People Who Shoplift at CVS Shouldn’t Be Prosecuted, Says Sex and the City Actress Nixon
Friday, May 28, 2021
Actress and politician Cynthia Nixon made waves this week when she Tweeted she would rather have people steal from CVS stores than see them prosecuted.
Nixon, best known for her role on the HBO series Sex and the City and then for her failed 2018 gubernatorial bid in New York, Tweeted the comments about the stores owned by the Woonsocket, Rhode Island headquartered corporation this week.
“The CVS on my corner has started locking up basic items like clothing detergent,” Nixon Tweeted. “As so many families can’t make ends meet right now, I can’t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them."
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Reaction was swift — and vocal.
“Worth noting that several candidates for Manhattan DA (and for NYC Mayor) say shoplifting should not be prosecuted because that’s ‘criminalizing poverty,’” Tweeted Errol Louis, the host of Inside City Hall, in response.
“I grew up poor, and we never took anything that we hadn't paid for. It's insulting that you think the less fortunate have no ability to discern right from wrong. Also, allowing widespread theft will result in higher prices, punishing the poor and honest,” wrote Twitter user “LynnM.”
“You live in a neighborhood of $3 million-dollar apartments and townhouses. No one at your CVS is ‘desperate’ to steal ‘basic necessities,” wrote user “A New Radical Centrism.” “This isn't just moral grandstanding on your part, it's really incompetent moral grandstanding.”
Retail Theft Real Issue
On the west coast, retailwire.com reported this week that “organized theft is turning San Francisco in retail’s Wild West."
“Recent reports depict a battle going on in San Francisco between retailers and organized retail crime, and the thieves are winning so convincingly that stores are closing their doors rather than trying to keep up a losing fight,” George Anderson reported.
“The New York Times reports that the city’s board of supervisors heard last week from representatives of Walgreens who said that the number of thefts at its San Francisco locations was four times that of the average for the chain across the U.S. The drugstore giant has closed 17 stores in recent years, largely as the result of being unable to curtail profit-destroying thefts," he continued.
CVS did not respond to request for comment at time of publication.
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