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Violent crime has been consistently been dropping for decades. In certain areas petty crime has risen.
Times are getting tough, I expect petty crime like shoplifting food to increase.
I've never seen anyone shoplifting food.
And I never will.
The first blind man I've met on reddit. Hello.
Are you lost?
I was but I found my way back.
Also shoplifting items with high potential resale value.
Anecdotally, really just shoplifting in general.
I work in 911 dispatch, been there for about 7 years, so long enough to have a decent feel for how things have changed since before COVID.
And while I'm not keeping a personal tally, it definitely seems like over the last couple of years I've been getting a whole lot more calls about shit like people stealing a single red bull from a convenience store. (Yes, they call 911 for that sometimes, and we also answer a lot of the 10-digit non emergency lines, it all pretty much has to go through us one way or another, it's the same cops responding whether it's an emergency or not so at some point it has to end up with central dispatch)
We actually have a couple convenience stores with security guards now because of this.