Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime LOS ANGELES: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.

But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat.

913: A man allegedly targeted elderly people and stole from their homes — including one incident in which the victim was aged 95.

And he was allegedly inside various other sheltered housing homes with the intent to steal from within.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.