you know what the issue here is don’t you. what you reckon doesn’t reflect reality. statistics does, and statistics agrees with me. not you,

I don’t know why we are so addicted to “what i reckon” thinking in this country, why it’s so ingrained into our culture. but it’s really dangerous and sad.

statistica has the level of shoplifting incidents returning back to pre-pandemic levels after obviously it dropped during pandemic. these are the normal levels. What has changed is the value of the goods. and that’s the value that’s always reported when people talk about the increases.