[AlexandrB]

Every store in my town now locks up anything small that costs more than $20 in cages. Talking to some people working there it was pretty common for people to walk in, take a bunch of shit, and walk out. Drivers are completely out of control. I've witnessed at least 3 people run red lights in the last 2 years, while I can remember only one such incident in the 10 years before that. Signalling is no longer something drivers do - like at all. For the last 2 years teenagers have terrorized the local park on Canada Day shooting fireworks at random passers by. With someone setting off fireworks under an occupied baby carriage last year. Car thefts in Toronto got so bad that people were building retractable bollards in their driveways[1].

I could go on, but there's a clear apparent trajectory to these experiences.

[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/a-thief-will-think-twice-some-tor...

[digging]

Still mostly anecdotal, but a better answer, and probably belongs higher up in the thread actually.

[zahlman]

>Still mostly anecdotal

In principle, what sort of hard evidence is gathered that could establish the point?

[digging]

I'm kind of confused by the question. Do you think an unverified commenter on a public website saying "all the stores in my town [not named] do X [but I didn't count]" is a type of hard evidence that I'm arbitrarily rejecting?

[zahlman]

No; I think that there's no feasible way that anyone could have hard evidence one way or another for the underlying question, and that you should therefore take anecdotes more seriously.