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This article from May talks a bit more about the causes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2
by bryan0 5y ago
This article from May talks a bit more about the causes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-epidemic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...
Many people point to Prop 47 which “reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods are worth less than $950”
Some also point the finger at DA Chesa Boudin for his low “charging rates”: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Francisco-crime-statistics-recall-16268178.php https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Fra...
Basically if you shoplift in SF the benefits outweigh the costs.
- x0x0 5y agoThe stats seem to say shoplifting is not increasing in sf. Though that doesn't mean that any chain isn't experiencing something different. Or that the sf crazies aren't being even crazier post lockdown and causing more of the mentioned security incidents. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Is-shoplifting-rising-in-San-Francisco-Here-s-16272907.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Is-shoplifting-ris...
- gruez 5y ago>The Chronicle analyzed Police Department incident report data from January 2018 through April 2021. [...] The data shows that shoplifting rates dipped at the start of the pandemic, when many stores shut down, and have since recovered to just below pre-pandemic levels. Is sampling bias potentially at play here? If you know that calling the police wouldn't do anything, why would you bother reporting it?
- lazide 5y agoIt’s definitely at play here - the cops often don’t even show up, and the stores have stopped bothering to call. If you don’t record it, it isn’t happening, as it were.