{"id":1184345,"date":"2023-03-07T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/crime-trumps-covid-nypd-wants-businesses-to-require-customers-remove-masks\/1184345\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:10:27","slug":"crime-trumps-covid-nypd-wants-businesses-to-require-customers-remove-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/crime-trumps-covid-nypd-wants-businesses-to-require-customers-remove-masks\/1184345\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Trumps COVID: NYPD Wants Businesses To Require Customers Remove Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crime Trumps COVID: NYPD Wants Businesses To Require Customers Remove Masks<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Police Department is advising businesses to ask patrons to take off their masks before entry in light of the high number of thefts and robberies across the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Removing masks should be made a \u201ccondition of entry,\u201d NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference last week, noting that criminals have been taking advantage of masks to avoid detection on surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are coming up to our businesses, sometimes with masks, sometimes masks, hoods and latex gloves, and they\u2019re being buzzed in, they\u2019re being allowed to enter into the store and then we have a robbery or some kind of property being stolen<\/strong>,\u201d Maddrey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are asking the businesses to make this a condition of entry: That people, when they come in, they show their face, they should identify themselves,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd if they feel like they want to put their mask on after they identify themselves for their safety, by all means, they should do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, most businesses in the city would block customers from entering the premises with masks on, according to the police chief. But taking in masked customers is now \u201ca way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the pandemic, this is a way of life for us, where people wear masks regularly<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019re seeing this being used too much as a ruse to enter into businesses and to victimize our businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need our businesses to be proactive and do their due diligence. We need to make sure people are identifying themselves,\u201d Maddrey said.<\/p>\n

A Shoplifting Epidemic<\/h2>\n

The advice comes as New York City Mayor Eric Adams admitted that a shoplifting epidemic is forcing chain stores to close down and costing retail workers their jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who say that we\u2019re criminalizing the poor\u2014they\u2019re wrong,\u201d Adam said at a Feb. 12 budget hearing in Albany as he made the case for billions in additional state funding for his city. \u201cPoor and low-income New Yorkers are being unemployed because we\u2019re losing those businesses in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 03\/07\/2023 – 13:10<\/span><\/p>\n

From:Zerohedge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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