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Coordinate with the Director of Athletics and Assistant Director of Athletics Giving major athletics fundraising efforts, including golf tournaments or other initiatives and events. With the Director of Athletics and Assistant Director of Athletics Giving, develop a comprehensive fundraising plan for the athletics department and individual teams. Generally improve the understanding among alumni athletes of the college’s need for financial support and focus appropriate actions and attentions on those who can provide annual, major and planned gifts.
Reporting rates in the previous CVS years relate to reporting of the most recent incident only. For burglary, attempted burglary and robbery, these were also fairly well reported in 2018 (at 82%, 62% and 70% respectively). The British Retail Consortium Crime Survey 2021 estimated that crime against member retailers cost the industry £1.3 billion in the year ending March 2020, the year before the pandemic, and that £935 million of this was attributed to customer theft. Questions on costs of items stolen in incidents of theft were removed from the 2021 CVS as respondents were often only able to provide very rough estimates. In the 2018 CVS bulletin, it was estimated that the median total costs of all incidents per victim in the 12 months prior to interview was £626, compared with £237 in the 2012 CVS, and £500 in the 2017 CVS.
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In the period between April 2020 and March 2021, one third of small independent retailers (33%) experienced crime, compared with 45% of all other retail businesses. The British Retail Consortium Crime Survey 2021 also reported on members views of the police response to retail crime in the year ending March 2020, the year before the pandemic. This showed an improvement on the previous year, with 40% rating it as fair or good, compared with 30% in the previous year and 20% the year before. Respondents were asked for their perception of the police response to all the crimes staff reported between April 2020 to March 2021.
As above, premises may choose to install such measures in response to previous victimisation, or the perceived threat of crime in the location in which the premises is sited. A selection of prevention measures has been matched to the crime types they are expected to prevent, and this is presented below. This section presents additional findings from the Violence and Assaults module of the 2021 CVS. Only respondents that said their premise had experienced assaults and threats, robbery , or both of these crime types are included. In addition, as outlined in Section 1, the two large retailers that provided additional data from their Head Offices for 145 premises that were included in the main sample, both provided data for this section of the questionnaire.
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Respondents who said that staff had reported incidents to the police were also asked how often incidents had been reported in the last year. Around half (53%) said that every or most incidents that their premises had experienced had been reported to the police, whereas a quarter (25%) said that staff rarely or never reported any incident during that period. Theft by employees had a low prevalence rate in the 2021 CVS (2%) but such incidents were the most likely to be reported to the police (98%). This is likely due to the nature of these crimes representing a breach of trust for the employer and therefore treated as a serious incident. Due to changes in the crime reference period, estimates from this year’s survey cannot be directly compared with those from previous years.
Fewer than half of likely voters say the outcome of each of these state propositions is very important to them. Today, 21 percent of likely voters say the outcome of Prop 26 is very important, 31 percent say the outcome of Prop 27 is very important, and 42 percent say the outcome of Prop 30 is very important. The shares saying the outcomes are very important to them have remained similar to a month ago for Prop 27 (29%) and Prop 30 (42%). Today, when it comes to the importance of the outcome of Prop 26, one in four or fewer across partisan groups say it is very important to them. About one in three across partisan groups say the outcome of Prop 27 is very important to them. Fewer than half across partisan groups say the outcome of Prop 30 is very important to them.
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Respondents at premises that had experienced any crime in the period between April 2020 to March 2021 were also asked whether or not staff had reported any incidents to the police. As seen in previous years, the CVS showed considerable variation by the type of offence (Figure 7.1). Respondents in this half of the sample were asked whether or not they had a range of crime prevention measures in place at their premises. The other half of the respondents were asked about their attitudes to crime and the police .
Larger retailers were more likely to experience moderate to severe financial impacts than small retailers (63% of large retailers, 50% of medium-sized retailers and 26% of small retailers (Table 5.1). The reverse was seen with wholesalers, where small wholesalers were more likely to experience moderate to severe financial impacts than larger wholesalers (35% of small wholesalers compared with 22% of medium to large sized wholesalers) (Table 5.2). After theft by customers it was the second most negatively impacting crime, as reported by 13% of premises . In the British Retail Consortium Crime Survey, which reported on data for the year ending March 2020 , members were asked about the three most significant threats for their business over the next two years. Almost seven in ten (69%) premises identified violence against staff as the main threat, with nearly nine in ten (88%) identifying it as one of the top three threats.
As such, data are not directly comparable to those from previous years; nor will they be comparable with those collected in future surveys . The 2021 Commercial Victimisation Survey estimated that 38% of business premises in the Wholesale and retail sector in England and Wales had been a victim of crime between April 2020 and March 2021. This is similar to the 2018 prevalence rate (40%), though lower than the 2012 prevalence rate (53%). Cell phone interviews were conducted using a computer-generated random sample of cell phone numbers. Additionally, we utilized a registration-based sample of cell phone numbers for adults who are registered to vote in California.
For retail premises with 50 or more employees, 66% experienced theft by customers compared with 21% of retail premises with 1 to 9 employees. For retail premises with 50 or more employees, 45% reported that they had experienced this crime type, compared with 9% of those with 1 to 9 employees. As reported in Section 2, assaults and threats continue to be one of the most prevalent types of crime experienced by business premises in the Wholesale and retail sector (12% of premises). The 2018 CVS estimated that there were 1,600 incidents of assaults and threats per 1,000 premises in 2018, which continued the rising trend seen since the 2016 CVS .
Respondents that confirmed experiencing a crime at their premises were then asked how frequently they experienced such victimisation. Theft by customers was one of the most commonly experienced crime types by small independent retailers (by 21%). However, respondents at the majority (63%) of premises that experienced theft by customers reported that such incidents occurred only once or several times per year. Focusing on the retail sector, one of the greatest differences in the rate of crime by business size was seen in theft by customers.
Today, overwhelming majorities of partisans support their party’s candidate, while independents are divided (50% Democrat/lean Democrat, 44% Republican/lean Republican). Democratic candidates are preferred by a 26-point margin in Democratic-held districts, while Republican candidates are preferred by a 23-point margin in Republican-held districts. In the ten competitive California districts as defined by the Cook Political Report, the Democratic candidate is preferred by a 22-point margin (54% to 32%). With persistent inflation and concerns about a possible recession in the future, an overwhelming majority of Californians believe the US economy is in not so good (43% adults, 40% likely voters) or poor (33% adults, 36% likely voters) shape. About a quarter of adults (3% excellent, 20% good) and likely voters (2% excellent, 23% good) feel positively about the national economy.
The findings from the 2021 Commercial Victimisation Survey are drawn from 2,284 interviews conducted with respondents from premises in the Wholesale and retail sector about their experience of a range of crime types between April 2020 to March 2021. Those who reported having been a victim of crime were asked how frequently they had experienced any of the types of crimes they had mentioned. One of the key changes made to the questionnaire was with the incidence data questions being replaced by frequency of crime questions. It was felt that the previous incidence data had spurious accuracy being based often on very rough estimates provided by respondents. The frequency data was thought to provide a more discriminating measure of the impact of crime against businesses. Additionally, questions were added to collect Covid-19 related data, including around whether respondents perceived crime levels to have increased, decreased or stayed the same since the start of the pandemic.
