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Digital Edition Cover Story: Uncovering Art’s Dark Past

- Text-only version from February digital edition.  How museums try to uncover the origins of art to avoid buying or harboring stolen goods.

Managing

- Embezzlers don’t always fit a profile, so companies should establish basic procedures that apply to all employees who have access to company funds.

Case Study: Resorting to Monitoring

- One bucolic resort found that it had outgrown its existing alarm system but managed to expand with minimal new infrastructure expense.

Report: Billions of Dollars Worth of Smartphones Lost Annually

- Many of the cities with the highest rates of lost phones were also in the top ranks of the FBI’s most recent crime statistics, according to a new industry report.

Teaming Up on Loss Prevention

- How loss prevention teams can help retail stores cut losses in lean times by having them focus on specific operational issues, such as high-end items left unsecured.

The New Highwaymen

- Cargo thieves have grown increasingly sophisticated both in their selection of targets and in their operational planning. Still, incidents of cargo theft were down for the first half of 2011, perhaps a sign that some countermeasures are yielding results.

Checking Out Security Solutions

- How technologies are helping retail security and loss prevention teams deter thieves.

Flash Mobs: An Emerging Threat to Retailers

- Multiple offender incidents, styled after flash mobs, are an up-and-coming threat to retailers. This week the National Retail Federation released results of a July survey it administered to gauge the impact.

Italian Guns to be Manufactured with RFID Technology

- RFIDs that are intended for inventory control raise privacy and other concerns among gun owners.

No Artistry In These Crimes

- Thanks to Hollywood, art thieves are imagined as suave playboys in dapper suits who drive sports cars on beachside roads by day and dance through motion detecting lasers in all black attire by night. The picture of a sophisticated thief who steals for the challenge of it or for a wealthy collector is mostly fiction, according to experts.

Two Reports Examine Trends in Organized Retail Crime

- Reports from the National Retail Federation and the Government Accountability Office look at the size and nature of the organized retail crime problem and examine the success of some of the efforts to combat it.

Online Community Helps Police and Businesses Nab Crooks

- A social network of law enforcement and loss prevention professionals known as CrimeDex is helping police identify the criminals who prey on businesses and end their crime spree. (Coverage from ISC West)

DNA Spray Foils U.K. Criminals

- There’s a new weapon in the retail sector’s fight against robberies and burglaries. A fluorescent synthetic DNA spray has been created by the United Kingdom’s Selectamark Security Systems PLC that can both deter and foil commercial burglaries and smash-and-grab raids.