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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/nyc-shopkeeper-robbed-twice-by-marauding-   
   bandits/   
      
   Kenneth Giddon has co-owned Rothmans men’s clothing store in Manhattan   
   with his brother Jim Giddon for 36 years. Last month the shop in Union   
   Square was robbed twice by marauding smash-and-grab gangs who terrorized   
   employees and made off with thousands of dollars in merchandise. An   
   undaunted Kenneth Giddon tells The Post’s Dean Balsamini that Manhattan DA   
   Alvin Bragg and other NYC pols might be giving up on crime, but he will   
   never surrender to thieves and thugs.   
      
   My store on 18th Street and Park Avenue South was ransacked/robbed by the   
   same group of young men, twice in the last three weeks of December. I am   
   not quite sure what the term is when a gang of thieves (five the first   
   time, eight the second time) brazenly tears apart a store, assaults an   
   employee, and grabs as much merchandise as they can carry out. They were   
   not particularly troubled by their actions, and figured a repeat   
   performance, since there were no repercussions, was a good idea.   
      
   I have a range of emotions. I am embarrassed that we let it happen,   
   especially twice, although I know that is somewhat irrational. I feel   
   violated that something that we spent so much time creating, curating and   
   making beautiful for our loyal customers can be torn up in a few minutes.   
   I also feel guilty that I was not there to protect my team, or change the   
   outcome in any way.   
      
   For the first time in over three decades of owning my store, I stay up   
   nights trying to process what this means for my business, and ultimately,   
   the city that I love.   
      
   We called the police both times, but the group was long gone before any   
   help could arrive. We have moved forward to enhance our security, and the   
   police have been very good about adding patrols and coverage in our area.   
      
   The responding officers were professional and sympathetic. They said it   
   was happening all over the city, but their message was very clear: Do not   
   engage, the perpetrators probably have weapons, and even if you stop them,   
   or we arrest them, nothing will happen. You will waste your time in the   
   system, and they will not be penalized. So where does that leave us?   
      
   The cops said, ‘We are going to catch these guys … but don’t expect these   
   guys to do time.” That’s disheartening.   
      
   I am not an expert on criminal justice or reforms. I am just a guy that   
   sells pants.   
      
   NY State bail reform, while well intentioned, has been very bad for New   
   York City. Too many people that should be incarcerated are not. The   
   ability of perpetrators to rob my store, get arrested, and come back the   
   next day to do it again, tears at the fabric of this city.   
      
   I like the message that new mayor Eric Adams delivered.   
      
   However, that message was undercut by the subsequent memo by DA Bragg that   
   he would reduce charges on a number of crimes. I know he wasn’t the DA at   
   the time of our incidents. But the memo was a punch in the gut.   
      
   DA Bragg needs to realize that perception is reality. If New Yorkers feel   
   unsafe, the city will struggle to come back. If criminals feel that law   
   enforcement is lax, they will commit more crimes.   
      
   My employees are like family to us. They build their careers with us. No   
   one should have to go to work thinking they might be involved in an   
   assault that day.   
      
   DA Bragg was elected to enforce the laws, not choose which ones he wants   
   to enforce.   
      
   Not protecting businesses is essentially a regressive tax on retailers:   
   economic loss coupled with additional security costs and higher insurance   
   premiums. Shoplifting and gang thefts are rising dramatically in NYC. Bail   
   reform, and lesser prosecution enable criminals to go back to what they do   
   best, many times on the same day, emboldened and without missing a beat.   
      
   But we are not giving up.   
      
   Rothmans has survived 9/11, Superstorm Sandy, the 2008 financial crisis,   
   the pandemic and looting during the riots. In fact, we just opened another   
   store on Ninth Avenue. So we are in for the long run.   
      
   I’m encouraged by the fact that the DA heard of our plight and reached out   
   to me directly this week. We had a constructive conversation and discussed   
   a formation of a task force of retailers and law enforcement experts to   
   deal with the situation.   
      
   We believe that the Mayor and the DA need to, and eventually will, get on   
   the same page about law and order. Then we can just get back to what we do   
   best — selling clothes to New Yorkers.   
      
   We will go to work today, still loving, but sometimes hating, the greatest   
   city in the world.   
      
      
      
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