{"id":537313,"date":"2023-01-08T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-grocers-demand-clampdown-on-shoplifters-as-violent-heists-escalate\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:12:17","slug":"nyc-grocers-demand-clampdown-on-shoplifters-as-violent-heists-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-grocers-demand-clampdown-on-shoplifters-as-violent-heists-escalate\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC grocers demand clampdown on shoplifters as violent heists escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22c2884074e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22c2884074e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-grocers-demand-clampdown-on-shoplifters-as-violent-heists-escalate\/#%E2%80%9CNYC_grocers_demand_clampdown_on_shoplifters_as_violent_heists_escalate%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;NYC grocers demand clampdown on shoplifters as violent heists escalate&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNYC_grocers_demand_clampdown_on_shoplifters_as_violent_heists_escalate%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;NYC grocers demand clampdown on shoplifters as violent heists escalate&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Thousands of independent grocers across New York City are forming a fast-growing political coalition to demand that elected officials and law enforcement clamp down on shoplifters, claiming that increasingly brazen and violent heists have created a crisis, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The group \u2014 which already represents nearly 4,000 stores, including corner bodegas and supermarkets like KeyFood and C-Town in the New York metro area \u2014 is calling for prosecutors and judges to set bail for \u201crepeat theft offenders,\u201d reversing key provisions of New York\u2019s sweeping and controversial bail reform law in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Collective Action to Protect our Stores, or CAPS, is also asking lawmakers to make assaults on retail workers a Class D felony \u2014 a protection given to MTA and NYPD officers and livery drivers in New York that grocers argue they should receive as essential workers, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been assaulted, terrorized, and our physical and mental health jeopardized,\u201d the group said in a letter being sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams on Monday in addition to other city and state officials. \u201cA rise in larceny cases has hit independent supermarkets hard.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shoplifting-Haagen-Dazs.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ice cream in a cooler.\" class=\"wp-image-25270375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shoplifting-Haagen-Dazs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shoplifting-Haagen-Dazs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shoplifting-Haagen-Dazs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Haagen-Dazs pints are popular shoplifting items, grocers say.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">William Farrington for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group also wants legislators to tackle a problem that many believe is at the heart of the spike in burglaries: the fact that thieves are not typically prosecuted or arrested for stealing less than $1,000 worth of goods. CAPS is asking for a change in the law so that serial shoplifters who cumulatively steal more than $1,000 worth of goods over time will be charged with grand larceny instead of petit larceny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepeat offenders are the key words,\u201d Carlos Collado, who owns two Fine Fare grocery stores in the Bronx and Harlem, told The Post. \u201cWe are not asking for elevated charges for first-time offenders, but to send a message to those who make it a career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Businesses that resell stolen goods should likewise be put on notice, CAPS says in the letter, which asks Albany legislators to reclassify such transactions as Class A misdemeanors that could result in fines and even short jail time for operators.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/618278379\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode&amp;access_key=key-Jae0M6pnXAqfF6pPzhjZ\" data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_618278379\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Grocers regularly face brazen individuals who repeatedly come into their stores with backpacks and large shopping bags to steal items like Tide detergent, Red Bull energy drinks, Haagen-Dazs ice cream and steaks that they can quickly resell, as The Post has previously reported.<\/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\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-01-Collado-behind-the-counter.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Carlos Collado behind the counter in one of his stores.\" class=\"wp-image-25269645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-01-Collado-behind-the-counter.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-01-Collado-behind-the-counter.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-01-Collado-behind-the-counter.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Carlos Collado, who owns grocery stores in the Bronx and Harlem, has mostly given up on calling the cops when his stores are robbed.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNinety-seven percent of the shoplifters do it to sell the stuff,\u201d said Francisco Marte, who owns two bodegas in the Bronx and heads up the Bodega group. Very few are \u201cdoing it because they are hungry,\u201d Marte added.<\/p>\n<p>Among CAPS\u2019 initial members are the Bodega Small Business Group and its 3,000 members in NYC, Long Island and New Jersey; the National Supermarket Association along with its 600 store members, including the nearly 300 Key Food stores in New York. And the Metro Supermarket Association, which represents about 60 Korean grocers. The group has hired a lobbying firm, CMW Strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Many feel abandoned by NYPD and legislators alike. As The Post previously reported, a group of Latino supermarket owners who described themselves as longtime Democrats backed Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in the November election because of his hard stance on crime.<\/p>\n<p>CAPS members believe NYPD and New York District Attorney units could benefit from forming dedicated groups focusing on retail theft.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the NYPD said just 327 unrepentant crooks accounted for 30% of the Big <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le\u2019s 22,000 shoplifting arrests last year. That means the alleged recidivists got busted a total of about 6,600 times \u2014 for an average of more than 20 times each.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri added that \u201cabout half\u201d of the group were \u201cconvicted felons\u201d and that 235 of the 327 serial shoplifters \u201care walking around the streets of New York right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nallely Dejesus, whose family owns five grocery stores under the KeyFood banner in the Bronx, said supermarkets are in a bind over whether to tell employees to try catch shoplifters in the act and stop them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou become the go-to store in the neighborhood if you don\u2019t do anything,\u201d Dejesus told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, however, she said her brother \u2014 after thwarting a would-be meat burglar four times in the Bronx location he managed \u2014 saw the thug barge into the store wielding a shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother ran to the back of the store where we have a storage room and the customers who were in the aisle ran with him for safety,\u201d Dejesus said. \u201cAll the customers [at the checkout counters] were on the floor \u2014 movie style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police didn\u2019t show up until an hour later, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost business after that,\u201d Dejesus said. \u201cBecause who wants to go to a store where someone walked in with a shotgun?\u201d<\/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\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-02-collado-and-Zeldin-signs.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Carlos Collado standing by a Lee Zeldin sign on his store.\" class=\"wp-image-25269695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-02-collado-and-Zeldin-signs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-02-collado-and-Zeldin-signs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/carlos-collado-02-collado-and-Zeldin-signs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A group of Hispanic grocers, who\u2019d always voted for democrats, supported Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lee Zeldin, last year because of his stance on crime.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Collado said it\u2019s \u201cmaybe in the past eight months\u201d that he and fellow supermarket operators, exhausted from a lack of law enforcement, \u201cstarted feeling like it\u2019s useless to call the cops.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes now we catch them and we don\u2019t even bother calling NYPD unless it results in a violent aggressor,\u201d Collado said. \u201cWe don\u2019t even hear from the DAs. 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