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One day, the left woke up and decided that shoplifters were the real victims. Subsequently, a theft epidemic ensued in many liberal-run places all over the country. And by decreasing penalties for shoplifting, so much so that progressives have essentially decriminalized it in many areas, you get more shoplifters. This is not rocket science, and you did not need to see things play out to predict it. And because it was so obvious, this makes the motives behind lessening penalties for shoplifting all the more sinister. Nonetheless, because the left cannot be bothered to uphold public safety, places like Home Depot and Lowe's have no choice but to install license plate readers.

According to the New York Post:

Lowe’s and Home Depot are ramping up surveillance in store parking lots in states including California, Texas and Connecticut AI-powered license plate readers to combat theft and keep customers safe — but privacy advocates warn the devices could track shoppers’ movements.

The systems can create searchable records showing where vehicles travel, when they arrive and how often they visit certain locations — prompting worries that the technology can amass data about consumer behavior that can be accessible to law enforcement, hackers, private investigators or even misused internally.

Home Depot was named in a class action lawsuit filed last week in California federal court alleging that the department chain was running a covert surveillance system using LPR technology and then feeding that information to a database accessed by law enforcement.

At the end of the ABC News video, the reporter claims critics are concerned this data can be shared with law enforcement agencies to crack down on immigration enforcement and abortion procedures. It is unclear how progressives look at a business cracking down on shoplifting, and somehow correlate it to abortion and ICE. Do these people just make things up to scare the public? Clearly, it would appear so.

Secondly, places like California and Connecticut are sanctuary jurisdictions. Thirdly, both these states make abortion a woman’s right. So again, these people are just making things up.

The systems use cameras to capture images of vehicles and license plates along with the time, date and location, according to the companies’ privacy policies.

Robert McWhirter, a constitutional historian and criminal defense lawyer, told The Post the use of surveillance cameras on private property is “probably legal” — though he said the constitutional issues become more complicated once companies share data with law enforcement.

“The key issue is the relationship with law enforcement and what these companies do with the data in their relationship with law enforcement,” McWhirter said.

I am not going to tell you whether or not this is a good idea, or if this means society is heading towards a police state. That is up for you to decide. I will conclude by saying that shoplifting is bad and that you don't have to go to Home Depot or Lowe's if you care about your privacy in that regard.

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