Quote:
Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I think you’ll find data shows violent young men with poor self-control and chaotic home lives carry out most thefts. Typically poor or working-class. But it’s not as though they use the money to pay rent or buy groceries for their grandmothers. They spend it on the things aggressive young men with cash in their pocket spend it on (drugs, booze, oakleys) And in the case of organized shoplifting rings, the people running them certainly aren’t living off Kraft dinner.
|
I think you’re making a lot of assumptions here but to be fair you could very well be right in some or even all cases(I don’t presently have the data to make that determination). With that being said I think you’d agree that in order to determine what is the best approach to addressing the issue of theft we need to better understand what is contributing to the spike. There’s going to be very different solutions necessary for a person who can’t afford to eat who is stealing food vs an organized crime ring that is robbing stores and re-selling the merchandise.