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The public data on shoplifting in San Francisco is so useless that one store accidentally reporting all shoplifting incidents for a brief period tripled the cit
by shuckles 4y ago
The public data on shoplifting in San Francisco is so useless that one store accidentally reporting all shoplifting incidents for a brief period tripled the citywide rate: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/shoplifting-data-Target-Walgreens-16647769.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/shoplifting-data-Targ....
- csande17 4y agoWow, I'm really surprised I hasn't heard about this before. Part of me wants to believe that the new reporting system accidentally refiled every historical report or something, but if that was the case, you'd think someone involved would have been willing to say that in response to a question.
- BryantD 4y agoThat doesn't explain the decline in shoplifting reports over the last decade. Presumably if all stores had been doing whatever that Target was doing (and I note that the store in question dropped back down to normal levels the following month), the overall rates would have been three times as high... and dropped at the same rate over the course of a decade.
- shuckles 4y agoTrying to interpret trends in garbage data is a fool’s errand, and the store dropped to “normal levels” presumably because it stopped reporting incidents.