Fracht theft moves into the focus, while the congress thinks how to combat organized retail crimes

During a hearing from the Senate judicial officer, who concentrated on organized retail crimes on Tuesday, freight theft was a departure from the previous focus on the shop theft and smash and grave based in the store.

“This threat has developed into our supply chains and revealed significant weak points,” said the chairman of the Chuck Grassley Committee, Republican of Iowa, in his opening speeches, citing 11 accused, “almost half a million dollars worth almost half a million dollar from Nike shoes” from one train “.

Legislators and witnesses described equally weak points of the supply chain, which led to losses that not only affect companies but also consumers and, in some cases, finance criminal activities and abroad.

As with other measurements of the problem of the problem, the numbers swallow around with inaccurate procurement.

Last year, freight theft “Historical History” reached 27%compared to the previous year, “with estimated losses of more than 1 billion US dollars” and, according to David Glawe, President and CEO of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, by another 22%in 2025. “Other estimates indicate that freight losses can reach up to 35 billion US dollars annually,” he said too.

Donna Lemm, Chief Strategy Officer of the Freight Company IMC Logistics, also informed the committee that “freight theft is robbed of our supply chain of USA 35 billion US dollars a year”. This number, which is also cited by the American Trucking Associations, was previously attributed to the Department of Homeland Security. In a report by the DHS website and the US immigration and customs authority, it states that “it is estimated that freight theft is $ 15 to $ 35 billion a year”, but does not provide any source. DHS gave no request for further information about the source of this figures or its surroundings.

The National Retail Federation, which in 2023 has postponed a widespread statistics on the financial effects of organized retail crime by e -mail NICB as well as ATA, Association of American Railroads and Cargonet for freight theft statistics.

The AAR estimates that large railways cost more than 100 million US dollars last year. Cargonet has 3,625 in the USA and Canada, at various points in the supply chain, an increase of 27% compared to the previous year.

Similar to the situation of organized retail break, inaccurate data can undermine the efforts to combat freight theft. Data acquisition practices in this area “Missing empirical evaluation and use” according to a study published in March by the Journal of Applied Security Research. Note the authors Ronald Burns from Texas Christian University and Charles Crawford from Western Michigan University

This is something that will be re-introduced by the proposed laws that were reintroduced in the US Senate and in the House of Representatives in April. According to Sen. Grassley's declaration of opening, the legislation provides for the “collaborative investigation” in federal and other jurisdiction.

“We don't know where to report. We need a centralized place to report,” said Lemm. “I explained the incident in St. Louis, where we basically had that [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] Call us … It is this ability to combine the points – locally, state and federal – that we do not have today. “