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Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing by fighterpilot on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:55AM (#27708217)
I hear this repeated everywhere, but do you have any studies or numbers that back this up?

All I could find is this survey of ~40000 shoplifters. Although there's probably a bit of selection bias, they left out homeless people for example.

"However, it [shoplifting] was more common among those with higher education and income, suggesting that financial considerations are unlikely to be the main motivator for shoplifting in most cases."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104590/

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Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing by f6v on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:08AM (#27708276)
Shoplifting and armed robbery are very different crimes.
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Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing by akomtu on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:42AM (#27708465)
Here's comprehensive crime stats from FBI for year 2019:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

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