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This points more towards organized crime rings targeting stores, taking large amounts of the same popular items, then reselling them on eBay or Amazon. If you have a smallish number of people doing a largish number of crimes, this won't be reflected in incarceration statistics (particularly if the resellers rarely get caught).

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Even the organized crime ring panic was made up. The data presented to congress was completely wrong and various organizations had to publicly eat crow about it.

"This points more towards" -- you have any source towards this? :)

Why selectively put this onus on the person you've responded to and not the person at the top of this thread?

Um. The same could be said to you? I don't see what your point is.

I know that in recent years Target has announced that they were investigating, in partnership with local and federal law enforcement, organized theft rings. It was publicly reported on here in Minneapolis.

Many, many of those claims were found to be significantly exaggerated. It bothers me immensely that people still talk about this nonsense.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-ret...

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