Stolen Headlines

“A year ago, America’s stores declared a shoplifting epidemic. They closed stores in major cities, hired extra security, locked up key merchandise and declared big losses in their financial statements. This year, retailers are telling a very different story — or no story at all. It’s as if the shoplifting crisis suddenly vanished.” Or maybe it didn’t entirely exist at all. America’s stores are winning the war on shoplifting.

+ Shoplifting is down, violent crime is down. But you wouldn’t know that if you listened to Trump or Elon’s Musk-a-phone. The Atlantic (Gift Article): Trump’s New Big Lie. “The goal is not to earnestly correct the record on crime but to spread an atmosphere of fear and paranoia.”