MATTHEWS: High-crime area store closures prompt complaints to wrong source

We’ve seen it happen all over America in recent years, with stores and restaurants packing up shop, some after decades of service to the community. The primary reason for many of these closures has been escalating crime rates, and the frustration some retailers have with repeat offenders who are let off by soft-on-crime district attorneys, only to see the same people come back and victimize them again.

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