New York City and the Shoplifting Tsunami

Is anyone shocked that crime is out of control? Man steals 2 bags of electronics, food from NYC Target: NYPD

The crook snatched electronics, pharmacy items and food, stuffing the pilfered goods into a pair of duffel bags, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

“He displayed a box cutter to security and then fled,” she added.

This is only the latest incident.

The big-box heist comes amid a shoplifting spree across the Big Apple that have left shelves bare at stores like CVS, Walgreens and Rite-Aid.

The previous story on the topic, which is where the title to this post comes from was from about a week ago. ‘Third World’ NYC drug store shelves empty amid shoplifting surge.

Thanks to a citywide shoplifting tsunami, bare necessities are now rare luxuries on drug-store shelves across New York City.

“It looks like the Third World,” bemoaned one Manhattan resident, after eyeing the aisles of a CVS on Sixth Avenue in Soho desperately low of toothpaste, face wash and hand sanitizer, among a long list of other items.

“They’ve all been stolen,” a CVS employee told The Post.

Prosecutors who refuse to hold people accountable. Politicians who cut the police budget, and the number of police, and who hang cops out to dry at the drop of a hat. Witness the result. The breakdown of the rule of law.

And the bail reform law enacted by the State of New York isn't helping.

The blame goes straight to the halls of power in Albany, said New York City top cop Dermot Shea.

“Insanity,” the police commissioner tweeted last week.

In the words of Commander Scott...

Hold on tight Lassie; it gets bumpy from here.