Target blamed theft and violence when it closed 9 stores in New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland, but crime is worse at locations it kept open nearby.

Some of those locations were even in high income areas where the police are well funded, so even that possible explanation falls short.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    To give the news media more "crime bad" stories for scaring white suburban boomers.