In the first half of 2023, shoplifting reports were 16% higher than the first half of 2019. New York City saw a 44% increase in shoplifting complaints between 2021 and 2022. New York and Los Angeles saw the largest increases in shoplifting from 2019 to 2023, with more than 60% increases.
lol ok
you think they are just locking stuff up for fun?
https://counciloncj.org/is-shoplifting-up-or-down/
And yet the comment I replied to was "They fixed a problem that wasn’t real".
Incredibly scientific and thoroughly sourced lol.