{"id":1292124,"date":"2023-05-21T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T23:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/nyc-has-a-shoplifting-problem-and-kiosks-arent-going-to-stop-it\/1292124\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T23:10:43","slug":"nyc-has-a-shoplifting-problem-and-kiosks-arent-going-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/nyc-has-a-shoplifting-problem-and-kiosks-arent-going-to-stop-it\/1292124\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Has A Shoplifting Problem… And Kiosks Aren’t Going To Stop It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYC Has A Shoplifting Problem… And Kiosks Aren’t Going To Stop It!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrea Widburg via AmericanThinker.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Like all Democrat-run cities<\/strong> that turned against police in 2020, New York City has a crime problem, including an explosive uptick in shoplifting.<\/strong> Fortunately for New York City store owners, Mayor Eric Adams has a plan. The problem is that, as with all lefty plans, it will cost money and almost certainly be completely useless.<\/p>\n

Ever since the George Floyd riots caused leftist-managed cities to defund their police, all sorts of crimes have increased. In New York City, the crime that\u2019s really taken off is shoplifting.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0first eight months of 2021<\/a>, shoplifting in New York increased by 30% over rates in 2020. Of course, one could argue that slowly ending the lockdown was what made the difference. However, that wouldn\u2019t explain what happened in 2022. In that year,\u00a0shoplifting went up<\/a>\u00a0by another 45% over rates in 2021, with an even better marker being the fact that it was 275% higher than a decade or so earlier.<\/p>\n

Shoplifting may be a non-violent crime, but it has a disastrous effect on people in the community because stores, including big box stores, respond to theft in two different ways: First, they raise their prices; then when that proves ineffective, they pick up their marbles and go home by shutting down stores. <\/strong><\/em>In San Francisco, for example,\u00a0Walgreens closed five stores<\/a>\u00a0due to shoplifting. Target, meanwhile, predicts that\u00a0retail crime will cost it<\/a>\u00a0as much as $1.3 billion:<\/p>\n

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Crime-battered retail giant Target said it expects to suffer as much as a $1.3 billion hit to its bottom line because of \u201ctheft and organized crime,\u201d according to the company\u2019s first-quarter earnings report released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Minneapolis-based chain said its profit will be squeezed by \u201c$500 million more than what we saw last year\u201d \u2013 when the company lost as much as $800 million from \u201cinventory shrink.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Considering that Target voiced its full-throated support for BLM and dug deep in its pocket to support the communist organization, one can\u2019t help but notice an \u201cactions have consequences\u201d scenario at work. That\u2019s a shame because Target used to be a very nice place. Now, though, aside from shoplifting, lots of people (me included) are fed up with its Pride shenanigans, which it\u2019s now\u00a0aimed\u00a0at children<\/a>. But I digress\u2026<\/p>\n

New York mayor Eric Adams seems to have been feeling the heat from merchants in New York City, so his office has announced a \u201ccrackdown on shoplifting plan.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

As always, though, when the government steps in to help, the devil is in the details:<\/p>\n

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Clown world intensifies. \ud83e\udd21\ud83c\udf0e<\/p>\n

NYC plan to \u201ccrackdown\u201d on shoplifting. \ud83e\udd28 pic.twitter.com\/4MHcnBgucn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 20, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yes, that screen shot is real, not a Photoshop.<\/strong> According to\u00a0Fox 5\u2019s full report<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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The new crackdown includes giving first-time offenders intervention programs instead of prosecution, de-escalation training for retail employees, establishing neighborhood retail watch groups to share information about a theft in real-time with one another and the police, and installing kiosks in stores to connect would-be thieves with social service programs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of the things that everyone has noticed about shoplifters is that they\u2019re not starved, Dickensian-style waifs stealing a loaf of bread to survive. <\/strong>Instead, they\u2019re organized gangs that go in and steal merchandise that has a good retail value on the street:<\/p>\n

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San Francisco pic.twitter.com\/klaiesGE2C<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Clown World \u2122 \ud83e\udd21 (@ClownWorld_) May 16, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or if they\u2019re eating what they steal, it\u2019s party time, not starvation time:<\/p>\n

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Why is Walmart struggling in urban areas?<\/p>\n

pic.twitter.com\/jDQlStgBWp<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 19, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What\u2019s happening is organized crime:<\/p>\n

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Last Walmart in North Portland Closing Down … they cannot overcome the losses from shoplifting.<\/p>\n

The people of Portland voted for this so retail stores are exiting. \ud83e\udd21 \ud83c\udf0e<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd0a pic.twitter.com\/EyE6jrRTFJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 19, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, little police kiosks promising social services (which will augment all the posters about social services in the crime-ridden NY subway) are not going to change things. Nor will friendly little \u201cintervention programs\u201d affect what is hardcore criminal activity. The NYC plan is taking a flyswatter to an out-of-control wild boar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would say that the people of NYC deserve better but, actually, they don\u2019t. This is what they voted for. It\u2019s not just that\u00a0Adams garnered<\/a>\u00a080.4% of the vote in Manhattan, 76% in the Bronx, 70.8% in Brooklyn, and 59.8% in Queens, with only Staten Island showing the good sense to vote for Curtis Sliwa (66.4% of the votes). It\u2019s also that a total of only 1,125,000 turned out to vote, out of a city with a population that\u2019s close to 9,000,000.<\/p>\n

The only ones I feel for are the conservatives (some of whom I count among my good friends) who took the time and made the effort to vote.<\/strong> As to those people, I\u2019ve heard that Florida\u2019s a nice place, as are most of the southern states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 05\/21\/2023 – 22:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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