I had a family member who owned a store in a mall.
Despite the location having 90% white customers, she said 90% of her shoplifting problems were from black customers.
She also had to stop taking checks, because every time she took one from a black person it bounced, and she spent hours in court trying to collect, which never happened even after a judgement. And she could not put up a sign saying “no checks from black people”
She used to be a flaming liberal- but after a while she said she felt like she had to follow them around any time they came in to the store because it seemed like every single time something came up missing.
Finally I told her you’re wasting your time CATCHING shoplifters, put cameras up everywhere (real and fake) to PREVENT it.
How is personal experience racism. 12% of the population is responsible for 45% of all crime- and when you remove children and old people it’s more like 6% responsible for 45%.
My son worked security for a big national store (you’d know the name) in Seattle. Mostly white people. : ) Almost every person he stopped for theft was black - and not just a teen doing something stupid, but moms, grandmoms, grown men, etc.
I don’t know if cameras prevent anything. There are cameras all over this type of store. The cameras help sort out the ‘lying liars who lie’ folks, but it certainly didn’t stop them from trying to get away with theft.