Edmonton Police Service Chief Dale McFee said the impact of liquor store thefts and robberies on both public safety and police resources in Edmonton has become 'completely unmanageable.'James Burns, the vice-chair and CEO of one of the country’s largest liquor store chains, reads through three e-mails he received on a random Monday morning.
“This is about safety,” Mr. Burns said. “And about people being able to come to work and … do their jobs in an environment that they enjoy, and not feeling like they are going to be beaten up or shot or stabbed.” “It is easy to have zero theft: Lock the doors and have no sales,” he said. “Obviously, that doesn’t work as a business.”
The provincial liquor retailer had previously reported some success with a range of increased security measures, including additional security staff and surveillance, checked bags, locked displays and physical barriers at the doors. However, it’s moving to the controlled entry system in the wake of a violent attack in November, 2019, in which a group of people with knives stormed a city liquor store and seriously assaulted a female employee, leaving her in critical condition.
Police responded to 9,565 calls for theft of liquor last year, or about 26 every day, an almost 300-per-cent increase from the previous year, he said. “This is a new way of thinking,” Chief McFee said of the experimental outsourcing. “We are confident that there are students and vendors, innovators, entrepreneurs and companies with the ingenuity to share different perspectives and explore creative solutions for the benefit of community safety.”
Look at Detroit liquor stores. Get the 1' Lexan glass, not the 1/2' stuff.
Adopting the USA second amendment would be a positive step to stop this.
Alberta is broken
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