DON SURBER: 327 who are above the law.

The New York Times story did not say what its editors and their flying monkeys thought it said.

The headline said, “A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts.”

OK, you don’t need a J-school degree to figure out the message sent. Not everyone in NYC is boosting $4,500 Louis Vuitton purses. It is just a few people. Whew. What a relief to know this.

The subheadline said, “Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in the city last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Businesses say they have little defense.”

You see? The looting is by just a few people.

The story said, “Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. Some engage in shoplifting as a trade, while others are driven by addiction or mental illness; the police did not identify the 327 people in the analysis.”

You see? They are just crazy or on drugs.

That was the message NYT meant to send.

The story, however, is you can rob stores dozens of times and get away with it. My question is why don’t more people in NYC just rob stores blind every day? I mean, come on people. If 327 people can get caught 6,000 times and get away with it, what is stopping 8 million people from looting Tiffany’s every morning and Macy’s every afternoon.

New York’s looters are also largely above the law, as well: Andy Ngo: Who funds Antifa protests? We all do. “Last year, New York City agreed to pay tens of thousands to [National Lawyers Guild] members arrested in the Bronx in June 2020…The second most-asked question I’m asked is if mass far-left riots will erupt again. I can’t predict when but the answer is yes. The systems that provide legal, social and financial incentives to far-left extremists, no matter how violent they are, have become better funded following 2020.”