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In Chicago there has been a dramatic drop off: the arrest rate for retail theft went from 43%-54% in 2016-2019 to 18% in 2021 and the number of cases brought to

• lupire 4y ago
  What is the cause of the arrest drop? Prosecutor policy, police strike, Covid masking and office closures confounding the operation of the law enforcement system, or something else?
  • HDThoreaun 4y ago
    As a Chicago resident I’d say it’s mostly “quite quitting” by cops. You never see them working anymore, and the people I’ve talked to about their experience with police basically all say that they never even showed up, and if they did they refused to even fill out a report. The union even officially called for work stoppages due to vaccine mandates.
  • nxm 4y ago
    Prosecutor policy results in police saying “what’s the point”?