Uptick in stabbings and strongarm type robberies, especially using scooters South American style. They watch for tourists or partyers with Rolexes, etc....
The stabbings are much more deadly, it used to be face slashing and limb stabbings. Now it's a lot of throat stabbings.
They don't usually take over delis, gas stations, etc.... They'll just straight up mask up and stick a pistol in the clerk's faces. Boosters don't rape the small stores because they're usually the boosters's best customers. Ice cream, razor blades, detergents, etc..... all get sold to those stores in bulk.
When they do get taken over by the shoplifters, it's high school or middle school kids. That's been going on for decades.
The legal and illegal smoke shops have become a problem. Robbers, gangs fighting over protection payments, and general neer-do-well activity center around them lots now.
