Saturday, May 10, 2025
Beyond the Crime Scene
  • Home
  • News
  • True Crime Stories
  • Videos
  • Podcast
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • True Crime Stories
  • Videos
  • Podcast
No Result
View All Result
Beyond the Crime Scene
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Shoplifters are LITERALLY killing folks. It’s time to end the madness

by
June 4, 2023
in News
0
Gov. Kathy Hochul
189
SHARES
1.5k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


The shoplifters are winning — and they’re causing untold misery for shoppers, retailers and store workers across the nation.

When will this utter madness end?

When will Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York lawmakers realize they need to make attacks on retail workers an automatic felony — and see that the perps suffer real consequences — in order to stem the tide?

Stores throughout the city are locking merchandise behind plastic barriers.

And raising prices.

(If not closing altogether.)

Walgreens is debuting a store in Chicago where the goods in all but two aisles are kept safely out of customer reach.

At a Home Depot in North Carolina, a worker was actually pushed to his death by a shoplifter running off with stolen merchandise.

This is the sick world progressives have wrought.

They excuse it by claiming shoplifting is a crime of poverty, and prog prosecutors turn around and vow not to go after the thieves.


Gov. Kathy Hochul
In New York, 327 people accounted for some 30% of the city’s 22,000 shoplifting arrests in 2022.
Paul Martinka

Now-ousted San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin proposed to fight the scourge by addressing “root causes.”

Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg promised during his campaign to go soft on retail theft, and delivered.

Chicago’s Kim Foxx dramatically eased felony requirements for shoplifting almost as soon as she came into office. 

Boston’s DA until last year, Rachael Rollins, ordered her prosecutors not to go after shoplifters without special permission from their bosses.

The result: Retail theft — no matter how serious, and even when perpetrated by organized-crime gangs — has been de facto legalized in blue cities (a problem aggravated by shrinking police forces and perverse pro-criminal reforms).


Century 21
Reported thefts were up 45% over 2021 and nearly 275% compared to the mid-2000s.
William Farrington

These are not crimes of poverty, the data show. 

In New York, 327 people accounted for some 30% of the city’s 22,000 shoplifting arrests in 2022.

(Reported thefts, north of 63,000 for 2022, were up 45% over 2021 and nearly 275% compared to the mid-2000s.)

They’re sociopathic crimes of opportunity. And they have deadly consequences everywhere. 

Witness Jeff Rasor crying out for help from law enforcement on Nightline after his father, that North Carolina Home Depot employee, was brutally murdered by a cold-blooded shoplifter trying to make off with three pressure washers. 

Keep up with today’s most important news

Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update.

Hardly Jean Valjean stealing bread for his family. 

Just as bad are this crime wave’s less spectacular but equally corrosive effects. 

Like goods under lockup — not just in Chicago (where Walgreens absurdly dodges about it being a response to crime) but here in New York and elsewhere. 

Or Whole Foods abandoning its SF flagship because of crime, and multiple Walmarts and Targets shutting down over the same issues. 

Even giant chain stores are turning into lawless, dangerous places, with unabashed crooks owning the aisles — where both shoppers and employees are afraid. 

That’s to say nothing of mom-and-pop operations crushed into oblivion. 

Or workers who are put in an impossible position by sneering leftist DAs and other electeds: Let criminals get away with it or risk death. 

Something must be done. The bill from Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton (D-Staten Island) and Assemblyman Manny De Los Santos (D-Inwood) currently in committee in New York’s Legislature to make attacking retail workers an automatic felony would be a more-than-necessary start. 

But only a start. 

Contra Boudin, retail theft must be addressed by swift, harsh consequences — above all for serial offenders — and no more pabulum about equity or justice. 

Unless and until lefty DAs wake up, the social decay, economic pillage and tragic bloodshed they’ve authored will continue. 



Source link

Related articles

156 dogs, cats rescued from horror home of elderly Utah hoarder

156 dogs, cats rescued from horror home of elderly Utah hoarder

May 10, 2025
Trump's Alcatraz plan: Letters

Trump’s Alcatraz plan: Letters

May 10, 2025
Tags: alvin braggchicagocrimeeditorialmurdersnew york cityOpinionsan franciscoshoplifting
Share76Tweet47
Previous Post

Man, 35, shot in butt at NYC restaurant: NYPD

Next Post

Florida police arrest man, search for 2 others in Memorial Day beach shooting

Related Posts

156 dogs, cats rescued from horror home of elderly Utah hoarder

156 dogs, cats rescued from horror home of elderly Utah hoarder

by
May 10, 2025
0

More than 150 dogs were found crammed into an elderly hoarder’s tiny, trashed house in Utah last month, horrific newly...

Trump's Alcatraz plan: Letters

Trump’s Alcatraz plan: Letters

by
May 10, 2025
0

The Issue: President Trump suggesting the reopening of Alcatraz for the “dregs of society.” Is it safe to say that...

Longtime New Yorker walking on Central Park West is grazed by stray bullet in 'terrifying' ordeal

Longtime New Yorker walking on Central Park West is grazed by stray bullet in ‘terrifying’ ordeal

by
May 9, 2025
0

A 55-year-old longtime New Yorker was grazed by a stray bullet while walking on Central Park West on Thursday evening...

Republican DA bucks blue state's 'broken sentencing' with tough-on-crime approach

Republican DA bucks blue state’s ‘broken sentencing’ with tough-on-crime approach

by
May 9, 2025
0

A tough-on-crime Republican district attorney is using his years of prosecuting some of the most infamous cases in Colorado to...

America’s most dangerous states revealed — and this beautiful tourist destination tops the list

America’s most dangerous states revealed — and this beautiful tourist destination tops the list

by
May 9, 2025
0

They’re beautiful places — but are they to die for? U.S. News and World Report has ranked the 10 most...

Load More
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
The horrifying rape, torture murder of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin : True Crime Diva

The horrifying rape, torture murder of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin : True Crime Diva

May 29, 2023
Drunk driver who killed mother and son blamed the victims, phone calls with father reveal

Drunk driver who killed mother and son blamed the victims, phone calls with father reveal

September 22, 2024
Karen Styles: map of where a deer hunter found her body

The 1994 murder of Karen Styles

May 9, 2023
Mackenzie Shirilla

Father of Mackenzie Shirilla’s boyfriend doesn’t support life sentence

August 20, 2023
The Murder of Latanisha Carmichael – TRUE CRIME REPORT

The Murder of Latanisha Carmichael – TRUE CRIME REPORT

June 7, 2023
The Unsolved Murder of Karina Holmer – TRUE CRIME REPORT

The Unsolved Murder of Karina Holmer – TRUE CRIME REPORT

September 3, 2023
The tragic story of solo traveler Emma Kelty

The tragic story of solo traveler Emma Kelty

May 15, 2023
Karen Styles: map of where a deer hunter found her body

The 1994 murder of Karen Styles

0
Dwane Roy Dreher: photo of his 2nd wife, Lois Genzler Dreher at 16 years old

The 1955 disappearance of U.S. Navy veteran Dwane Roy Dreher

0
Alta Braun: professional photo taken when she was about 4 years old.

The 1917 unsolved murder of Alta Marie Braun

0
Vacation Nightmare: The gruesome murder of Janice Pietropola and Lynn Seethaler

Vacation Nightmare: The gruesome murder of Janice Pietropola and Lynn Seethaler

0
Kristi Nikle: photo of suspect Floyd Tapson

The 1996 disappearance of Kristi Nikle

0
Frank and Tessie Pozar: photo of their son, Frank Pozar, Jr.

Motel Mystery: What happened to Frank and Tessie Pozar?

0
Evil on The Road Part 4: Desmond Joseph Runstedler

Evil on The Road Part 4: Desmond Joseph Runstedler

0
156 dogs, cats rescued from horror home of elderly Utah hoarder

156 dogs, cats rescued from horror home of elderly Utah hoarder

May 10, 2025
Trump's Alcatraz plan: Letters

Trump’s Alcatraz plan: Letters

May 10, 2025
Longtime New Yorker walking on Central Park West is grazed by stray bullet in 'terrifying' ordeal

Longtime New Yorker walking on Central Park West is grazed by stray bullet in ‘terrifying’ ordeal

May 9, 2025
Republican DA bucks blue state's 'broken sentencing' with tough-on-crime approach

Republican DA bucks blue state’s ‘broken sentencing’ with tough-on-crime approach

May 9, 2025
America’s most dangerous states revealed — and this beautiful tourist destination tops the list

America’s most dangerous states revealed — and this beautiful tourist destination tops the list

May 9, 2025
Why New Jersey Prisons’ Change from JPay to ViaPath Tablets Is Distressing

Why New Jersey Prisons’ Change from JPay to ViaPath Tablets Is Distressing

May 9, 2025
Michigan dad Andre Broadenax brings along daughter, 11, to home burglary and ditches her when homeowner arrives: prosecutors

Michigan dad Andre Broadenax brings along daughter, 11, to home burglary and ditches her when homeowner arrives: prosecutors

May 9, 2025
Beyond the Crime Scene with Bee Astronaut

Categories

  • Featured
  • News
  • Podcast
  • True Crime Stories
  • Videos

Legal Pages

  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Cookie Privacy Policy
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
  • DMCA

© 2023 All right reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • True Crime Stories
  • Videos
  • Podcast

© 2023 All right reserved.