{"id":407526,"date":"2022-02-19T05:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T02:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aocs-shoplifting-myth-vs-real-harm-on-the-poor\/"},"modified":"2022-02-19T05:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T02:29:52","slug":"aocs-shoplifting-myth-vs-real-harm-on-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aocs-shoplifting-myth-vs-real-harm-on-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"#AOC\u2019s shoplifting myth vs. real harm on the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#AOC\u2019s shoplifting myth vs. real harm on the poor<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once again constructs a Dickensian fantasy world where every criminal is a saint, and every police action unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s much easier to frame people who steal baby formula and medicine as monsters to be jailed than acknowledge our politics and economic priorities create conditions where people steal baby formula to survive,\u201d she tweeted in response to the NYPD arresting 12 shoplifters in The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>That is of course not the truth. Single mothers stealing diapers and formula are not the drivers of increased shoplifting. Does she really think New York\u2019s progressive DAs and judges would even prosecute such a case? No, they\u2019d steer the woman to any one of the dozens of government programs intended to help poor parents \u2014 the WIC supplemental nutrition program, SNAP, food assistance, and that\u2019s just the federal programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, many of these cases are mass shopliftings, people who grab armfuls of popular goods to sell on the street and turn a black-market profit. The arrests she complained about were for $1,800 worth of household goods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These end up on blankets on street corners, on eBay, sold for a fraction of the price (because the cost was zero). Win, win, right AOC?<\/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\/2022\/02\/aoc-shoplifting-402.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A shoplifter.\" class=\"wp-image-21267899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/aoc-shoplifting-402.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/aoc-shoplifting-402.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/aoc-shoplifting-402.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Shoplifters destroy New York City\u2019s economy by forcing retailers to flee.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Except then the grocery stores and the pharmacies decide it\u2019s no longer worth having an outlet there and close. 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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once again constructs a Dickensian fantasy world where every criminal is a saint, and every police action unfair. \u201cIt\u2019s much easier to frame people who steal baby formula and medicine as monsters to be jailed than acknowledge our politics and economic priorities create&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":407527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/aoc-shoplifting-index.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125883,4997,4998,43,80389,5000,70804],"class_list":["post-407526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-18-22","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-crime","tag-editorial","tag-pharmacy","tag-progressives","tag-shoplifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}