posted on Friday, August 31, 2007 2:58 PM
by
klehan
Dallas Storeowner: Verified Response a Joke
Dallas business owners are angry about the rising number of break-ins that they attribute to the city’s verified response policy.
What is even more frustrating is that business owners now find it necessary to secure their goods inside safes – inside the premises at which they went through the expense of equipping with an alarm system.
Had Vicki Demarco not gone through this ritual recently, her family’s store could have been emptied by thieves. Demarco and her husband Harry started clearing the store of merchandise after the third break-in in six months. "Probably the last time we got broken in to, if we would've left our store like this (with merchandise visible), we would've been totally wiped out," she said.
"For 17 years we've had no break-ins and then the verified response went into effect and all of a sudden the chains came off of everybody," said Harry Demarco. "This verified response is a joke."