Carlos Collado, who owns grocery stores in the Bronx and Harlem, has mostly given up on calling the cops when his stores are robbed.“Ninety-seven percent of the shoplifters do it to sell the stuff,” said Francisco Marte, who owns two bodegas in the Bronx and heads up the Bodega group. Very few are “doing it because they are hungry,” Marte added.
On Thursday, the NYPD said just 327 unrepentant crooks accounted for 30% of the Big Apple’s 22,000 shoplifting arrests last year. That means the alleged recidivists got busted a total of about 6,600 times — for an average of more than 20 times each.NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri added that “about half” of the group were “convicted felons” and that 235 of the 327 serial shoplifters “are walking around the streets of New York right now.
“My brother ran to the back of the store where we have a storage room and the customers who were in the aisle ran with him for safety,” Dejesus said. “All the customers [at the checkout counters] were on the floor — movie style.”“We lost business after that,” Dejesus said. “Because who wants to go to a store where someone walked in with a shotgun?”
If you vote Democrat stop complaining. You caused it
NYC Elected a Self Proclaimed Law and order Mayor who took Office in January 2022. On December 15th 2022 he announced he will START 'Brain Storming' Organized Retail Theft.
They voted democrat! Deal with it
The time to demand that was on election day. Now you're getting what you voted for.
Good luck with that. As long as the Dems are in charge it ain't happening!! And you can't buy a gun to defend yourself either. Start selling Amazon and Shopify. Don't move to Florida. It's full !!
The owner is racist. How does he expect these criminals to survive. Take his place away and send him to sensitivity training. This can’t happen.
Consumers are the ones paying for all this shoplifting as grocers now start passing the losses into higher prices!!
Not with this major….
You mean letting people break the law has led to more brazen acts? Who could have predicted this?
Stop voting Dem, then.
Tell them to stop voting Democrats in
Lmfao start paying attention to who you vote for
Between Schumer, Jeffries, Nader, AOC, Hochul and Adams NY doesn't have a chance.
they voted overwhelmingly democrat, this is what you get
Groceries are to expensive in POTUS woke America
How did they vote? Every story like this should cover this question with a follow up, how will you vote going forward?
Love my City 🏙️🫶
In NYC you all voted yourselves right out of business.
Time to let the civilians arm up to deal with the uncaged animals
...shape of things to come ✔