Important Takeaways:

• Shoplifting surged 64% in NYC — more than any other US city in past 4 years
• New York City has led the US with the sharpest increase in the number of reported shoplifting incidents since before the pandemic, according to a study.
• The Big Apple saw a 64% increase in reported incidents of retail theft during the four-year period between mid-2019 and June of this year, while Los Angeles experienced a 61% surge in the same metric, according to the Council on Criminal Justice.
• A New York Police Department spokesperson pointed to crime statistics showing that there were more than 93,000 incidents of petty larceny so far this year — which is 29% higher compared to the same period two years ago but 5% lower compared to the same period last year.
• LA, meanwhile, saw a 109% increase in reported retail theft incidents in the first six months of this year — the highest in the country, the report found.
• Dallas was second with a 73% bump in the number of reported shoplifting incidents in the first half of 2023.
• Virginia Beach, Dallas, Raleigh, Boston, and Pittsburgh are the other cities that saw a spike in the number of shoplifting incidents that were reported over the course of the last four years

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