It's not an accident that the cops don't stop this...crime grows wherever law enforcement stops, and they's been playing this game for hundreds of years.
If they are comfortable stealing on camera, expect worse there.
This video does nothing to support that crimes are no longer being reported at any rate differently than prior years.
For a greater picture check out unemployment, unfilled municipal employment, homelessness. For extra credit check out the ever increasing number of citations for squatting and trespassing.
How do you know? Law enforcement figures, filtered and spun by your preferred media?
That said, the number of cops were need to prevent stochastic thefts like this is far, far too many. Cops are not the answer here, fixing the reasons people turn to crime is.