I witness retail theft all the time. It is always the same demographic: the people who are taught from birth that they are owed something and must vote Democrat to alleviate these ills and acquire more free things, i.e. their due.
My sister has taught middle schoolers in inner city Baltimore for a decade. You would not believe their sense of entitlement at ages 11, 12, and 13. The newest and best sneakers, hair extensions, backpacks and phones. My sister stopped buying pencils for them and it was nothing but nonstop sass and lip: “Where’s my pencils? Wot chu mean that I have to buy them? You owe them to us! You can’t make me buy my own pencils!”
It’s a regular lab experiment in human behavior. And the results are exactly as you would expect.
Why is it that we continue to dance around the 800lb gorilla in the room? I did research for a paper I published which sought to address why inner-city grocery stores almost always had higher food prices than the same chain in the suburbs. The reason: Theft and vandalism. Property insurance costs were significantly higher and theft insurance wasn’t even available.
“When I want somethin’, man, I don’t wanna pay for it!”