Toilet paper is one of the few items not locked down in San Francisco drug stores.

Thoughts on Confronting a San Francisco Shoplifter

Does inaction prevent or invite vigilantism?

Jeff Miller
5 min readOct 11, 2023

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Like me, many San Franciscans have thought about it.

With brazen shoplifting now as common as fog in the Outer Sunset district, what would any of us do if a theft happened right before our eyes?

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Jeff Miller

A culture writer, I enjoy tugging at the sacred, profane, and prosaic threads that shape behavior and belief.