It’s still theft, sure. The point of the article is to contrast the police and lawmakers reaction based on wrong data. It’s a convenient story for police budget

It’s still theft, sure. The point of the article is to contrast the police and lawmakers reaction based on wrong data. It’s a convenient story for police budgets and fear based politicians, and also much ado about nothing. Edit: not that the thefts are nothing, but there is no surge, increase, things are not getting worse, thieves are not bolder, etc…