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Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing by zozbot234 on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:56AM (#27710312)
> Dollar stores are to blame for shootings and crime in their vicinity or the store itself because they're understaffed and messy?

Sounds like the old broken windows theory, where a "messy" neighborhood sends undesirable signals about how much the people in it care for the public benefit. But a dollar store is not a neighborhood that's collectively taken care of; it's literally just a store.

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Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing by toomanybeersies on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:48AM (#27710805)
The thesis of the article is literally broken windows theory.

I'm amazed that they managed to write several thousand words on the topic, while managing to avoid using the words "broken windows".

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Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing by ineedasername on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:44AM (#27712155)
And it's not even the stores themselves: They were opened in neighborhoods with "broken windows", they didn't create them. Lots of stores are messy.

I have a few near me in my average suburban neighborhood and I've never heard of any shooting, and a search of local crime blotters and newspapers doesn't turn up anything either. In the entire state I found roughly 1 robber per year over the past few years. Convenience stores with many fewer locations get hit more than that, but I don't think they cause violent crime.

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