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Artist Lucy Sparrow’s 2016 exhibition Shoplifting, at London’s Lawrence Alkin Gallery, highlighted the most shoplifted items from UK supermarkets. PA Images/Alamy

Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’

The past 300 years show us that shoplifting is a crime rooted in complex societal as well as economic issues. But who deserves our sympathy: the robbers or the robbed?
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, at left, and group member Joe Biggs were sentenced to many years in federal prison. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images

How local police could help prevent another January 6th‑style insurrection

The Proud Boys are more of a loosely affiliated street gang than they are a unified right-wing militia, researchers say. But police ignore the threats from these groups, and their threats grow.

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