{"id":2747,"date":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/former-professional-shoplifter-rips-nycs-plans-social-service-kiosk-dont-think-batted-eye\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"former-professional-shoplifter-rips-nycs-plans-social-service-kiosk-dont-think-batted-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/former-professional-shoplifter-rips-nycs-plans-social-service-kiosk-dont-think-batted-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Former professional shoplifter rips NYC's plans for social service kiosk: 'Don't think I'd have batted an eye'"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former professional shoplifter panned New York City’s plans to install social service kiosks in stores to incentivize shoplifters not to steal. <\/p>\n
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Pierceon Bellemare said if he was shoplifting and saw a kiosk on the way out<\/u><\/a> the door, he wouldn\u2019t stop. <\/p>\n “If the kiosk provided fentanyl or money, I might stop. But if there’s a pamphlet for social services, I don’t think I would have batted an eye at that,” he explained on “Jesse Watters Primetime” this week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bellemare shared that he shoplifted because it fed his drug addiction and the lifestyle he was living. He added that if someone gave him a welfare check and a place to stay to incentivize him to stop the criminal behavior, he would find a way to work around the system and use the money to feed his addiction. <\/p>\n Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The former professional shoplifter spoke out against soft-on-crime policies, explaining that they don\u2019t work. <\/p>\n “I don’t think there’s a lot of places now where we are forcing detoxes in places where people can get the help that they need versus just a Band-Aid on a symptom that we’ve been seeing for decades,” he said. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n