I forgot about this. It's not just NY city that has these issues, in SF they downgraded shoplifting to a misdemeanor and so combined with a lack of bail laws, people just walk into stores and clear them out.
We'll get at least 100 days of consecutive protests in Portland and a Democrat cannot cope with New York city's budget problems, so it's just going to keep getting worse in these places. Stuff is like out of an 80's or 90's movie.
It's also crazy stuff like this becoming commonplace that made Russia support Putin with 80% margins and so-on. The next generation is not going to want to see any of this stuff being normal even if heavily medicated Boomers and Millennials are OK with it.