"The numbers" used in the article mostly come from the National Retail Federation, not the Po-po. There are two main sources of crime information in the US: th

"The numbers" used in the article mostly come from the National Retail Federation, not the Po-po. There are two main sources of crime information in the US: the FBI's reports of reported crimes, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics' surveys. (https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ntcm_2014.pdf https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/ntcm_2014.pdf) The latter do not depend on police reports. "The numbers" would have to climb quite a bit to get close to peaks in 1990 or so.