The last few months, I have read of the shoplifting going on in New York City and around the country almost daily in The Post (“Hamburglar,” Feb. 9).

With no consequences or end in sight, some stores have decided to close because of the losses they have been incurring on a daily basis.

Most of this crime has been in minority communities. I bet in a year or two, after these businesses close their doors, we will hear about how these same minority communities are being underserved.

Tom Vespo

Bethpage

If they were to remake “Baretta” and film in New York City, they’d have to change the words to the theme song from “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” to “Go do the crime because you’ll serve no time.”

Kathryn Ruskin

Boynton Beach, Fla.

The shoplifter who walked out of a Manhattan store with an armful of stolen beef without being stopped epitomizes the anarchic depths to which this country’s cities have fallen.

Emboldened by Democratic legislatures with mindless no-bail laws and progressive prosecutors who refuse to prosecute crime, criminals feel free to rob, assault, rape and kill with impunity.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins’ sole response is to cite misleading statistics and assert that cash bail “unfairly” impacts minority suspects.

What she and other Democrats are saying is that the only way to ensure “equity” is to eliminate accountability for committing crimes — which leaves our cities in a state of anarchy, chaos and violence. This is not leadership, it’s insanity.

Marc E. Kasowitz

Manhattan

Obviously, the steak shoplifter who stole 10 steaks from Trader Joe’s is not listening to Mayor Adams.

Adams wants New Yorkers to eat a “plant-based” diet, albeit with fish once in a while. Now when a New Yorker gets mugged, beaten or shot at least they’ll be thin and healthy.

J.J. Levine

Miami Beach, Fla.

Once again the illogical idiocy of woke-justice rears it’s head — John Jay College being it’s’ latest victim (“At DAs’ school of ‘not so hard’ knocks,” Feb. 6).

Future law-enforcement students hear that “no one should be defined by their bad conduct alone.”

Other nonsense being taught is that the job of a prosecutor is “not to ‘win’ cases” but to “promote safety, accountability, healing, trust and empowerment.”

As I understand it, these five attributes are enshrined in us by our parents and role models well before a prosecutor enters the picture.

The proof is in the pudding, as none of this “progressive” thinking has reduced crime. In fact, the numbers prove the opposite.

Uri Burstein

Fresh Meadows

I think it is unfair to imply that John Jay College is educating prosecutors to free criminals.

For many years, I have taught a course in criminal justice for human service workers at New York City College of Technology (CUNY).

Many of my students have applied to John Jay for an advanced degree.

I never preached the gospel of defunding the police or bail reform.

I taught my students to think critically and rationally with an eye on being just and fair. The goal of any professor is to educate, not indoctrinate.

Martin Garfinkle

Staten Island

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