This retail theft situation is an enormous broken window.
People think crime wins. And it does. There is a very noticeable increase in the amount of graffiti in the cities. A growing disorder and knowledge that the police will not enforce certain things. The police have rules *against* chasing criminals. They are so afraid of putting themselves and the public in danger, they won’t do their most important functions.
Leave them to themselves
I went to California for the first time last month thinking everything I saw online about California homeless crisis was mostly exaggerated. All I have to say is California is exactly how it’s shown online. Disgusting, wildly expensive and homeless crazy people everywhere.
I live in California and I hope that the penalties for property crimes get increased as soon as possible. But it’s absolutely sickening that there are people who want to use the problem with property crimes as a justification to increase drug crime penalties. That obsession with drug crimes is part of what got us into this mess in the first place but some people never learn.
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[It’s all fake](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/what-comes-after-retails-false-organized-crime-claim-110030437.html). They do this about every 10 years or so. It’s called a moral panic. They use it so they can offload their security costs to taxpayers and so they can make excuses for slowing profits to Wall Street.
If you saw these stories and thought they were real [you’ve been had](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0Bm_HfX-s).
This retail theft situation is an enormous broken window.
People think crime wins. And it does. There is a very noticeable increase in the amount of graffiti in the cities. A growing disorder and knowledge that the police will not enforce certain things. The police have rules *against* chasing criminals. They are so afraid of putting themselves and the public in danger, they won’t do their most important functions.
Leave them to themselves
I went to California for the first time last month thinking everything I saw online about California homeless crisis was mostly exaggerated. All I have to say is California is exactly how it’s shown online. Disgusting, wildly expensive and homeless crazy people everywhere.
It’s a work, sucker
[https://www.governing.com/community/debunking-the-myth-of-a-shoplifting-crisis](https://www.governing.com/community/debunking-the-myth-of-a-shoplifting-crisis)
[https://www.yahoo.com/news/retail-group-retracts-startling-claim-191415048.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/retail-group-retracts-startling-claim-191415048.html)
[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/target-blamed-theft-and-violence-for-9-store-closures-crime-is-higher-at-locations-it-kept-open-nearby/ar-AA1lJPqj](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/target-blamed-theft-and-violence-for-9-store-closures-crime-is-higher-at-locations-it-kept-open-nearby/ar-aa1ljpqj)
it was an idiotic idea to just let people steal.
I live in California and I hope that the penalties for property crimes get increased as soon as possible. But it’s absolutely sickening that there are people who want to use the problem with property crimes as a justification to increase drug crime penalties. That obsession with drug crimes is part of what got us into this mess in the first place but some people never learn.