Gabbidon has some advice for retailers.
“All (racial and ethnic) groups shoplift,” he says. “You need to monitor demographically (whom) you are arresting and who’s being the target of your arrests.”
He has some advice for shoppers as well.
“People being profiled need to file complaints, and retailers need to respond to those complaints,” he says, adding that filing a complaint creates a record that could help someone else who decides to sue. “If we don’t do it, nothing changes. The reason things changed in racial profiling in automobiles is because someone sued. The state police (were) forced to open its books.”
