It’s entirely believable to me that retail theft levels are the same or possibly lower and that the problem is simply more visible.
Tinfoil hat on, but I did watch the Andrew Callahan (canceled, I know) video about Kensington in Philadelphia. He talks to locals there who (probably correctly) claim that concentrated visible poverty is basically modern day blockbusting, the old process by which real-estate speculators would move a single black family into a white neighborhood in order to spark those families to sell their land to the same developers.
Obviously the end goal of visible crime is to increase support for police after BLM. Whether this is orchestrated by the cops, the politicians, or both, is a question for the reader.
It’s entirely believable to me that retail theft levels are the same or possibly lower and that the problem is simply more visible.
Tinfoil hat on, but I did watch the Andrew Callahan (canceled, I know) video about Kensington in Philadelphia. He talks to locals there who (probably correctly) claim that concentrated visible poverty is basically modern day blockbusting, the old process by which real-estate speculators would move a single black family into a white neighborhood in order to spark those families to sell their land to the same developers.
Obviously the end goal of visible crime is to increase support for police after BLM. Whether this is orchestrated by the cops, the politicians, or both, is a question for the reader.