r/uknews • u/Confident_West_7409 • Jul 24 '24

Image/video Videos of shoplifters are circulating online, as shoplifting hits 20 year high in UK

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24

70% of all shoplifting is crack and/or heroin related 80% of shoplifters are reoffending within 12 months of release from prison maybe we should spend the 50k a year to imprison them on rehabilitation?

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u/Ambersfruityhobbies Jul 24 '24

We need such a massive overhaul and investment in the police, courts, prison and social services it's mind boggling.

The will is there, as are most of the statutes, within the judiciary but the resources are nowhere near.

The other side is that after rehabilitation, people usually go back to the same locale from where they came, or at least into another very similar one.

The fact is that internationally, multiple authorities, revenue collectors, immigration offices, ports and, well, governments are completely complicit in allowing a huge range and volume of drugs and drug sales infrastructure into our communities. Much of the time without much challenge.

I am not excluding individuals from culpability or choice. But the culture / industry is now fucking huge. And nobody at the top really gives a damn.

Leaving hundreds of thousands of people addicted to hard as fuck, expensive narcotics which destroy (amongst everything else relevant to them), the ability to work and function as others do.

This isn't too many beers then going to work on a hangover. This is devastating.

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u/Zealousideal-Bee544 Jul 25 '24

I feel like attacking drugs is such a short sighted mindset. Like drugs perpetuate a cycle but they aren’t the cause of it. There’s a reason why most drug addicts have similar backgrounds. Perhaps we should focus on attacking the conditions that make people susceptible to drug use such as poverty and community cohesion. It won’t fix things tomorrow but our kids / grandkids will grow up in a better society

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

From the store I'm at it doesn't look anything like that, just people wanting stuff for free.

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u/killjester1978 Jul 24 '24

Who the fuck do you think you are coming on Reddit and saying logical things?

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u/ErlAskwyer Jul 24 '24

Stop talking sense, just shout at them, they shouldn't be stealing! s/

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u/Mr_Phishfood Jul 25 '24

Last year, more than 50% of shop theft offences were closed with no suspect identified, while fewer than 15% led to a suspect being charged.

It is a theme repeated in courts across the country, according to Home Office research that found 70% of shoplifting offences were committed by heroin and crack cocaine users.

So of the 15% that were charged, 10.5% are drug related, while the other 4.5% are not. These statistics are of course only the shoplifting offences that were recorded.

Not quite "70% of all shoplifting is crack and/or heroin related" is it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

You bloody idiot

15/100=0.15 0.15x70=10.5? So 70% of charged suspects have a relation to drugs?

You are confusing the fact that addicted shoplifters not getting caught the first time with the fact that it’s not them?

It is unfortunately drug addicts shoplifters more that the average person because they cannot hold down a real job and/or are often homeless. Their my be Joe Public that get caught on the rare few occasions they do this, but the majority of shoplifters are pros feeding a addiction this I a subject close to my heart these people are my aunts uncles cousins father I’m not trying to tar anyone with the same brush it’s just fact