150 Arrests and He Still Walks: How NY Laws Push Criminals to Grow Worse
17th August 2026
Thanks to “criminal-justice reform,” you can rack up almost 150 arrests in this town and still get to walk when caught again.
Meet career crook Shaquan Seth, cut loose last week after five, count ’em five, shoplifting busts in Queens — less than six days after he got out of Rikers after a five-month stint for previous thievery — because New York law forbids cash bail for offenses like Seth’s.
No matter that he was no sooner back on the streets than he was eagerly reoffending, nor that he stole $600 worth of fancy candles, when the no-bail believers insist such theft is mostly out of need, like Jean Valjean.
No matter that he threatened to shoot a young female clerk who was brave enough to try stopping him.
He was put right back on the street.
So you’ll be reading about Shaquan Seth again in these pages; we hope it’s not because he’s made good on his promise to shoot someone.
August 17th, 2026 at 08:36
Shaquan? Is that Irish? He must be old-order Mennonite or something, right? One of those old-German religious cults that gives their kids names from the olde-country?
Damned Amish and their Rumspringer?