…when it is the extreme anti-police, anti-law enforcement ideologues the Washington Post supports and slants the news to assist that are the reason shoplifting is out of control in D.C. and other cities.

The photo above that accompanies the laughable Post editorial shows the infamous CVS Pharmacy at 14th and Irving streets NW. There, in recent months, roving mobs of thieves have staged “smash and grab” mass raids resulting in the store having empty shelves and the local neighborhood having little access to needed supplies. “Shoplifters ransacked this CVS over two days early last month, and it hasn’t been restocked since,” the concerned editorial board wrote. “Weeks later, there’s still hardly anything to buy — or steal. The CVS at 14th and Irving symbolizes extreme retail theft and the harms it can engender. Distressing and inconvenient to ordinary people, threatening to businesses and livelihoods, and repellent to tourists, unchecked shoplifting can corrode a community’s spirit.”

The Post, which has never uttered a metaphorical “boo” regarding its woke, black Democratic mayor directing a huge, block letter “Black Lives Matter” message to be painted on a downtown street two years ago, is engaging in outrageous hypocrisy. “Black Lives Matter,” of course, means “Police Beware” and “Enforce the Law At Your Own Risk.” In related news, the Supreme Court today turned down Derek Chauvin’s last ditch appeal to get his unfair trial declared what it was; I’m assuming they don’t need the grief. They have to work in D.C. after all.

The Post editorial, incredibly, chides CVS for its response to the lawlessness the Woke Wevolution has become status quo in our large cities. “How do you fight shoplifting? Not by locking down everything in CVS” the sage Post hypocrites intone. What should CVS do instead (Incidentally, stop making me defend CVS!) to reverse a 22% increase in the crime since 2022? This, sayest the editors:

• Follow “a new federal law, the Inform Consumers Act, that requires online marketplaces to better track where third-party sellers get their merchandise…” Brilliant! That will make online prices higher, causing more pain to law-abiding consumers who can’t get what they need at CVS.
• Support Mayor Bowser’s  proposed a new law making it a felony to punish “organized retail theft” with a penalty of up to 15 years in prison. Since the police aren’t catching disorganized shoplifters, I wouldn’t put a lot of faith in them suddenly arresting organized thieves. Bowser, a rank incompetent (Black Lives Matter!), is engaging in classic “Do somethingism.”
• Support Bowser’s wacky proposal that prosecutors be allowed to charge thieves with a felony if they steal 10 or more times in a 30-day period. I’m not kidding: not only has Bowser suggested that, but the Post’s editors think its a good suggestion! Stealing 9 times in a month isn’t worth arresting someone for, but ten, now that’s a serious crime. How would police keep track of when the 30 days stops running?  This might catch on, though: a cumulative limit on beatings, heroin sales, carjackings—I like it! I know D.C. thugs will like it.
• “Occasional, but unpredictable, bursts of strict enforcement can deter shoplifters at minimal cost to police.”

In non-fantasy land, where the editors apparently don’t visit, the real reason for the empty shelves is that CVS justifiably has given up, and police don’t dare risk their lives, reputations and livelihood by trying to enforce laws in a city where a majority of the public hates them and a large segment of that public is less than six degrees of separation from one of the regular looters. CVS corporate headquarters says that police do not pursue cases when CVS reports them, and when a mob ransacks the store, what are police supposed to do anyway? This is a community that has adopted a warped culture that stealing from those racist white people is ethical. That culture needs more than surprise raids to reverse itself.

Even if police do make an arrest, it usually doesn’t lead to prosecution. The District’s U.S. attorney, Matthew M. Graves, has refused to prosecute 56 percent of cases in the past fiscal year. After all, Mayor Bowser says that “over-incarceration” is a marker of systemic racism.

The Post thinks that CVS should have fully stocked shelves with few items behind locked glass so it will be more convenient for disorganized, just a few times a month shoplifters to take what they want. Good plan.