Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft from stores

Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft... by desmosxxx on Friday September 03, 2021 @08:30PM (#28411001)

> overcrowding in the state prison system

and so our solution is to change the law, instead of dealing with whatever is causing people to steal in the first place.

Theft is a grey area between non-violence and violence, I'd rather we deal with the root causes rather than just making it less of a crime.

If murders were overcrowding prisons, i doubt many people would be calling for reduced murder sentencing (although im sure some would)

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Re:Retailers are spending millions to combat organized theft... by rayiner on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:25PM (#28411544)

The “root causes” of theft (and most crime) is social breakdown. It’s not poverty or need—or you’d expect far more crime in say India than in the US and you don’t actually see that.

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