Posted on 01/09/2023 7:00:12 AM PST by Twotone
Thousands of independent grocers across New York City are forming a fast-growing political coalition to demand that elected officials and law enforcement clamp down on shoplifters, claiming that increasingly brazen and violent heists have created a crisis, The Post has learned.
The group — which already represents nearly 4,000 stores, including corner bodegas and supermarkets like KeyFood and C-Town in the New York metro area — is calling for prosecutors and judges to set bail for “repeat theft offenders,” reversing key provisions of New York’s sweeping and controversial bail reform law in 2019.
Collective Action to Protect our Stores, or CAPS, is also asking lawmakers to make assaults on retail workers a Class D felony — a protection given to MTA and NYPD officers and livery drivers in New York that grocers argue they should receive as essential workers, too.
“We have been assaulted, terrorized, and our physical and mental health jeopardized,” the group said in a letter being sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams on Monday in addition to other city and state officials. “A rise in larceny cases has hit independent supermarkets hard.”
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Wouldn't that be racist?
Racist AND would deprive certain classes of their reparations payments.
Sic the FBI on them. Or better yet, more uncontrolled riots.
How many of these grocers voted for Democrats, I wonder?
There is no such thing as shoplifting
In actuality there is criminal redistribution of income. Those who have not self redistribute with no worry of retribution.
Progress is accomplished by self redistribution. Redistribution of the wealth of others is progress and therefore good
They’re not loving the Obama effect.
Allowing people to steal without consequence is creating a crisis? Who would have thunk it?
They mean the underfunded police?
> Sic the FBI on them. <
Don’t forget all those new IRS agents. I’m guessing that these grocers are complaining just to draw attention away from their tax shenanigans.
Armed IRS agents should look into that.
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Sorry but you live in “Everything Is Free” especially your stuff Democrat held territory
The elites don’t care. They isolate and insulate themselves from the consequences of their policies and agendas that they inflict on the rest of us.
Perhaps they need to return to the old fashioned grocery stores where you went in, gave your list to the counter man who dispatched a kid to go in back and get the goods on your list.
Then the basket of goods would be given to you when you pay.
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shoplifters?
They are Undocumented Cashless Equity Distributors..................
” in a letter being sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams”
Waste of time.
1: they’re the reasons why crime is on the rise
2: they don’t care.
This adage "should be" color blind.
How many of these grocers are democrats or voted democrat in the last several elections?
Democrats can’t see the correlation between electing democrats and their cities burning down around them. It’s always the republicans fault.
Close the stores. That would definitely work...
And those that didn’t need to close their businesses and move to more friendly states.
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