BOB MCMANUS: Stopping thieves doesn’t need more acronyms — it needs arrests!

Shoplifters are stripping New York’s retail shelves all but bare these days, and fare-beaters are busting the MTA’s budget. But not to worry — City Hall has acronyms.

Gotham’s best and brightest have studied these problems for months now, and both City Hall and the MTA just coughed up proposed solutions.

The Adams administration offers PROP — the Precision Repeat Offender Program.

This will comprise a list of serial retail thieves and City Hall will be checking it twice — or three or four or five times, whatever it takes to avoid arresting anybody.

Then there is RESTORE — or Re-Engaging Store Theft Offenders and Retail Establishments, which explicitly is intended to protect shoplifters from consequences.

If the powers that be set out to deliberately undermine civilized society, what would they do differently?