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Re:Target finally explains why nearly all its SF stores have... by gruez on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:05PM (#27719032)
>The Chronicle analyzed Police Department incident report data from January 2018 through April 2021. [...] The data shows that shoplifting rates dipped at the start of the pandemic, when many stores shut down, and have since recovered to just below pre-pandemic levels.

Is sampling bias potentially at play here? If you know that calling the police wouldn't do anything, why would you bother reporting it?

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Re:Target finally explains why nearly all its SF stores have... by lazide on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:56PM (#27719239)
It’s definitely at play here - the cops often don’t even show up, and the stores have stopped bothering to call.

If you don’t record it, it isn’t happening, as it were.

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