When compared with shoplifting rates in 23 other major U.S. cities, San Francisco's monthly shoplifting rate ranks somewhere in the middle, according to a new analysis of shoplifting data from the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan criminal justice think tank.
In fact, between January 2019 and June 2023, San Francisco's reported shoplifting rate decreased by about 5%; in the first half of this year, reported incidents were down 35% compared with the first half of 2022, representing the largest percentage decrease among the 24 cities included in the study over the same time period.
The analysis acknowledges that the data used in the study likely doesn't represent the full picture; it only used incidents reported to police, which means factors such as the effectiveness of newly installed anti-theft measures, or an unwillingness among retailers to report shoplifting crimes to police, weren't examined.
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