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Criminals no longer have to go into the store to steal something, they just wait for you to leave the store and fetch it out of your hands.
by latchkey 4y ago
Criminals no longer have to go into the store to steal something, they just wait for you to leave the store and fetch it out of your hands.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoYep. It would suck to live in a "gun-free" state, because then customers are easy prey. The workaround for that would be to do geofenced location activation where a phone app is required to do the activation from a pre-selected location at purchase checkout time. Also when one source dries up, criminality shifts: more porch pirating. I suspect the epidemic of drug addiction and "K"-shaped recovery not working for those in semi-/less-skilled industries are moving the needle towards criminality.
- vineyardmike 4y ago> It would suck to live in a "gun-free" state, because then customers are easy prey I feel like no one should get shot in a Lowe’s parking lot for stealing a drill. It seems a bit excessive. > I suspect the epidemic of drug addiction and "K"-shaped recovery not working for those in semi-/less-skilled industries are moving the needle towards criminality. I don’t know about drugs, but I think the low-skilled-worker stagnation is well documented. The numbers don’t always back up a growth in retail crime though. It’s still probably something that society should take seriously though. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-15/organized-retail-theft-crime-rate https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-15/organized-... https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/shoplifting-holiday-theft-panic/621108/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/shoplifti...