You got that right. The vast majority of shopliftings are in search of funds for drugs. You know who is buying the shoplifted items?
Muslim quickie mart operators who then jack up the price for their own stores OR they sell it out on tables set up right in the hood road side.
Copper theft was unheard off until the heroin craze we are going through. Now you don’t dare build a house without extra thought of protecting the copper pre-finishing and marking so scrappers (presumably) won’t take it.
People are dying left and right because heroin is being cut with Fentanyl and sometimes carfentanil. The body count is so high here in St. Louis County that they are now using mobile morgues to store the bodies. These mobile morgues are meant for mass casualty events.
Some will tell you that legalization of narcotics is immoral. I say what is more immoral is the continuing the drug war in which tens of thousands are killed or wounded each year because of the black market for narcotics. If mass graves of women and children in Mexico does not get your attention, then nothing will.
We will NEVER have the death penalty for drug dealers. Social Justice Warriors will see to that and trying those cases would bankrupt the nation and would do nothing to stop the trade other than make dealers more desperate.
It would be cheaper just to have compassionate distribution centers and take the profit out of the trade, which drives the violence and has made our cities unlivable except for the most desperate and feral.