…but I understand the sentiment. Here in NYC we have organize retail theft ring members as well as assorted homeless and other opportunists walk out of drugstores and supermarkets with large garbage bags full of stolen goods, sometimes several times a day. All items are then resold online or in shady stores / sidewalk “stores” for profit. Store employees are forbidden to intervene, cops do absolutely nothing (partially due to insane Alvin Braggs rules and the fact that all offenders will be out on the street to re-offend before police can fill out the paperwork). The result is stores going out of business, everything is locked up behind anti-theft plexiglass but there aren’t enough employees to come and unlock every little item, so even if the store manages to stay in business the shopping experience for normal customers has turned to crap. Also, all that “inventory attrition” gets added back into prices as markup, of course, so I can subsidize the criminal lifestyle in multiple ways. Anyway, blast away and tell me how the poor unfortunates are victims of circumstance and a disadvantaged upbringing and all that … even if you are right the quality of life for law abiding citizens here in NYC has gone to hell due to lawlessness in many forms (theft, roving dirt bike mobs, criminally insane in the subway, bla bla bla).
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