knowledge-manufacturing m...

A store's parking lot gets hit once. Then again. Then a third time. When the fourth victim's attorney shows up, he doesn't ask "did you cause this?" — he asks "did you know?" In the Season 3 premiere, Don Carr and Jim Cords break down foreseeability: not a gut feeling, but a legal doctrine built from pattern and notice that turns what you know into what you legal...

A retail case is only as good as the paper underneath it. Don and Jim walk the documentation chain end to end. Jim draws on twenty-eight years of federal investigations to lay out what kills cases at the prosecution end.  Don speaks from years owning and operating guard firms about where the same failure modes get introduced at the front of the chain. The witness who was never properly interviewed...

There is a structure underneath every loss prevention program. Most leaders inherit it. Few examine it. Khris Hamlin spends his career looking at that structure across the largest retailers in the country at the same time. As Vice President of Asset Protection and Retail Technology at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, he sits in one of the only seats in the industry with that view. Recorded...

Chris Ochs answered the question through a different lens. The retail theft arrest rate is roughly 1 in 48. In Part 1, Jason Davies of Sekura Global described a downstream chain that no longer holds — cases built, cases handed off, cases that go nowhere. This week, SAFR's Chris Ochs reframes the conversation one layer earlier. The most consequential intervention may not be downstream at all....

From the floor of RILA RAP 2026 in Phoenix. 15 years of better cameras. 15 years of better analytics. 15 years of faster alerts. And the retail theft arrest rate is still roughly 1 in 48. DJ Carr took that question to the people building the technology. In Part 1, he sits down with Jason Davies of Sekura Global, whose answer points past hardware tagging at the same structural problem detection alo...

This week on the CitySafe Podcast, Don Carr sits down with co-host Jim Cords, retired FBI and DHS Investigator, for an unflinching conversation about how the retailer and law enforcement relationship has changed in the last five years. From the eighteen-month case that got away, to the fourteen-incident pattern file that closed in under a year, Jim walks through what actually broke the old loop, w...

Headquartered in Utah since 2005, LiveView Technologies has provided on demand, rapidly deployed surveillance to the largest companies in the world. Today, LVT is used by DOTs, oil, gas, law enforcement, retail, construction, housing and other industries. Whether you need surveillance in a parking lot, on a lonely roadway, at a busy intersection, or at a concert or sporting event—LVT has a solutio...

New technologies and solutions aimed at security, safety and loss prevention.  Listen in as we learn how The New DICE Corporation is helping the industry obtain better insights and outcomes. 

Chris and Don recap previous episodes and talk about future episodes. 

 A must listen as we interview special guests Lisa LaBruno and Michael Hanson of RILA as they provide insightful and informative input on solutions for combatting ORC and violence in the retail space. 

Guest interview with CEO Ryan Harris of Ensurity. Join us as we understand how GPS tracking is helping law enforcement obtain excellent results and providing retailers with exceptional ROI. 

Join us as we discuss solutions aimed at supply chain insights and cargo theft security with Heinz Klein (Chief Commercial Officer) at SecureSystem.

A must listen as we explore next level security  and loss prevention technology-driven solutions top brands are deploying to better help humans fight crime and obtain better outcomes.  Special guest interview with Tyson Johns, SVP,  Security Operations and Dwayne Healy, VP of Security and BI Solutions at Interface Systems. 

Chris and Don discuss the impact of return fraud and potential changes coming to the industry. 

Listen in as we interview Jason Jaeger (CEO) of Tenacity and explore cloud security and the best way to ensure your data is protected. 

Join us as we learn about how a new robust machine learning platform is successfully combating Organized Retail Crime and shoplifting. 

Chris and Don take a deep dive into some of the whats and whys as it pertains to the increase in retail crime violence. 

We take a deep dive into new laws and the potential impact on Organized Retail Crime.

Join us as we interview Jason Bier the Founder & CEO of Treuth as we discuss a cutting-edge solution that is having a significant impact on bringing ORC rings to justice.

Retail smash and grabs a very effective solution by Future Vu Brands. Join as we hear from the CEO Jeff Franson!