Party affiliation has little to do with it. Shoplifting concentrates wherever wealth inequality is extreme
Nooo wealth inequality is somehow completely unconnected to crime, we must never look at the causes of crime and just blame people (and drugs or video games) instead. That'll fix it.
When we constrain others such that they may ONLY make bad choices, this is a function of our wills, not theirs.
In that situation, while they chose this crime, freely, over that crime, someone else had a choice of offering them crime or not-crime.
Not offering someone something viable not-crime when the opportunity was there for you is far worse than someone else selecting crime when the options they were handed were "crime or more crime".
The only thing that someone could possibly find themselves responsible is "picking the best apparent option from bad options".
Hence why even as a compatibilist who thinks people are responsible as they are now for the choices they make today and tomorrow and the next, if the only other responses are still bad, someone else is responsible for something much more important, in turn.
WE already don't expect people to attempt things that won't work or to attempt options they do not have. There's nothing to learn from with "do what you cannot right now as you are". It's a stupid request.
So I blame people who don't give the homeless, poor, and economically overlooked any option but to commit crimes for creating that situation just as much as I blame the homeless people for taking the best of bad options... But there's little to be learned about taking the best of bad options and much to be learned for those who present only bad options when they can afford better.
As a result, I clap the homeless on the back for at least taking the BEST of the bad options and I kick the rent seeker in the teeth for their own part in the badness of said options.
