Gangs are behind more theft from shops
was in no hurry. Seeing a pile of electric fans arranged near the front of the shop, on a busy street in Brixton, south London, he sauntered in, tucked one under his arm, and sauntered out. The cashier, fiddling with a broken self-checkout till, didn’t notice. If she had, it is unlikely she would have tried to stop him.
The reported statistics are less dramatic than they might at first appear: they are, more or less, back to pre-pandemic levels. Shoplifting dropped sharply when Britons were locked down. Yet the past decade has seen a gradual uptick in such crimes. And thePatchy data don’t reveal exactly who is swiping from shops, nor why. The cost of living crisis is often blamed. But anecdotal evidence, including from academics, suggests that plays only a small part.
A change to the law in 2014 may, unwittingly, have encouraged gangs to recruit shoplifters, while also spurring individuals to steal for themselves. It made shoplifting of goods worth £200 or less a summary offence, one that is tried in a magistrates’ court. That has probably discouraged police from investigating such crimes.
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