More Articles by Preston Thigpen

As the incidence of major crime continues to rise in shopping centers across America, it is common to read headlines like these, pulled from the news: “At Least 3 Dead in…

It was only after heavy rains caused extensive roof leakage in April that the business owners and strip mall owners learned that someone had cut slits in the rubber that lined the…

“Almost” isn’t good enough when it comes to apprehending intruders. When your interior video surveillance is only recording, you can’t stop an intruder….

Dallas police are searching for the people who tried to steal an ATM from a grocery store at a shopping center Tuesday morning, June 23, 2015. Three people used a champagne-colored…

You may think that a shopping center in a section of Los Angeles that boasts a median household income of $57,124 wouldn’t have to worry about protecting its exterior. But they…

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Police issued a crime alert in March 2015 in Chicago. They are at a disadvantage in breaking a ring of mall theft due to inadequate theft prevention systems at a local strip mall….

One brush with disaster was not enough for authorities to finally install a new crime-preventing surveillance system at a busy Pittsburgh shopping center. Three innocent bystanders…

The southern part of Indiana has suffered a recent string of burglaries that cost businesses $500,000 collectively. The burglaries included shopping center stores. A man from…

Authorities in Beltsville, Maryland had concrete evidence in hand following a shooting at a strip mall. That’s because the unknown shooter was caught by video surveillance…