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Percent of shoplifting cases in SF that ended in arrest, 2003 to 2021
- actuallyalys 5y agoThis thread seems to equivocate between arresting people for a crime and that thing being considered a crime. Obviously, changes in laws can either influence public opinion, be a sign of changing public opinion, or both, but the correlation is hardly one-to-one. Very few people consider it okay to cheat on a spouse[0] despite it not being criminalized. Reading articles about the surge, I'm seeing statements from police and company spokespeople but not hard numbers. Larceny as a whole appears to be down from one source [1], but up according to another [2]. [0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1681/moral-issues.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/1681/moral-issues.aspx [1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/San-Francisco-s-crime-rates-shifted-16071268.php#photo-20818085 https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/San-Francisco-s-cr... [2]: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1404852026882752516 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/14048520268827525...
- sschueller 5y agoIn an odd twist I see this being beneficial to Amazon and co which do not have the issue of shoplifting. I would also not be surprised if Amazon and co were for this kind of decriminalization. This is yet another burden on retail stores which online businesses do not have.
- aluminum96 5y agoThe infographic appears to contain a major factual error: "prop 14" should be "prop 47." That doesn't inspire confidence in the rest of the data or its presentation.