[haram_masala]

Target has started closing their San Francisco stores at 6pm as a response to the increase in theft. Do you really think that this wasn't a data-driven decision, and that Target as a whole just got swept up in some kind of racist moral panic?

[JTbane]

IMO it doesn't matter if your theft is a felony or misdemeanor, police should still patrol and try to pursue it. Cops, however, claim they are overworked and understaffed to do this.

This is the "broken windows" theory- if you let minor crimes like shoplifting go unpunished in a city, more people will do it.

[Drunk_Engineer]

Target has been reducing hours of employees throughout the country.

[tbihl]

This may be true, but that is distinct from closing before dark (which I haven't seen in any other place.)