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Everon wins 2026 Security Sales & Integration SAMMY Award for Integrated Installation of the Year

Award-winning Robbins Brothers project recognizes Everon’s commercial security innovation, advanced integration capabilities, and operational excellence as a leading national integrator

Irving, TX. – Everon, LLC (“Everon” or “the Company”), a leading security integrator and premier provider of commercial security, video, fire and life safety solutions ranked the third-largest security company in the U.S. by SDM Magazine, received the prestigious Integrated Installation of the Year award at the 2026 Sales & Marketing (SAMMY) Awards, presented by Security Sales & Integration (SSI) magazine. The honor recognizes Everon’s innovative security installation at the new Robbins Brothers Fine Jewelers location in Pasadena, California.

For over 30 years, the SAMMY Awards have celebrated commercial security industry leaders that set the standard in sales and marketing excellence, technological innovation, and the execution of complex, high-impact security installations. The Integrated Installation of the Year honor recognizes Everon for its exceptional ability to combine advanced security technology, engineering expertise, and design into a unified security solution that protects both people and critical assets in a highly complex commercial environment.

“This honor is a powerful testament to what Everon has been able to achieve as a standalone integrator since GTCR’s investment,” said Don Young, Chief Executive Officer for Everon. “In a two-and-a-half-year period, we’ve strengthened our capabilities, added differentiating service offerings, expanded our expertise, and elevated the standard of operational excellence we can deliver for our customers. Winning the Integrated Installation of the Year award reflects not only the innovation and dedication of our team, but also the momentum we’re building as we continue to grow and redefine what’s possible for our customers.”

The award-winning project involved designing and integrating a modern security ecosystem capable of protecting Robbins Brothers’ high-value inventory, ensuring employee safety, and preserving the integrity of the historic building housing its new Pasadena location – all while maintaining the aesthetic central to the Robbins Brothers experience.

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'Turning Point in the Fight Against Retail Crime'
UK Retailers applaud new law but demand swift implementation

Retail industry responds to Crime and Policing Act becoming established law

The Crime and Policing Bill has finally received Royal Assent and is now established in law.

Measures outlined in the Bill include:

• The ‘effective immunity’ for shop theft offences under the value of £200 will be scrapped

• Assaulting a shop worker will become a separate offence

• Police will no longer need to apply for a warrant to search a premises where stolen goods have been electronically located

• Increased powers to crack down on repeat antisocial behaviour offenders, with new Respect

• Orders banning those prolific offenders from town centres

• Expanding police powers to drug test more suspects on arrest, helping direct more drug users into treatment and away from illegal drugs

• Creating a new criminal offence of possessing a bladed article with the intent to cause harm

Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said: “The new Crime and Policing Act is a long-overdue turning point in the fight against retail crime. With 1,600 incidents of violence and abuse every single day and 5.5 million thefts a year, the extraordinary levels of retail crime cannot be accepted as simply part of the job.

“The BRC, alongside others, have campaigned relentlessly for these changes. Stronger laws on assault and theft will send a clear warning to would-be offenders, but laws alone won’t keep retail workers safe. What matters now is consistent, visible police enforcement so colleagues can genuinely feel safe and protected at work.

“Implementation must be swift: the police need to use the full extent of these powers, while stepping up their presence in stores, so that anyone assaulting our colleagues or stealing from stores faces the full force of the law.”

As a trade organisation representing more than 8,000 smaller retailers, the Fed said it has relayed to politicians and police and crime commissioners time and time again that retail crime, including violence, theft and harassment, are of deep concern its members – more so now than ever. talkingretail.com


Will the U.S. Pass a Federal ORC Law Next?
Industry coalition urges DOJ to act as cargo theft and organized retail crime surge nationwide
With cargo theft and organized retail crime (ORC) continuing to escalate, a group of freight, retail, and manufacturing stakeholders has called on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to take action through congressionally mandated measures.

In a letter to Blanche, the group of 24 stakeholders—including the American Trucking Associations, Association of American Railroads, Intermodal Association of North America, National Retail Federation, DHL, and UPS—emphasized the “urgent need” for DOJ to fully implement funding provided by Congress in the FY2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Act. The funding would support the establishment of dedicated special prosecutors focused on combating supply chain fraud, organized retail crime, and related financial schemes such as gift card fraud.

The stakeholders outlined several ways the funding could help curb cargo theft and ORC activity:

• Develop specialized expertise in complex cargo theft, ORC, and related financial fraud cases;

• Strengthen coordination with federal partners such as Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), as well as state and local law enforcement and prosecutors;

• Establish a prosecutorial model that can be replicated nationwide; and

• Deter increasingly sophisticated criminal enterprises exploiting the supply chain

In January, the House Judiciary Committee advanced H.R. 2853, the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025 (CORCA), through markup.

The legislation was introduced in April 2025 by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who also serves as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, and Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio). It has bipartisan support and aims to strengthen the nation’s response to organized retail crime involving the theft of goods for resale through physical and online marketplaces. logisticsmgmt.com


Root Causes of Shoplifting?
Shoplifters aren’t just bad to the bone or mums stealing nappies. The truth is more complex

Speaking to career thieves as part of my research, I learned that childhood abuse, a life in care and little education has led them to this place

From March 2024 to March 2025, there were 530,643 offences recorded in England and Wales. This is a 20% rise on the previous year and the highest figure since current police recording practices began in 2003.

Retail workers are suffering on the frontline; in its 2026 crime survey, the British Retail Consortium found that theft was “a major trigger for violence and abuse of staff”, leading the trade union for retail workers to warn that “shoplifting is not a victimless crime”. Meanwhile, the claim that Britain’s shoplifting “epidemic” symbolises a wider descent into “lawlessness” has become a familiar one in the media.

By dividing people who steal into the categories of “justified” (or at least, excusable) and “wrong’uns”, we are falling into a long-recognised criminological fallacy known as the “victim/offender binary”. We tend to view people as one or the other and struggle to understand that, empirically, people are more likely to be both – those who commit crimes are much more likely to be victims too.

The binary is usually applied to interpersonal harm, eg assault and robbery, but we can also think about the harms caused by institutions and society in general. When we do this, Ryan and co’s behaviour starts to make sense and maybe even provoke sympathy.

All of the prolific thieves I met began life in violent family homes, in one case involving the murder of a parent. Their childhoods were characterised by fear, flux and parental substance abuse. Most went into what we misleadingly call the “care” system as young children. Sexual and physical abuse are repeated themes, as is a lack of formal education. They have little, and often no, experience of conventional work. theguardian.com


Perception vs. Reality
Understanding Crime Concerns in the United States
While partisan rhetoric has long dominated the nation’s public safety discourse, Americans have been left to wonder: Is crime actually going up or going down? If it’s dropping, why do so many people believe it isn’t, or remain afraid of becoming a victim?

This report uses data from the Gallup Social Survey to examine what factors aside from crime itself, such as the racial diversity of one’s neighborhood and feelings of financial optimism, may influence perceptions of crime and fear of crime. It also explores how those perceptions and fears have changed over time, with some data dating back to 1965, and advances prior research with new findings on how political ideology shapes crime concerns.

Key Takeaways

• Changes in national perceptions and fear of crime have not aligned with shifts in overall national crime rates in most years since the mid-1960s, but crime concerns have responded to major shifts in the homicide rate.

• Property crime rates and household victimization exert more influence on crime concerns than violent crime rates.

• Political partisanship does not significantly account for people’s fear of crime or perception of crime levels once all variables, such as county-level crime rates, respondent characteristics (e.g., age, race), and neighborhood characteristics (e.g., poverty), are included in research models. On average, however, people who are more politically conservative believe crime is higher and are more fearful of it.

• Higher presidential approval ratings correlate with the perception that crime is the same or lower than the prior year, both nationally and locally. The same is true for congressional approval ratings.

• People with a more optimistic financial outlook generally believe crime rates are stable or dropping and are less afraid to walk alone at night.

• An analysis of these political and economic factors revealed that their effects on crime perceptions and fears have generally been consistent over time.

• Neighborhood characteristics such as poverty and the share of population under 18 seem to explain the likelihood of being afraid of crime. But they do not generally appear to influence perceptions that national or local crime is higher than the prior year. counciloncj.org