In the Courtroom

ALTO advocates for retailers in retail crime cases, ensuring their concerns are represented and heard by investigators and prosecutors.

Advocating for retailers throughout the legal process

ALTO’s in-house legal teams create lasting change by facilitating communication between retailers, sharing information on repeat offenders, and providing legal follow up on commonly underreported retail incidents.

How our legal team supports stores

Advocate on behalf of retail clients in court, ensuring repeat offenders are held accountable for their actions, and providing thoughtful and thorough victim impact statements for sentencing

Collaborate with prosecution and law enforcement by gathering evidence, testimony, witness statements, and data to help build successful cases

Ease the burden of court appearances by representing victims and witnesses of retail crime in court

Speak with policymakers to make sure retailers’ voices are heard when crime and justice reform are on the docket

Build relationships with prosecutors to highlight the impact of retail crime in their community and push for appropriate legal action to be taken, especially for repeat offenses

Legal Results

92%

of retail crime cases supported by ALTO concluded with a favorable outcome in court

29%

of ALTO cases were granted alternative sentencing

11,000+

retail crime cases worked together by ALTO legal Teams & prosecutors nationwide in 2023

In 2023

ALTO nationwide teams delivered evidence to aid prosecutors and law enforcement in building retail crime cases more tan 16,500 times.

ALTO works with

more that 500 Government Agencies and 700 Police Departments in the US

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