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

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?

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. 

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. 

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