In southeast New Mexico where my brother lives. A Deputy Sheriff from the little town north of them was seen pretending to self check some items. Those items were higher dollar that the ones he really scanned. He was observed doing this on review of the security video. The door checker had made it a habit to just wave him one because often he was in uniform.

When the theft was discovered on video they set up a watch for his next trip to Wally World. He pulled the same stunt again and was caught in the act.

Everyone pays for the theives actions with higher prices. That area is swarming with shop lifters and it gets worse because in addition to some being the cops, the cops are also letting others go.

When a local business owner who was seeing repeat offenders come back again and again to his store went to the DA to complain about these people never going to court she showed him her logs and none of the cases from the cops had been referred to her.

The problem in that area is closely tied to the ethnicity of the theives and the cops.