You would need to be living under a rock if you are unfamiliar with videos showing people with guns robbing stores, groups of brazen shoplifters entering supermarkets and high end retail outlets exiting with designer bags, Apple computers, jewelry, robbing people in the streets, stealing their cars, etc.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said last week that his administration will need more time to get a handle on crime in the city after major crime increased 36.5 percent in March compared to 2021. The NYPD said Wednesday that homicides in the city fell, but robberies and burglaries both increased by 48.4 percent...
American retailers continue to be plagued by the relatively new phenomenon of brazen, organized retail thefts, often characterized as “smash and grabs” and carried out by “flash mobs.” This crime wave has already caused the Walgreens drug chain to close down a number of its stores in San Francisco—see “COVID CRIME WAVE SPIKES, DRUG STORES...