we're all up all "nightline" with james lowman. >> reporter: this ultra conservative rhetoric now seepingut to the fringes and into the mainstream, following the migration crisis has been a resurgence if right wing thought. >> this is the culture we have here. we don't have an islam culture here. >> reporter: to packed stadiums in france, scrambling to regain what their country is losing. the traditional identity, culture, their heritage. that message amplified with a click of a button, when president trump tweeted a string of inflammatory videos, purporting to show violence committed by muslims. the three videos originally shared by an anti-islam group called britain first. but condemnation came swiftly. >> britain first is a hateful organization. >> reporter: and it turned out the attacker in this video wasn't a muslim immigrant at all but was double. yet the white house doubled down, denying the president was pushing anti-muslim propaganda. >> look, i'm not talking about the nature of the video. i think you're focussing on the wrong thing. >> reporter: instead, making a case for nation

joining me now is james lowman from the association of convenience stores. thank you forjoining us.ion? there are two different issues. the £200 threshold, many police forces are saying they will not go out and investigate crimes of that level of theft. the concern is sending the message to criminals could have the effect where they are cynically saying we will steal up to that amount and we know the police will not come out. the separate issueis will not come out. the separate issue is that if someone is caught stealing goods up to that outcome they can be dealt with by a fixed penalty notice. you get a ticket and you can pay that. those should not be used for repeat offenders or people with drug and alcohol problems not when there are exacerbating circumstances such as violence and threats, but often they are misused in those circumstances and often they are not paid. these things together combined to make our members, retailers, feel exposed to shop theft. also not intervening with people committing shop theft early enough maybe they graduate to other crimes and if we talk about

a little earlier, james lowman from the association of convenience stores told me that ineffective enforcementce and crime commissioners and police forces who say we're not going to go out and investigate crimes, at that level of theft. the concern is that sending that message to criminals could be having this effect where they are very cynically saying, "w will steal up to that amount and we know the police won't come out". "we will steal up to that amount and we know the police won't come out". there's a separate issue which is linked to that which is if someone is caught stealing goods up to that amount, they can be dealt with through a fixed penalty notice. so, you get a ticket for that, essentially and then you can pay that. those shouldn't be used for repeat offenders, they shouldn't be used for people with drug and alcohol problems. they shouldn't be used when there is any exacerbating circumstances like any violence or threats around that incident. but too often they are used and they are used in those circumstances. and too often, they're not paid. these two things together are combin