{"id":87501,"date":"2026-04-07T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87501"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:16:52","slug":"opinion-uncomfortable-truth-at-heart-of-britains-shoplifting-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/07\/opinion-uncomfortable-truth-at-heart-of-britains-shoplifting-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Uncomfortable truth at heart of Britain&#8217;s shoplifting epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58397\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/shoplifting-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/shoplifting-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/shoplifting-770x513.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/shoplifting-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/shoplifting-360x240.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/shoplifting.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One measure of the moral seriousness of a country is its respect for property. Britain&#8217;s activist coppers will finger your collar for posting the wrong words. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/opinion-uncomfortable-truth-at-heart-of-britain-s-shoplifting-epidemic\/ar-AA20lkYT?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d4ebd3f2c442068dc379fd17de8231&amp;cvpid=63471ee2362849028ea5f07f6ca660b6&amp;ei=29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>One measure of the moral seriousness of a country is its respect for property. Britain&#8217;s activist coppers will finger your collar for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/shoplifing.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87502,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87501\/revisions\/87502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}