The city of Vallejo was turned down by the state for a grant request to tackle organized retail and vehicle theft despite many other Bay Area cities being awarded millions of dollars, City Manager Mike Malone said Thursday.
The Organized Retail Theft Prevention Grant Program was established after the passing of California's Budget Act of 2022 and is a competitive grant for police and sheriff departments to help support preventing and responding to the problem.
Generally speaking, organized retail theft is a criminal enterprise involving multiple suspects who converge on a store en masse and steal products or gift cards. In recent years, groups of individuals have become more brazen and will enter a store and"smash and grab" products to then fence or sell. Vehicle theft is also a"massive" problem in Vallejo, according to Hollis, and the grant program could have helped with that, he said.
Needless to say, crime in Vallejo continues to be a problem and the City Council declared a state of emergency in July regarding its police staffing shortage. Malone said he was responding to the community's concern about missing out on the grant funds to fight crime.
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