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>There's significantly less shoplifting now on average than there was in the '80s or '90s.

possibly, but are you seriously comparing now to the height of the crack epidemic in the US?

The rates in 2023 were 66% of what they were in 2010. That decline has not been driven by reduction in crack usage.

Wasn't 2010 the year when you had to have something like a PhD and 20 references to get a job flipping burgers at McDonalds? That's the worst economic year I can recall in my life, or maybe it was 2009.

That's irrelevant or we'd see a blip upward around that time. Instead, the trend has been clear and almost entirely monotonic.

https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/191247/reported-larceny-t...

Thanks, pretty shocking. Really puts a hole in the theory that people stealing out of 'necessity' is a dominating factor.

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