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But shoplifting is different from organized smash-and-grab gangs; different causes, different solutions. Conflating all retail theft is simply misleading.

• SllX 3y ago
  > But shoplifting is different from organized smash-and-grab gangs Correct and irrelevant: they are both forms of theft. > different causes, different solutions. Different motivations is more accurate. There also isn’t a “solution” per se, but suppression tactics do exist if you have both a PD and a DA worth a damn. > Conflating all retail theft is simply misleading. I didn’t. I pointed out the obvious: theft is theft. This is a commonality between “shoplifting” and “smash and grab”. The first term downplays the violence against the storeowners by people taking their stuff (cuz it could be worse, armed robbery is also a form of theft so as much as I detest softening euphemisms, the distinction isn’t useless) and the other paints a more violent and organized picture of people taking their stuff, but ultimately the act that both describe is theft. Either way, they are criminal activities that ought to be suppressed. We shouldn’t be tolerant to thieves.