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NYC grocers alarmed by uptick in theft, quality of life crimes
Grocery store owners are convinced: the five-finger discount is back in a big way.
An uptick in shoplifting and other violations during the coronavirus lockdown has hundreds of independent supermarket owners around the city complaining the NYPD hasn’t been responsive enough when they call — whether it’s about thieves, maskless shoppers or neighborhood drug peddlers.
“We’re pretty much on our own,” said Pedro Goico, who owns six grocery stores in the Bronx and Brooklyn. “Right now, it’s very tough to be in the grocery store business. We’re getting no help from the city.”
Goico said his stores have been plagued with shoplifters and estimates that 6% to 7% of his bottom line has disappeared because of it since March. Before COVID-19, he said he’d typically lose about 1% to shoplifters.
NYPD stats show that petty larceny cases have risen 3%, up 1,931 cases this year compared with 1,875 cases for the same period in 2019. The petty larceny designation includes any theft under $1,000, not just shoplifting.
An NYPD spokeswoman noted that while petty larceny stats are up citywide, they’re down in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
“While serious crimes such as homicides and shootings are up, the NYPD remains focused on the enforcement of all criminal activity,” she said.
Goico offered a different perspective, one that crime statistics doesn’t account for.
“We don’t call the cops anymore. It doesn’t make sense. They don’t come,” he said.
And shoplifters, he added, seem to be catching on.
“They know the police will not come,” he said. “If they do come, they’re just going to get a ticket.”
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28 Jun 2020 - 12:56:10 PM
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Why were marches immediately organized to counter and silence pro-POTUS rally[s] and/or events?
Why were marches immediately organized which divided people into sex/gender, race, [ism]?
When you control the levers of news dissemination, you control the narrative.
Control of the narrative = power
When you are blind, what do you see?
They want you divided.
Divided by religion.
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