Key Takeaway

The Michigan FORCE Team is making significant strides in combating retail crime through multi-jurisdictional operations.

Why it matters

The team's integrated approach, with embedded prosecutors and cross-state collaboration, is creating a replicable model for organized retail crime units.

What's next

The team identified three key needs to expand their impact:

• Additional prosecutors (currently have 2, need 4-5)
• Fiscal analyst for money tracking
• More storage space for seized goods

The bottom line

Despite resource constraints, the Michigan FORCE Team has become a point of contact for multi-state investigations, with their model being adopted by other states like Pennsylvania.

Retail's Most Wanted is presented by LVT and the Attorney General Alliance.