Posted on 10/09/2021 1:00:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
Thanks to a citywide shoplifting tsunami, bare necessities are now rare luxuries on drug-store shelves across New York City.
“It looks like the Third World,” bemoaned one Manhattan resident, after eyeing the aisles of a CVS on Sixth Avenue in Soho desperately low of toothpaste, face wash and hand sanitizer, among a long list of other items.
“They’ve all been stolen,” a CVS employee told The Post.
State bail reform laws make shoplifting a promising career option for some New York City crooks. One man, Isaac Rodriguez, 22, of Queens, was arrested for shoplifting 46 times this year alone, The Post exclusively reported last week.
The blame goes straight to the halls of power in Albany, said New York City top cop Dermot Shea.
“Insanity,” the police commissioner tweeted last week in response to The Post report. “No other way to describe the resulting crime that has flowed from disastrous bail reform law.”
Serial shoplifters, even if arrested, typically walk free the same day. Cases against them are often not prosecuted. Drug stores, filled with aisles of small necessities, offer an easy-to-harvest goldmine for thieves.
Rodriguez allegedly stole from Walgreens stores 37 times, lifting everything from protein drinks to soap, baby formula and body lotions, often simply filling up a bag with items then walking out the front door without paying.
There are 77 other thieves right now walking the streets of New York with rap sheets of 20 or more shoplifting charges, NYPD sources say.
As of Sept. 12, the city has seen 26,385 complaints of retail theft — the most ever recorded (going back to 1995). It’s a 32 percent spike from last year (20,024) and 38 percent surge from 2014 (19,166).
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Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving sh!t-hole.
Duh blah blah blah ZERO don’t care either. As long as the perps are masked and vaxxed.............. Yeah, right. Meanwhile at the NYPD, to vax or not to vax. Will the PBA back those that don’t want the vax? Stay tuned..............
Wall it off and put mines on the bridges.
Businesses should stop putting stores in their neighborhoods.
They reward bad behavior and then more bad behavior happens. The leftist politicians want their cities to be unlivable.
Preserving property rights is one of the most basic requirements of a developed society; NYC turned its back on that a long time ago. Prime for re-settlement of Afghans and Haitians, I guess; they’re already replacing Americans with Chinese in NYC.
Well go ahead....allow Satan’s animals to run loose in the world. Here’s your result of CRT and reparations teaching!!
And as the PHARMACIES close one by many, the WOKE will loudly bemoan the creation of MEDICINE deserts as racist actions by Big Pharma.
A “desert” was once a sand covered vista lacking in vegetation and/or water.
Soon to mean a rubbish covered vista lacking in many of the necessities of life.
redistribution of wealth
whats the problem? are you racist?
keep voting dem
next up: pay people not to shoplift
can i do that, too. It would make my Xmas shopping alot more affordable this year.
The retail establishments in NYC could stop this madness instantly if they all threatened to without paying taxes and also donate massively to any politician’s opponent that does not vote to change this policy.
Pretty much says it all!
Any New Yorkers here? 1 in every 38 Americans lives there.
Is this situation limited to a small area or would you call it widespread? Have you had to change how you travel/do errands? Is street crime also worse? Are you worried when on the streets? How does the quality of life compare to 10 years ago?
Thanks in advance.
No city, no “society” can survive this. Not in the long run.
If NYC is so deserving, and by that I presume you mean ineducable, why did Deep State feel the need to shove RCV down NYC’s throat..?
from each according to ability
to each according to need
Stores will become stockrooms, with a counter up front where customers will fill out an order, pay, and wait for their items to come to the front desk.
That’s the way it was done in the USSR, and what was good enough for those commies is good enough for the commies in NY.
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