NY Crime trumps COVID as businesses urged to have customers remove masks in stores

It seems as if everything goes full circle. Now that crime has surged in New York City, the coronavirus isn't such a big threat anymore. Now the NYPD in order to identify suspects, is asking businesses to require customers to remove their super-protective COVID-19 masks when they enter the stores because robberies have become rampant in the Big Apple.

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey spoke at a press conference last week saying that masks are making it possible for thieves to escape detection on video surveillance, according to local PIX 11.

Well, it's good to know heads have been removed from corresponding nether regions and people are realizing just how ridiculous masks are, and evidently have always been when it comes to coronavirus. All that masks accomplish is to give carte blanche to the bad guys.

"People are coming up to our businesses, sometimes with masks, sometimes masks, hoods and latex gloves, and they’re being allowed, they’re being buzzed in and allowed to enter the store and we have a robbery," Chief Maddrey said.

"We are asking the businesses to make this a condition of entry, that people when they come in, they show their face, they should identify themselves," the department chief continued.

Why no fingerprints?

Man randomly stabbed in Manhattan

Most businesses in the city wouldn't allow masked customers before the pandemic, Maddrey noted, because a lot of them steal stuff and walk right out the door, unabated. In fact, thieves were basically allowed to take up to $950 worth of merchandise without criminal charge. It was socialism at its finest.

"We need our businesses to be proactive and do their due diligence. We need to make sure people are identifying themselves," Maddrey said.

Mayor Eric Adams (D) bragged about how shootings have decreased by 17% last year, and murders fell 11% when compared to 2021. Unmentioned in the bragging was the fact that burglaries, robberies, felonious assaults, grand larceny, anti-Semitic and Asian attacks along with other criminal activity remained high, and thus an increase of such crimes climbed to 22% compared to 2021.

So yeah, there's that.

And something tells me that with the large influx of illegal aliens, crime is not coming down anytime soon.

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Baltimore seeks federal help as murders soar

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Baltimore's Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh is up to her liberal eyeballs in murders. "We are looking for all the help we can get," she said Monday. "As you know, our murder rate is up. Murder is out of control. Too many guns on our streets."

Of course, the guns on the streets she's referring to are illegal handguns, not "military style assault weapons," or legal guns in general, but you won't hear her say that publicly.

After the total failure of gun-control to stem the violence in the Democratic-led city, Pugh has asked the FBI and other federal agencies to help deal with the large increase in the murder rate.

Last year, 318 people were murdered in Baltimore; that's about one out of every 2,000 residents. In 2015, it was worse with 344 homicides. Already this year, Baltimore had 108 murders, four of which happened over this past weekend and the most in the city since 1993 when 110 people were murdered. (The city, however, had about 110,000 fewer residents that year.)

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So instead of handcuffing police as happened in the Freddy Gray incident in 2015 when then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gave people permission to riot, the new mayor wants to increase police effectiveness and even get assistance for them from the feds. 

According to the Baltimore Sun, violent crime has jumped by 23 percent in the city compared to last year. Gun-related crimes, such as homicides, robberies and shootings have all experienced double-digit increases.

Councilman Brandon Scott blames the violent repeat offenders who are "holding the city hostage" with more and more crimes. Perhaps if there were tougher consequences for violent crime, those violent repeater offenders wouldn't be able to repeat offending from prison. 

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