Eric Adams’ Solution to NYC’s Shoplifting Problem? Informational Kiosks…

Crime, crime, crime…

The headlines are full of the stuff, and none of the brilliant people in charge of America’s major cities seem terribly concerned about it. Don’t think I find this surprising… just disappointing. What else is new?

Am I the only one who feels like it would soften the blow (ever so slightly) if our “leaders” actually put a little thought into their solutions? As opposed to offering us the same bullsh*t taglines we’ve heard for who knows how long, it sounds like a nice change up…

Well… if creativity’s what you’re looking for, have I got the story for you…

From the Daily Wire:

New York City is having a bit of trouble with repeat retail crime offenders, but Mayor Eric Adams’ latest soft-on-crime approach to solving the problem is downright laughable.

Per Fox 5, retail theft in general jumped 44% in 2022 in NYC. The crisis is so bad that Adams even mandated that masks should be taken off to enter stores — the opposite of the COVID days — to help reduce this sort of crime.

It apparently didn’t work because now he has a new plan, one that he says is top-notch.

“This plan will help us invest in diversion programs and in underlying factors leading to retail theft, work upstream to stop some of the factors leading to a crime before one takes place, trains retail workers in de-escalation tactics and security best practices, and takes numerous actions to increase necessary enforcement against repeat shoplifters and deter organized crime rings perpetrating these thefts,” he said.

According to Fox 5, the plan “includes giving first-time offenders intervention programs instead of prosecution, de-escalation training for retail employees, establishing neighborhood retail watch groups to share information about a theft in real-time with one another and the police, and installing kiosks in stores to connect would-be thieves with social service programs.”

Ah yes… I can see it now. Just imagine the employees at the local Walgreens trying to deter a guy from swiping $900 worth of products by pointing him in the direction of the nearest social services kiosk. If there are any Walgreens left, anyway…

What’s next? Dressing up state workers to look like drug dealers in San Fran and offering the clientele a “Love Yourself” pamphlet when they’re looking for their crack fix? That sounds fun.

Pretty sure an informational kiosk is gonna make exactly zero difference here, but hey… at least it’s something new. It’s still bullsh*t, so you’re still getting that whiff of “never gonna work,” but it’s got a new shine.