> Yes, there's blocks in the East Village where people are clearly selling stuff on the sidewalk they only recently stole from the nearby pharmacy/bodega/grocer

> Yes, there's blocks in the East Village where people are clearly selling stuff on the sidewalk they only recently stole from the nearby pharmacy/bodega/grocery. Who said that there wasn't? Prior to current history, people sold boosted goods out of the back of cars or in the back of the same bodegas. > The recent double stabbing near 14th & 1st was a mentally ill guy in a drug deal dispute in which he was paying via stolen merchandise. People interviewed described him as a regular who would barter his stolen goods for whatever he needed (in the NYT before someone accuses me of reading the wrong sources). This still is not a brazen robbery, so it doesn't address what I said at all. Addicts have been fighting and killing each other in this city for literally decades.