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Cart crackdown

“‘We’ll be targeting downtown again,’ says Officer Steve Turner. He and Detective Melvin Lucas sit in front of a dry-erase board where there’s a sketch of the stolen merchandise they hope to recover today. There, amid more white space than on a supermodel’s grocery list, is a drawing of a shopping cart in green marker. Next to the doodle, someone has written a warning: ‘Driver Beware.’ ‘The main purpose of this program is to get shopping carts off the street,’ Turner says.” (Use BugMeNot to login.)