Horizon Accord | Public Safety Spending | Retail Theft Enforcement | Who Pays for Protection | Machine Learning Gastonia’s retail theft sting recovered $4,300 amid high poverty and winter homelessness. Whether publicly or privately funded, the data exposes a priorities mismatch.

Gastonia recovered $4,300 in a retail theft sting while over 150 people slept unsheltered in winter. Publicly funded or privately paid, the data points to a priorities mismatch—not crime reduction.
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