Regular readers of this blog know that Miguel and I have been documenting the cities that have used the Coronavirus as an excuse to reduce arrests and let criminals out of jail.

In each instance, the news has been clear that this only applies to non-violent offenders.  The problem is that even a non-violent offense is still an offense and innocent people are hurt by them.

The New York Post now has data on the effect of this reduced policing of non-violent offenders during the Coronacrisis.

Commercial burglaries soar since coronavirus emergency measures

Who could have guessed that?

Anyone with a modicum of common sense, actually.

Commercial burglaries in New York City have risen 75 percent amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to data from the NYPD.

Police said 254 businesses have been targeted between March 12, the day a state of emergency order was issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio, and March 31.

This is up from the 145 burglaries recorded for the same time period last year, NYPD officials said.

“What we are seeing is that criminals are specifically targeting cash businesses, supermarkets and bodegas,” said NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri.

So much for protecting the working class and small business owners in New York City.  They are being preyed upon at an alarming rate.

The empty streets, curfews, lockdown, and lack of police have made it much easier for criminals to break into businesses and get away with it.

“The opportunities are in a different place. There’s a lot less happening during the day, for example a lot less trucks are getting robbed. The burglaries we are seeing now are more organized and specifically targeted. There’s much more night-time entry, more forced entry, individuals breaking locks to get into businesses while they are closed,” LiPetri said.

Forced entry into a store to steal all of the cash inside maybe technically be “non-violent” because someone wasn’t physically hurt, but it’s not a victimless crime, which is how bail reform advocates seem to portray it.

The next question is: how long until these non-violent crimes turn violent?

Such as if the owner of a bodega decides to spend the night in his store to keep it from being robbed, and the criminals who break in decide to hurt or kill him for his trouble.  We already saw something like that occur with disastrous results in Virginia.

This is only going to get worse given the circumstances.

We now have hard data to show how bad of a policy this lack of criminal enforcement is, I wonder if the politicians that pushed it will ever be held to account.