Not sure if this is real or not, but you'll often see companies blaming all sorts of things when they shut down, often whatever generic "bad thing" was last mentioned in local or domestic news. This is because the owners really want it to be someone else's fault and not themselves messing up how they ran their business.

But it invariably is. Had to shut down due to too much theft or burglaries? Tough shit, dealing with crime is part of running a business, and I don't see the businesses on either side of you shutting down. Maybe you should have paid more attention to how loss affected your margins.