<p>Readers of a certain age will remember the &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxky51fxCg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artful Dodger</a>&#8221; — the beloved pickpocketer from &#8220;Oliver Twist&#8221; with a penchant for making a pretty penny off unsuspecting passersby on the streets of London.</p>
<p>As his name suggests, he was rather clever as he evaded getting caught by his victims and the coppers.  Well, suffice it to say, modern America&#8217;s ruffians aren&#8217;t anything like that.  They are much more in your face without a care in the world if anybody sees them break the law. For example, consider the recent &#8220;flash mob&#8221; style ransacking of a seafood restaurant in Queens, New York.</p>
<p>Last Saturday night, a group of 20 suspected teenagers rampaged through the Fish Village restaurant in College Point, Queens, causing $20,000 in damages in under a minute. The harrowing scene can be witnessed below:</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Wild video shows teens ransack Queens restaurant" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lj9i4R5M9O8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>As of press time, no arrests have been made in this case and police are looking for suspects.</p>
<p>Yet as highlighted by Fox 5 New York, &#8220;there are plenty within this community who are wondering, even when those who are responsible are found, what sort of consequences they will actually face?&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed, thanks to a 2019 bail reform law, shoplifters and other ne&#8217;er-do-wells like the ones featured in the video often go unpunished or are given a slap on the wrist before returning to the streets. Now, even Democratic lawmakers are calling for changes to state law.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s utterly ridiculous that a small subset of career criminals make up 30% of shoplifting arrests in 2022,” City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) recently told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/lawmakers-express-outrage-over-nycs-revolving-door-shoplift-crisis-thats-killing-local-businesses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. The paper noted that Holden cited statistics that the New York Police Department which showed &#8220;that 327 career crooks were busted a total of about 6,600 times.&#8221;</p>
<p>“We can’t have this revolving door of criminality in our state — it’s time to dust off the successful tactics from the ’90s in New York City, which actually worked to reduce crime,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has been <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-says-shoppers-in-masks-are-hiding-from-cops-not-covid-and-should-be-barred-from-stores/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to request</a> that individuals <em>take off </em>their masks when entering establishments to help reduce crime — quite a contrast to the days of COVID.</p>
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<p>Assemblywoman Inez Dickens (D-Harlem) also expressed her dismay at the utter shamelessness of punks these days.</p>
<p>“You have to have some common sense reasoning. There need to be some changes,” she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I went into a fish store the other day and someone just walked in and stole the biggest fish and walked out,&#8221; Dickens explained. &#8220;I thought it was terrible.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is unclear if Harlem&#8217;s Dickens is related to the late Charles Dickens, but suffice to say, he&#8217;d be mortified as well. Artful Dodgers these thieves are not — but when the police don&#8217;t care, why even bother going to that effort if you are hellbent on crime?</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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