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1938 April, William Peery, “Thank Rotary!”, in The Rotarian, page 52:
Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted, a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community, Negro Digest, 22,
Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc., etc.
2002 November 25, The New Yorker:
In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
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