Folks in Jackson Mississippi have the answer for high crime.

Depriving people with need of the ability to purchase goods like fuel and food. Brilliant!

 

I don’t think businesses closing in poorer, high crime areas is anything new.

 

Since policing doesnt work, I suppose new ideas are welcome

 

Evidently ability to purchase isn't quite accurate.

 

How is the gas station operation killing people? Is it serving tainted food and selling deadly beverages?

 

It's one gas station.
That being said, if I owned multiple businesses and one was losing money due to theft or any other reason specific to that one location, I would probably shut it down if the situation couldn't be corrected.

 

Especially if the police have been disarmed, disbanded and defunded. Or... simply underfunded.

 

This city was taken over by the state after the Republican legislature basically stripped the will of the voters and local control. So, whatever crime problems they have, and whatever solutions they failed to implement, falls on a bunch of dumbass republicans that probably never cared to begin with. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if their secret goal was to make life there worse.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/us/jackson-mississippi-judicial-system/index.html

 

Since it’s bad parenting coupled with bad politics, other options are on the table.

 

Giving the police endless money and still have high crime is bad politics, but Americans dont have any other ideas. The Police Department alone is about 1/3rd of the city's budget according to the internet.

 

What is it with streets named after civil rights leaders in the South? They are almost always some of the most dangerous streets in the city.

 

Sure, for the thieves. There's probably some hard-working folks who need access to things like food & fuel too.

 

They're having similar issues with a lot of dollar trees stores in poor neighborhood. Closing a bunch of them do to shoplifting loss. I think we're losing two up the street from my warehouse because of this, according to the managers I overheard.

Your odds of getting arrested are basically zero if you walk in, grab what you want and just walk out. Not sure how you stop it other than making people not have anything to lose.

 

Do you believe the criminal element goes away because of closing stores in poorer areas? They'll just move their crime to more affluent areas. Last thing the people in those areas want to see happen.

 

Yeah, when I typed that out Dollar Tree came to mind. Many of their stores have shoplifting issues but they closed around 1000 stores after horrible metrics in part from their botched buyout of Family Dollar. The few times I have been to a Dollar Tree (In OK), it was a train wreck. High meth usage of shoppers didn't help. Feel sorry for the honest families impacted by the closing as DTs are often the only stores nearby (nearby being 15 miles in OK).

 

Most of these stores have a bare minimum of employees. Anytime I walk into a CVS it seems like there is maybe one person working at any given time outside the pharmacy. Even where I live it seems like anything over $30 is behind glass too. All these places want to run on skeleton crews.