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The thesis of the article is literally broken windows theory. I'm amazed that they managed to write several thousand words on the topic, while managing to avoi

• ineedasername 5y ago
  And it's not even the stores themselves: They were opened in neighborhoods with "broken windows", they didn't create them. Lots of stores are messy. I have a few near me in my average suburban neighborhood and I've never heard of any shooting, and a search of local crime blotters and newspapers doesn't turn up anything either. In the entire state I found roughly 1 robber per year over the past few years. Convenience stores with many fewer locations get hit more than that, but I don't think they cause violent crime.