The Best Crime Fighting Partnership Since Batman & Robin

(Newswire.net — January 25, 2016) Draper, UT — The Crime Accountability Partnership (CAP) Program is an innovative and promising collaboration between Turning Point Justice (TPJ) – a Cloud-Justice technology company, and the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention (NASP). The CAP Program is simply the most complete and effective restorative justice platform to help fight retail shoplifting, today.

Retail agents use the CAP Program to quickly screen offenders, assemble digital theft reports, and provide eligible offenders a one-time opportunity to enroll in the Program’s restorative justice course. Gone are the days of waiting on law enforcement and collecting inadequate restitution. Consequences for enrollees are immediate, consistently applied and proportionate to the crime. Plus, the restorative justice course is proven and reduces repeat offenses. Other positive outcomes include:

• Increased restitution 
• Significant reductions in law enforcement calls 
• Reduced retailer time handling cases 
• Lower liability for all stakeholders 
• Improved accountability for shoplifting offenders 

Retailers, community leaders, and law enforcement agencies across the country, are jumping on board with the CAP Program because it’s producing outstanding results.

“I’ve worked as a LP professional with some of the biggest retailers in the world. When Turning Point Justice called, I knew I wanted to be part of this company. The CAP Program, alone, is helping solve problems that have plagued, retailers, LP professionals and law enforcement for too long. The CAP Program makes it a win for everyone involved.” – Paul Jones (Vice President, Retail Strategy – TPJ)

The CAP Program’s quick adoption is also being driven by partnerships that center on respect for the law and the notion that shoplifting steals from all of us. These include:

• Turning Point Justice, which provides the cloud technology and tech backbone for the entire system. 
• The National Association of Shoplifting Prevention (NASP), which administers all of the restorative justice education, manages the Indigence Fund and works directly with the offenders. 
• Retailers, the victims of shoplifting, who are seeking to reduce the crime itself and the monetary loss associated with it 
• Law Enforcement, prosecutors, and courts, who are overburdened with low-level crime and seek to conserve resources for attending to more serious crimes 
• The wider community who wants to reduce criminal activity in their neighborhood 

A final benefit of the CAP Program is that it provides access to a NASP-managed Indigence Fund that guarantees no offender is denied access to the Program and its education course. The fund is sustained by participating retailers who voluntarily pledge part of their restitutions.

Until the introduction of the CAP Program, the coordination needed to efficiently combat shoplifting was almost impossible. Today, coordination is making the impossible, possible. Participating retailers are recovering more and spending less on loss, law enforcement’s time is being conserved for more serious crimes, and offenders are being held accountable and getting the education needed to help stop the cycle.

 

About Turning Point Justice

 Turning Point Justice (TPJ) is a rapidly growing technology company that assists victims of crime, communities and law enforcement agencies through cloud-based software to improve accountability for offenders and outcomes for victims. Designed by criminal justice professionals, TPJ Cloud Justice solutions ensure integrity and compliance from apprehension to offender accountability and community support. Turning Point Justice serves the retail industry in partnership with the National Association of Shoplifting Prevention through the Crime Accountability Program, which saves time and budget for both private and public partners, ensures consistent restitution and legal compliance for retailers, and provides first-time shoplifters with education that enables offenders to avoid a criminal record and remain positive members of their communities. 

About NASP

The National Association for Shoplifting Prevention (NASP) is a private non-profit tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that specialized in working with consumers, teens and children who have shoplifted.  NASP conducts research and offers education, prevention and rehabilitation programs, in addition to self-help and support services for people caught shoplifting.  NASP’s unparalleled shoplifter research and ongoing collaboration with community stakeholders – from crime prevention to law enforcement, to retailers, to criminal and juvenile justice – has been the basis for its organizational activities and the foundation for its programs and services. NASP’s core programs, the Shoplifters Alternative Course (SA Course) for adults and the youth Educational Shoplifting Program (Y.E.S. Program) for juveniles are evidence-based and have been approved by thousands of criminal justice professionals and utilized in more than 2,000 jurisdictions across the United States.  NASP programs continue to deliver the lowest court-reported recidivism rates of 2.9% nationwide.