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Outraged NYC biz owners are fed up with Carl Heastie over refusal to crack down on violent shoplifters: ‘It’s open season’

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Published April 1, 2024, 6:45 p.m. ET

https://nypost.com/2024/04/01/us-news/biz-owners-rip-ny-assembly-speaker-heastie-over-refusal-to-beef-sentences-for-criminals/

Furious Big Apple business owners are tearing state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to shreds over his refusal to beef up penalties for violent shoplifters, with some raging, “It’s open season on retail workers.”

Heastie (D-Bronx) sparked widespread outrage last week when he shut down Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to toughen sentences for the criminals, bizarrely declaring, “I just don’t believe raising penalties is ever a deterrent on crime.”

“How do you deter crime except by penalty?” said an enraged Nelson Eusebio, who heads the National Supermarket Association and Coalition to Save our Supermarkets, to The Post on Monday.

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Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has come under fire from New York City business owners for refusing to support a law to increase penalties for violent shoplifters. AP Photo/Hans Pennink

“Our workers are on the front line dealing with shoplifters and criminals,” Eusebio said. “It’s open season on retail workers in the city.”