{"id":372588,"date":"2021-11-26T01:03:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T22:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/spike-in-smash-and-grab-attacks-means-bad-news-for-shoppers\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T01:03:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T22:03:59","slug":"spike-in-smash-and-grab-attacks-means-bad-news-for-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spike-in-smash-and-grab-attacks-means-bad-news-for-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Spike in smash-and-grab attacks means bad news for shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Spike in smash-and-grab attacks means bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> for shoppers<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Black Friday is famous for its Christmas sales and packed stores, but if the surge in retail theft \u2014 brazen attacks by flash mobs \u2014 continues, there soon might be no stores left to pack.<\/p>\n<p>Places like Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago are seeing waves of \u201csmash and grab\u201d raids, leading some shops to simply shut down. The looters break windows, flood stores, beat and pepper-spray employees and make off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in goods.<\/p>\n<p>In Walnut Creek, Calif., near San Francisco, a mob of 80 stormed a Nordstrom on Saturday, attacking employees and grabbing merchandise by the armful. A day earlier, a mob hit San Francisco\u2019s Union Square, targeting 10 retailers. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s Magnificent Mile shopping district likewise has endured skyrocketing theft, including a robbery of a Neiman Marcus just last week by <em>three carloads <\/em>of perps. Vacant stores now make up a long stretch of North Michigan Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>This is on top of massive shoplifting (basically decriminalized for small amounts in California) that has retail chains closing outlets by the dozen in Golden State cities.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the San Francisco DA charged nine suspects with felonies for shoplifting worth more than $1 million \u2014 yet they\u2019re a fraction of those involved. Fact is, with police overwhelmed, woke prosecutors refusing to make such crimes a priority and criminal penalties heavily reduced, looters (and the crime rings they work for) often face little or no consequences. Organized retail robbery has become a rational career choice.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/NordstromLA.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Suspects assaulted a security guard on their way to stealing an estimated $25,000 during a smash-and-grab theft at a Nordstrom store in Canoga Park, Los Angeles.\" class=\"wp-image-20273131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/NordstromLA.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/NordstromLA.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/NordstromLA.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Suspects assaulted a security guard on their way to steal an estimated $25,000 during a smash-and-grab theft at a Nordstrom store in Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">abc7<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gotham, for its part, has been lucky \u2014 so far: Aside from last year\u2019s rioting after the  George Floyd killing, it\u2019s been spared smash-and-grab outbreaks. Yet stores here, too, have seen a tidal wave of thefts, with more than 26,000 shoplifting cases through September alone, the most to that point in the 26 years the numbers have been tracked.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, The Post reported that 22-year-old Isaac \u201cMan of Steal\u201d Rodriguez had been arrested 46 times for retail theft <em>this year, <\/em>and quickly released each time. The National Retail Federation ranked New York City fourth in \u201corganized retail crime\u201d among top metro areas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A shoplifter is captured on video pedaling his way out of a San Francisco Walgreens after stuffing numerous items in a garbage bag.\" class=\"wp-image-20273133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/San-Francisco.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A shoplifter is captured on video pedaling out of a San Francisco Walgreens after stuffing numerous items in a garbage bag.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">@LyanneMelendez<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not just businesses that suffer: Shoppers, too, lose out when stores close, and face higher prices because remaining retails must cover losses, insurance and security. Organized robberies now cost US retailers a whopping $65 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>Fueling these crimes is the same thing driving the spike in big-city murders: overreaching criminal-justice \u201creforms,\u201d police departments shrinking in the wake of the Defund the Police movement and progressives\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> anti-cop hostility.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/SoHoEmpty.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Shelves become empty inside a CVS on the Avenue of the Americas and Spring St. in Soho after numerous robberies on October 6, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-20273134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/SoHoEmpty.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/SoHoEmpty.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/SoHoEmpty.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Empty shelves seen last month inside a CVS in NYC after numerous robberies.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhy should a police officer waste time getting into an altercation when the person is not going to jail?\u201d asks Pete Eliadis, a former law-enforcement official and founder of Intelligence Consulting Partners.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn\u2019t change, get set to do all your shopping online \u2014 until criminals target that, too.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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