New York City Mayor Eric Adams Tells Residents To Takeoff Masks To Show They Are Not Crooks To Get Their Facial Recognition To Work

The following report is by the New York Post:

Mayor Eric Adams wants the Big Apple’s retailers to make customers remove their masks in a bid to stem the ongoing shoplifting epidemic — but some merchants are wary of how they’re going to enforce that.

We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops: Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask. And then once they’re inside, they can continue to wear it if they so desire to do so.

Adams said Monday on 1010 WINS radio.

Adams said the move would help cops “use the technology we have available to identify those shoplifters and those who are committing serious crimes.”

When you see these mask-wearing people, oftentimes it’s not about being fearful of the pandemic. It’s fearful of the police catching them for their deeds.

He said.

When told his plan was “really putting the onus on the stores,” Adams said the NYPD was helping out by “beefing up our coverage in those BID [Business Improvement District] areas, those high-shopping areas, and we’re also beefing up our surveillance and practices.”

And we have something called ‘paid detail,’ where uniformed officers are allowed during their off-duty hours to do some of the security at many of our stores and locations.

It has always been successful. I recall, when I was a police officer, it being utilized, and we are calling on those high-end stores to also continue to do so.

NYPD Chief of Patrol Jeffery Maddrey — who suggested a similar unmasking plan last week — called the mayor’s proposal a “common-sense approach” during an unrelated news conference on Manhattan’s Upper East side.

It was also endorsed by Fernando Mateo of the United Bodega Workers of America, who said, “I back up the mayor 100%.”

COVID is over, let’s take the masks off. He’s not referring to grandma and grandpa or regular customers who come in. We are talking about criminals.

Mateo said.

But Francisco Mata of the rival Bodega and Small Business Group said Adams “should make it illegal to wear the masks now” and put the NYPD in charge of enforcement.

We cannot do that because two years ago, we tried to enforce people to wear the mask and people would not listen. It’s a good idea but we cannot enforce it.

He said.

A Brooklyn store owner whose business was recently robbed said Adams’ plan was “easy for him to say.”

What am I supposed to do? Ask every man, woman, kid who walks in to buy a juice to take their mask off?. So, they take the mask off — then they rob me. How am I supposed to be safe? I have to make a living. What am I supposed to do, close up shop?

The merchant said.

Law-enforcement sources also warned that the mayor’s idea could backfire on him.

If you tell one of these guys in the ‘hood who’s coming out to get a beer to take his mask off, he’s going to tell the bodega worker to shut up and beat the crap out of him. They should help these bodega owners with better cameras, plexiglass, panic buttons.

A veteran Bronx cop said.

A Manhattan cop also called Adams’ recommendation “just another desperate act by a desperate administration.”

What store owner or worker wants to have an unnecessary confrontation with a possible criminal? It is not worth it for them. The mayor should be worried about the people in Albany and try getting them to change the laws.

The cop said.

Last month, The Post exclusively revealed that desperate members of the 34th Street Partnership — which covers the Manhattan neighborhood that’s home to Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square — had hired a canine security company to take a bite out of crime there.

And in The Bronx, the Fordham Road Business Improvement District recently hired a team of five security guards to patrol the borough’s busiest shopping area from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday.

Retail thefts reached a record level for the second year in a row last year, with shoplifting complaints surging past 63,000 — a 45% spike over 2021 and nearly 275% more than during the mid-2000s.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[6] Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. [11] The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:6-11

Now that the Covid War is over even some of the biggest prognosticators of it are telling the stranglers to give a rest already. Literally, the Covid War is done-done, and Adams now has to wrangle in his Coronazis that are still out and about.

Masking your face would have made you look like a thief in years prior to 2020, but that was swept under the rug for the time being. In reality, however, it only represented how America and the world really are just full of a bunch of criminals these days who must hide their shame.

Last year The WP reported something similar to this in California.

SEE: California Store To Ban Face Masks After Fear Of Increased Robberies

But also just as if not more important, that Adams wants New Yorkers to take off the masks because it appears the city needs to better identify them. How quaint.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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