Stores have been spending hundreds of thousands per year on new armed security because shoplifting is falling? Sure... checks out.
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Replying to @sf_wallace @ChatfieldKate and
In the US, people frequently believe crime is getting worse despite crime dropping dramatically Why wouldn't already paranoid store owners feel the same way? Business people are frequently just straight up wrong about things Or maybe it's the fear of mass shootings?
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Replying to @TArchiving @sf_wallace and
Because store owners have direct access to the correct information. Walgreens isn't closing stores because they're paranoid.
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Replying to @lukthomp @TArchiving and
Here's a rule: if you really want police protection, you report crimes. If it's something you just shrug off, you don't. Fact is, apples to apples, shoplifting complaints have steadily declined for years. It's the surgies burden to show exactly why that data is wrong and 1/
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Replying to @DavidLewis61 @lukthomp and
produce some actual, verifiable contrary data. I'm just seeing rank speculation or anecdote substituting for real data. (E.g., prove that shop owners are buying more sophisticated anti-theft devices AND that they're doing it because of a rise in losses, and not because it 2/
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Replying to @DavidLewis61 @lukthomp and
saves them money even given the previous, historically low, rates of theft, which doubtless caused some losses. I mean, even in the recent past, lots of money has been spent on anti-theft devices as better ones become available, even without a surge. Surgies must PROVE such 3/
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Sorry, I don't see much value in arguing with children, and no adult would use a dismissive term like "surgies" in a discussion like this.
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