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You have data showing decreasing prosecution rates for such crimes, or is this selective reporting of what a few DAs (of the many thousands in this country) sai

• gruez 3y ago
  So if you're being held up at gunpoint, what's going to be your response? "Well ackshually the chances of being robbed is less than 0.1% per year, so the idea that I'm being victimized is a right-wing meme that has very little basis in reality"? The fact that DAs in Mississippi are oppressing shoplifters is cold comfort to a storeowner in NY, LA, Dallas, St. Louis[1], SF[2], or Portland[3]. And that's just the jurisdictions I could turn up in a 2 minute google search. [1] https://www.apainc.org/choosing-not-to-prosecute-low-level-crimes-may-reduce-future-crime-research-finds/ https://www.apainc.org/choosing-not-to-prosecute-low-level-c... [2] https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/data-shows-chesa-boudin-prosecutes-fewer-shoplifters-than-predecessor/article_7dbc7d85-cde9-59d9-8f23-7b240ee6f26d.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/data-shows-chesa-boudin-... [3] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/multnomah-da-shoplifting-theft-prosecution/283-fd54e0dc-0a01-462b-a0af-1432955aa6e7 https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/multnomah-d...