Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senior Tutor expressed concern that the nature of the shoplifters has changed. In past years, he said, they had usually been students with academic or family problems who seemed to be "calling out for help." This year, some students have explained their shoplifting by saying they "had heard the Coop was an 'easy mark,'" he said...
...Coop Procedure
...Coop usually has three security guards, one uniformed and two in plain clothes, on duty. According to Zavelle, when one of these guards sees a suspected shoplifter, he keeps him under surveillance and, because the shoplifter law is a question of intent to steal, usually does not stop the offender until he has passed an area where he should have paid for the merchandise he has taken...
...guard, an off-duty policeman, then takes the suspect to an office on the second floor of the Coop where, with no one else present, he interrogates him and asks him to sign a form which says in part, "When I took the above property, I did so with the intent to appropriate it to my own use, without intending to pay for it. . I make this admission after having been advised that I need make no statement." After the suspect has agreed to sign the statement, the guard brings in an officer of the Coop to witness...
...Zavelle said that the verbal interrogation is usually "terrifying" for the shoplifter. After repeated questioning, students often admit that they have stolen other items from the Coop. With the student's permission or with a search warrant, a Coop official sometimes goes on to search an offending student's room...