Loss Prevention Magazine Podcast

California’s Proposition 47 was a controversial ballot measure that downgraded drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors with the intent of keeping nonviolent offenders out of the state’s overcrowded prison systems. Fewer people in prison, the thinking went, meant a cost savings that could be redirected towards state services aimed at providing former inmates with the support they need t...

Building and maintaining strong working relationships with your managers is critical to your success in any job in any organization. That’s a tall order under the best of circumstances, and an essential aspect of effective loss prevention strategies. It’s even more challenging if you and your manager work in locations remote from each other. Renown management guru Bruce Tulgan of RainmakerThinking...

LAAORCA, the Los Angeles Area Organized Retail Crime Association, is still active and growing as a law enforcement-retail loss prevention partnership in the Los Angeles market. As similar organizations are established across the country, LAAORCA provides a model of success that others should consider in the ongoing fight against organized retail crime. 

Cheryl Blake and Troy Rhein of Verisk Retail discuss how data science can impact a business and support your asset protection strategy. 

Jerry Wilkins of Active Risk Survival Inc. discusses the preparation required for potential “Hostile Events” within the retail space. With the growing number of these events and the association of liability risk, failure to plan is not an option. During this podcast several recent events and litigation results are highlighted and discussed. This podcast is sponsored by Axis Communications.  

Hidden costs are those unforeseen expenses added on to purchases. We all know them. They can be minor, such as our airline charges or hotel charges. But they can also be major, such as investigations, litigation, or disaster recovery.  The more research we do, the more we find these hidden costs and it is our responsibility as loss prevention professionals, to discover and resolve them. This webin...