Sunday, February 25, 2024

Is Shoplifting Really Surging?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/briefing/shoplifting-data.html

Videos of extreme but rare crimes can go viral today. On social media, people post videos of looting flash mobs or thieves ramming cars into stores. “There are millions of property crimes a year,” said Jeff Asher of the research firm AH Datalytics. As a result, people can always find outlandish anecdotes, even if crime is down.

Conservative media has promoted these videos as evidence of disorder in liberal cities and under President Biden.

3 comments:

  1. Yes it is and liberals are desperate to twist statistics to deny it.
    The same liberals, remember, that told us the USSR was a wonderful place full of happy citizens.

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  2. Did a google search and it's an amazing coincidence. Those new outlets that assert that Israel is committing war crimes and possible genocide in Gaza also assert that shoplifting is done. For a better answer: https://nypost.com/2023/07/01/the-shoplifting-epidemic-taking-over-america/

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