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Revolving Door: 327 Crooks Account for a Third of All NYC Shoplifting
Bob Hoge

When you read about crime in NYC, sometimes you get that feeling that half the city’s residents are criminals and tens of thousands of people routinely break the law. In the case of shoplifting, however, a very small number of cheats are actually to blame for an amazing percentage of the crime—in fact, 327 individuals are responsible for over a third of such thefts and have been arrested an outrageous 6,000 times.

The New York Times reports:

Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. Some engage in shoplifting as a trade, while others are driven by addiction or mental illness; the police did not identify the 327 people in the analysis.

Not only do a small number of robbers account for such a huge percentage, but they also tend to target a relatively small number of stores:

The victims are also concentrated: 18 department stores and seven chain pharmacy locations accounted for 20 percent of all complaints, the police said.

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https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/04/16/revolving-door-327-crooks-account-for-a-third-of-all-nyc-shoplifting-n732115
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Re: Revolving Door: 327 Crooks Account for a Third of All NYC Shoplifting
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2023, 10:28:03 pm »
Time for a "star chamber" of sorts to handle the problem and put them out of business.
Permanently.