Several years ago, when my wife was a new immigrant from a country that has suffered under totalitarianism, unknowingly put a pair of $10 shoes into her purse, which she put into her cart (a practice I had warned her of), at Target. 2 hours later, after spending $150 at the store, she was apprehended by security, separated from me, and was escorted into Target's interrogation room by 5 off-duty cops who flashed their badges at me and swore at me when I demanded to accompany her. They told me that since she didn't deny it or make a fuss, she obviously intended to steal the shoes.

Her reaction, having grow up in a place where you admit whatever you're accused of to save your neck, was just to say, "yes, I did whatever you say I did, please let me go." A month later Target sent us a ill for $500 to "recover their costs for the cvil action." I'll never shop at the Target on Peterson Ave. in Chicago again.