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Retail theft went down and the national retailers federation had to admit 5% not 50% of theft was from criminal gangs. This whole panic was concocted to close underperforming and unionized stores and the media bought it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/organized-shoplifting-retail-crime-theft-retraction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek0.cMux.iabRLNkE-vqu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I’ve been pointing out for years that the actual stats from the police even haven’t matched the panic in the media. In America (and much of the world), we’re at a near all-time low for violent crime and most other crime, so any tiny increase looks huge, as it did during the pandemic. We’re now reverting to the (new) norm.
@glennf The organized retail theft thing has been debunked many times. The podcast "If Books Could Kill" did a great epiosde about this in the past few months.
@glennf The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner from ‘99 opened my eyes to this media phenomenon. I’ve viewed crime reports differently ever since. Few people realize that violent crime was worse during the good old days. It’s been on a downward trend for decades.
@glennf truth