the real organized thieves, the people that do this for a living, they are very, very brazen most of the time. meet target s top cop, tony heredia, and he s considered the biggest threat to the retail giants yet. they ve thought out their plan and know what their strategy is going to be, go straight in, conduct the theft, and they leave. he wants boosters to know that target investigators are always watching. this clip here, you ll see they re attempting to block the criminal activity going on, the prying up of the ipod case with a rather large box. at one point in this clip, a person who is not involved with these people in any shape or form, will literally walk right past them, wow, they are stealing something right out of the case and it doesn t even phase these thieves one bit. they don t even think about stopping their activity while this person goes by. that s how brazen they are. this person has brought a crow bar into the store with them. he thinks he s going to conceal
the honest sellers and maintain the trust of the millions of shoppers. in a letter to our producers, the company said, ebay s global trust and safety team employs more than 2,000 individuals dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of our marketplace. it went on to say ebay provides full cooperation to law enforcement and dedicates significant resources and millions of dollars each year to meet that goal, and investigators say that some of the responsibility lies with the consumers themselves. they should think to themselves, is it worth me getting a great deal to fund a criminal enterprise? is it worth me getting a good deal to help people buy guns or drugs or circumvent legitimate business dealers who depend on their livelihood to make money on reselling merchandise legitimately when they get that great deal? over the last two years, one of target s big problems is the sophisticated theft and sales of high valued electronics, like the popular ipod.
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them. in keeping with target s mission, fighting crime is a total team effort. along with hundreds of trained investigators, behind these closed doors, target maintains their secret weapon. a crack team of forensic scientists. it s csi minneapolis. whether it s analyzing stickers, tracking stolen merchandise, or monitoring suspicious e-commerce, the forensic team at target is second to none. just how skilled are they? federal and state officials use the retailers team to help them with evidence unrelated to corporate crime. senior forensic investigator rick laughtenberg wants criminals to know target investigators are intrepid and patient. just because somebody walks away from a store doesn t mean it s over. welcome to the state-of-the-art video analysis
lab where editor craig thorn painstakingly examines surveillance video frame by frame. what craig is doing is he s literally examining that evidence, that video evidence and trying to extract all the possible details that are relevant to the prosecution. why don t you go back and forth to the other shot. how specific can you be? well, in this particular case, i stated that unless this guy here has a twin brother that has got the same tattoo, based on the comparisons of the facial features and the tattoo similarities, unless he s got a twin brother, i m going to go to court and say it s the same person. the difficulties in the cases coming to target is showing the same group of people is in fact connected all across the different stores, different states, different region, different market. the important point is to validate these are the same people. if you can do that you make law enforcement officers jobs much easier. with millions at risk, a critical job of risk assessmen