TagCrime

December 23, 2022

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Violent crime has halted a decade-long decline in incarceration, threatening reformers’ progress.
Strategies to reduce violence include better policing, expanding Medicaid, raising taxes on alcohol, street outreach, restoring abandoned housing, and reducing access to firearms.
Reducing violence would benefit everyone and re-energize progress towards a more reasonable and equitable criminal justice system.

Click HERE for original. Published December 22, 2022

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Walmart claims low prices require long prison terms [Judd Legum & Tesnim Zekeria, Popular Information]

December 13, 2022

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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon claims that the retailer may have to raise prices or close stores due to insufficiently aggressive prosecution of retail theft.
Publicly available data contradicts McMillon’s claims, with the number of shoplifting offenses dropping 46 percent between 2019 and 2021.
Retailers have spent millions opposing changes to felony theft thresholds, but data shows that raising the threshold does not increase shoplifting.
Most shoplifters are not making a calculation about the potential legal consequences, and are instead driven by addiction.

Click HERE for original. Published December 13, 2022

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