Posted on 02/11/2023 4:58:00 AM PST by george76
New York City retail workers told the Post that they are fed up with the brazen shoplifters who hit their stores and are scared to step in — as complaints for store thefts soar to record levels.
‘You never know if these guys have knives,’ Nike security guard says
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A 30-year-old security guard at a Manhattan Nike store told The Post Friday that at least one person per day tries to make off with some goods.
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‘As bad as Dinkins’ era,’
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Shoplifting continues to run unchecked in NYC and stores like the Modern State party supply store on 3rd Ave and 72 St get hit daily and owner Louis Weissbart says its’s only getting worse.
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They’re not stealing food or other essentials from me .. it’s all discretionary stuff. They steal toys like crazy. They are stealing to make money.
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Weissbart said he doesn’t even call the police anymore when someone shoplifts from his store ..
He raged over the NYPD’s inaction and blamed much of the uptick on justice reforms that have created a “revolving door” for criminals. He said he hasn’t seen any change since the mayor’s retail summit last December.
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“One of my managers got knifed when he tried to throw someone out.”
‘Sometimes they bring suitcases,’ a food store cashier says
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A cashier at a Food Emporium said they get ripped off at least six times a day.
“And those are just the ones we see,” Virginia Ribiara said.
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Cops tell supermarket owner ‘there’s nothing they can do’
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shoplifters know the law and will be back on the street in just a few hours even if the cops decide to arrest them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
All Crackers, gotta be.....
The progressive cancer rots the cities from within.
For America, shop lifting in New York is a good thing
But what had really closed the deal in destroying our system was when schools began to teach children that the American system was rigged by white privilege and, if you aren't white, you can't succeed.
Top that off by convincing the police that arresting minority criminals can ruin careers and it's game over for the retail business.
That said, all this is a boon for online shopping.
Sorry. No sympathies from me on this one. This is what NYC wanted, this is what they got.
As posted to another thread.... Democrats. Democrats policies. Democrat goals.
No sympathies.......
What is destructive to NYC is in fact good for America.
Well I have a progressive liberal solution that’s guaranteed to reduce the shoplifting to zero. Stores stock their shelves, open the doors, get rid of the registers and let the shopping begin. The progessive dream...everything is free!.
The best we can hope for is the civilized states break away from the communist controlled states, but that's extremely unlikely.
Recall John Conyers of Michigan introduced a reparations bill to the House every year he was in office.
That nonsense has long legs. But to your point it is picking up steam.
BLM wanted to end mass incarceration. This is what you get.
Nobody has the guts tp say out loud that this is a black crime wave.
Sounds like mission accomplished to certain groups and politicians...
Shoplifters will be shot, immediately.
One small sign, permitted by the state...or ignored by the state with so many other bigger problems (more likely) in 2 years.
You are certainly correct that it goes back to LBJ and before, but this generation has no idea who LBJ is. Most of them think George W Bush was our first president. And Obama is the only president that really matters.
“What is destructive to NYC is in fact good for America.”
I grew up in NYC. I worked in Manhattan on the day of 9/11. I’ve seen many changes, both positive and negative which impacted the populace in numerous ways.
It’s a shame that the best city on the planet turned into a s**thole. Rudy fixed it.
Well if make shoplifting basically legal…. This is what happens. Remember the poor shoplifters, they the real victims
Since the Summer of Floyd, they have been unleashed.
Brick and mortar stores are doomed. The shoplifters then go online and have to go much more high-tech, first stealing identities, then opening fake credit accounts, and maxing them out, before credit is refused. The objective is to drive out the “white supremacy” retailers, both in the storefronts and online.
Retailers have some small tolerance for “shrinkage”, or the loss by pilferage by employees, or minor shoplifting, or other “disappearances” of store stock. But once this small tolerance is exceeded, either prices rise, sometimes sharply, or the business decides to leave that location.
Large urban areas become retail deserts. Food stores, restaurants, hardware retail, pharmacies, even the small Hispanic corner stores, all disappear.
This is true in California only worse since they put the limit to almost a $1,000 before it is really a crime (if the criminal is caught the most they get is the loot taken from them and a summons to appear in court, which of course they don’t)
Drive past a big box store and you will see “homeless” camps nearby. They get everything they need from the story by just going in and taking it.
Walmart employee had to unlock a case and walk me to the register for a bottle of “White diamonds” perfume here in Louisiana...all because of theft. It’s not limited to just NYC. Think of the time and money spent just to facilitate a small sale because courts won’t punish thieves . When you don’t punish the small things all you get are bigger problemss.
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